Michael Maples:  

CLASS OF 1978
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Colorado springs, CO

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Michael is from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Michael's schools include Harrison High School. Michael works(ed) at None - Disabled. Music Michael likes includes Country. TV shows Michael likes include Powerblock TV, Chuck Noris. One of Michael's favorite quotes is:"Is wait a :40,31 They that wait upon the LORD shall renew there strength shall mount up with wings a eagels; they shall run and not be weary: and they shall walk and not faint.". More about Michael:"The best thing I have done in my life is to bring my two boys into this world. My oldest son Christopher ( Chris ) manages a pawn shop, He has a six month old daughter as of December 2010. Her name is Haley Grace. He is a great father and his world revolves around her. He also is gifted in sales and electronics. He is hopeing to go back working in hydro excavation. Chris is 5ft7" and looks like me just shorter. My youngest Brandon the baby is 6ft4" and around 270lbs . He went to collage to be come an EMT and works in Cripple creek part time. His main job is with the USDA Wildlife DIV. he wants to go back to collage to get his Biolagy Deg to advance further with the USDA. He is married his wifes name Kate JO and she is finishing her nurses training she was going to become a cartolgest but that changed when they got married now looking to an LPN. They both have horses and are cowboy and cowgiirl. As for me I have gone back to my family roots and became a cowboy and will be till I die. I made my career in the Automotive Busness mostley for dealerships. I worked as a parts manager and service manager into a parts and service director for over thirty years. A lot of 12-14 hour days but I loved what I did. I had one ruel to work and live by due unto others as you would have done unto you. At age 46 I became disabeled with Degenrative Spine Disease and MS so on Feb 15 2004 it was like hiting a brick wall at 100 plus mph. I due volinteer work for the USDA Wild Life Div an opertunity to work with my son Brandon. I enjoy that a lot! I have always loved to working on cars, making them look better, making them faster, drag racing. I also like working on motercycles and for the last twenty years my first generation Ford liightning F150. I have plans for some major up grades in the near future twin turbo,s, mass air flow converson, 50# injectors and stroking my 351 to a 427 should be fast like my mavric back in the good old days. I have been married for 30 years this march 26 2011, To Laurice she has been a good wife puting up with me for this long. She is my best friend and I hers. Call me old fashond but I did not let her work when the boys were born because I did not want a stranger raising our boys. when the were older she went to beauty school and became a manager for a national chain og beauty stoers. She did well winning cruse trips and trips to mexico. now she is home with me she injored and had to have surgery on her back. So we spend a lot of time at home with our dogs or fishing when we can. We have a Min-pin, Rat Terrer mix, Jack Russel. Parsons Russel and a Rat Terrer. The Jack Russel is my best buddy hes is not a tipical Jack Russel he is not hyper at a...Expand for more
ll, he never leaves my side, If I have to be gone overnight he will not eat until I come home so if I can he goes with me, He loves to go in the boat and swim, He helps me when I get depressed due to the MS, My youngest son Brandon are working with the Jack Russel and the Parsons Russel to course so they can do some work at the airport keeping animals and birds off the runways, Helping to keep the runways safe, You should see the damage a bird can do to a plane, Last year a brown pingwin hit just below the wind screen on a small jet on take off and went all the way threw to the cockpit, My son had to take half the dash apart to identafy what kind of bird it was, Something that has to be done with any bird or animal strike with a plane, My hpoes are that my dogs can help pervent some of this, Branon has a Plott-Mountain curr mix that he uses now for this work plus a lot of other USDA work. MY only brother Dwane has been married to the sam girl Ronnie is doing fine, He works for Gorden Sign Co. for ever he is the general manager and has been for some time, He loves to hunt and fish, He lives almost to the contnental devide and has a long drive bu he loves liveing there and has just built a new house up there. My mom passe away on May-12-2009 she had been in insperation to me, She passed on her work ethec and her intestinal fortatude as she raised my brother andI mostley be herself, She had hurt her back early in her life and after many failed surgerys along with only one kidney she kept working nomater hoe she felt, She gave my brother and I a good life and we never wanted for anything, I Love her and it sadens me that she is gone and think of her everyday and even though she is gone but now she is in Heven with my dad and step father and her family wiyh a new body that no longer has to suffer in pain any more, This gives me peace and solis in knowing this she now sits at the right hand of GOD this i know as she also gave me a gift of knowing GOD and helped to lead me th christ and to eventuly a christion. Yes I am a born agan christion after liveing a life of sin, I made a lot of mistakes big ones but I know I will have to answer for then I know GOD has forgiven me, I still make mistakes as no one is perfect but I try to live my life as a better person and walk the walk and talk the talk. Hoping to move to a warmer climet no to warm because of MS but a lower altatude should help my wife and myself feel better as the cold is hard on both of us hoping to find a place in northern Florida with lots of lakes and the ocen and the gulf near by, I miss the gulf as we lived in Texas just 20 mile from the gulf, We spent everyday fishing in the gulf or lakes close by one of the best times in our marrage hope the move will bring back the good times we once had back then. This has been my life at least most of it of course I could wright a novel about my life all thought in this profile it looks like I have but there is a lot more but this is plenty. My life has been a rollercoaster ride and still is. I think it,s that way for every one. Take the good with the bad and it all works out or at least thats all we can hope for.".
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This is a picture of the motorhome at a RV park in South Padre, look at the flowers, they are everywhere.
Texas is a great country, the people are so nice, no matter where you go.
This is a picture of the marina where we are staying, you could make a fortune restoring boat,s here.
Today we are going fishing, it was stormy Saturday and rained pretty good last night, today sunny and a slight wind, if we are lucky, I will post pictures.
If you look hard you can see the darker spot in the water, kinda brown spot the pink straw is pointing to, it's a bait ball of minnows.
I know my fat finger is in the way, I need to get a zoom lens for my phone, any way there is a sunken boat, I can say Harvey is responsible for this, you can see today damage from Harvey.
Laurice in heaven
A view of the gulf from Galveston
You ever see some water and just wanted to jump in, I did, no pictures of me because I could be blackmailed.
This is a picture of the gulf, the wind has made the water ruff the last couple of days.
Flying a kite on a nice day
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If you look really hard you can see a pink spot, that is my wife Laurice she gets into the water and plays like a little kid, she has her boogey board and is riding them in, she is so funny.
Cowboy on vacation, I had my boots on, Laurice said no way.
A view of the crap water were we are in Kemah Texas.
This is why I say crap, nasty garage right were you have to fish.
This is one gourges motor home, it's priced at a low price of one million. one can dream.
Just another view, WOW!
This is my pretty girl, her name is moly aka: maler, I call her that because she Mall's my face with kisses, I love this little dog.
This was a mass baptism on the beach today, it was a blessing to see, what a gift.
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