Wade Clemons:  

Hi Strangers - did you miss me? After high school I floated from job to job for a few years as partying was the priority and going to work was only secondary. Funny how priorities change as you get older. In my early twenties my brother Mike convinced me to follow him to Columbus, Ohio with the promise that I would have a job working for an aerospace company when I got there, fortunately that didn't pan out and I returned to Renton. Within a few months of returning home in 1986 I met my future wife Colleen. We dated for 4 years, lived together 4 years, and then decided it would be best to get married because we had ended up with too many things in both of our names. This year we will celebrate our 15th anniversary. I call Algona home and have for about 20 years now; so I haven't moved real far from the Renton area. No kids at our house, just Colleen, me and the cat, along with lots of nieces and nephews that come for great visits. I have been driving dump truck for almost 15 years, it is a lot less strain on my back than the brick work, oven work, and welding shipping containers that I did for the years prior. We bought our first house in Algona about 15 years ago, and 3 years ago we bought the house next door to it and had a 30'x48' shop/garage built; most of the time it's our toy house, sometimes it's my doghouse, and then on occasion it becomes the party house, but the definition of partying has changed greatly in the last 30 years, now partying is limited to Bud Light in a can, however some weekends it can exceed 30 cans, but that is it for my "drug of choice". The word LANDLORD has been added to our resumes, as we decided to keep the old house, rent it out and hopefully someday use it as investment to retire with. To be honest I wanted to retire at the age of 50, the wife says "that ain't going to happen". There g...Expand for more