Dennis Bartlett:  

My retired life is busy with raising Arabian horses and enjoy it very much except for bucking hay bales which seem to be getting heavier each year ! Still training them but now I'm a little more cautious . Live in a beautiful area of Washington north of Spokane about 60 miles in the mountains . A ton of deer and turkeys are always around to get their rations and can be a pain . A bear or two in my garden most years , just yell at em' and they leave. Hope all of you are in good health and charging onward . At this stage of my life charging has been changed to a little better than a shuffle . Owned a couple of business's , one in Alaska gillnetting salmon for 25 years and one here in Wa. building marinas on the coast from Alaska to S.Ca. and miss both of them especially my fishing business in Alaska . Every day a new surprise , a few not so good but you take the good with the bad and the reason I kept going back . For the last couple of years I've been involved in setting up a County Assembly . With more and more Government intrusions into our lives it is up to the folks in stopping it ! Our Counties can stop every unconstitutional mandate and put them on notice . The U.N. is putting their plans into action on the American people through our elected and that needs to stop . We're teaching our methods all over the country and many feel it now necessary to fight the feds at every level . I'm losing almost ten acres to the EPA and dept. of Ecology because of my stream that runs through the property but will still have to pay tax's on it...Expand for more