Dave Frame:  

In grade school and jr high I had several friends, but in high school, I didn't hang around too much with anyone. For one thing, I was from Corn town. You either went to Hillhi or F.G. after Neil Armstrong. So I wasn't too close to people in h.s. I kinda regret not getting to know some of you a lot better. My loss. But the main thing that changed me was one day a man told me I was born on the wrong side of the tracks and I would never amount to anything. Ive spent my life proving that man wrong. Sometimes whenI felt he was winning, I would turn to the bottle for courage or sympathy or maybe just an excuse. Then I would get mad and start out to prove him wrong again. It took a long time to finally realize that it didn't matter what that man felt about me, it was his problem and not mine.In fact it wasn't all that long ago I decided that. But since then I've had an interesting time. I moved over here to Wyoming, looking for a drier climate. Found it(6" of rain a year). Held some interesting jobs. Worked in a sugar factory,that was cool. Worked at H &P aviation until they started having problems. They were taking some shortcuts on their repairs so I left. You might of heard about them. Their wings started falling off. I was an engine mechanic though, not a structure tech, and I can say that those engines ran all the way into the dirt. I did lose a friend. I've also met some very interesting people over here. The town I live in (Basin) claims to have (almost) more millionairs per capita than any where else in the states. Farmers and ranchers! But they're down to earth people. I live about 12miles from a movie star, Wilford Brimley, and he's pretty cool. Ate breakfast next to him once while he spun out one of his yarns, and he's pretty funny. I've been invited out to his place, but I haven't gone yet. Don't want to go when all his groupies are out there. Now I'm working at a farmer's co-op and dealing with the ranchers and farmers directly, which is pretty laid back but still interesting. After a life time of being a workaholic, I'm kinda enjoying a little 'laid back'. Just got a little boat I'm fixing up. Gonna go out this summer and try out some of these world class lakes around here that keeps attracting all those celebrities from California. Speaking of California, how come you Oregonians are letting them thru the borders. You are supposed to stop them from getting past! It's getting to the point to where we can't hardly stand on the porch and take a leak anymore without someone driving by and waving and honking. Sure spoils a person's aim, all that racket. Them people are crazy! They come over here on vacation and like it so they move over, then want to change it so it's like back home. The last I heard, we have almost 600,000 people in the state. You can't hardly drive 10 miles anymore without seeing someone. Of course we all do our part to help control the population. Five or six years ago, I was working in Yellowstone Nat'l Park for the summer (that was a dream job) and I would help the tourists get closer to the wildlife so they could get better pictures (that wasn't really my job) and if they were from California or New York we would give them free pork chops and show them where the bear cubs were. That was fun. Those people are stupid. You gotta have some really fast stop action film when you're being held up in the air and shaken by the buttocks. Oh, and just to let you know if you do come to the Park, when you wander amongst the buffalo, when they wag their tails, it does NOT mean they are happy. ButI can't blame them though, it really is beautiful. After watching the weather back there this week, I don't have many regrets for moving here. I'm much better now than I have been in a long time. I hope that I didn't say or do anything to anyone in school that affected them the way that man affected me. I really mean that. If I did, I'm sorry. I would really like to hear from anybody who wants to get in touch, even if you don't think we were that close in school. Who knows, if I learn how to boat without drowning and you have vacation time coming, I still have a cooler full of pork chops. If you want to get in touch directly, my email is xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Dave "Carebear" Frame I guess you have to get in touch with me thru here. they said I can't give out my email publicly. Carebear Well, it's almost April Dave's Day, and it looks like I get to see another spring time in the Rockies. Made it thru another winter with almost no damage. It was a pretty mild one except for two days when it decided to see if mercury would freeze. It hit 35 below zero. Ouch. We burned about a cord of wood that day. The neighbors were all out stealing each others dogs to put in their beds for foot warmers. I just lit the mattress on fire. Afterward, it warmed up to 10 degrees, and we all put on shorts and danced in the sunshine. Speaking of fools, I decided to get a couple baby calves this year, so now I have something to do in the dark before I go to work. I get to bottle feed them. My son is supposed to help, but I think he would rather sleep in sometimes. So to keep it interesting, I'm trying to teach the cows to do tricks like dancing and standing on their hind legs like lippazano stallions. My wife thinks I'm the perfect person to teach cows to dance. I'm not sure but I think there's an insult in there some where. Oh well, one of these days I'm gonna come up with a snappy comeback for that. I wish I could teach my horse some tricks,like standing still when I get on. I was gonna teach him to play dead, but Cindy hid all the bullets to my gun. When I first came over here, there was one old cowboy who had a great horse. He would ride to the bar, then send the horse back home. He only lived about a mile out of town. Well, he would drink three or four beers or ...Expand for more