HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWAMPDONKEY!!!!!!!!

[Danny_S]

Happy birthday chief! I just noticed on the calendar  

[SwampDonkey]

Birthday?  what birthday?  

Oh, so that's why I got this birthday card. DanG I opened it up and no $$.

Thanks for the reminder  

[Rocky_J]

In my opinion, birthdays should be celebrated by the very young and the very old. Like the first 18 and then anything past 80.  

[redpowerd]

you and my teacher would be very well inclined
your the dude we tied to the tree and made to name every branch you could see

happy birthday swampdonky, imma gunna meet ya someday

[etat]

Hey SWAMP, Happy Birthday!!!!  Hope ya have many many more and grow old doing what you love to do!!


I kinda been wondering something.  You are REALLY knowledgable when it comes to forrestry and things.   I just think it'd be interesting to know a little bit about what made you study and get into your line of work.

[SwampDonkey]

Thanks all.

My knees this morning feel as old as I do. Climb'n mountains in the cold rain on the west coast helped their condition. But, that's life.

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I always been in the woods since I was sprouted. Wish I could find that photo of me holden a shot gun in one hand and a grouse in the other, at aged four.  Was hunting with my grandparents, and I had to gather the shot birds. Now I don't even hunt.

Well lets see... I decided to study forestry as its the number three industry in New Brunswick. Agriculture and mining are 1 and 2 $$ wise. And I figured there'd always be trees if we looked after them right and they are renewable, some even resproutable off the stump. I figured I was someone who could make a difference in managing the forests, after seeing how high graded some woodlands were becoming. On crown land all I seen was clearcutting. I don't think I was the only one interested in change. I was more of a passive type than an activist, so I didn't influence it too much.

I also like to grow things, but running a farm didn't seem to be what I wanted and the folks never tried to force us into farming  because of all the hardship that comes along with it. I even started working when I was 7 in potato fields for neighbors, till I was 12 when I'de help father during crop'n and pack'n spuds. At the time father had an air vac harvestor and I was too young to be around that.

Anyway,  I was always planting trees around the yard and transplanting wild shrubs and plants. I got a regular forest around the place now, even some places the grass don't grow no more.

It was my grandfather that brought me in touch with the woods at a very early age. He worked in the bush all his life and had a guide outfitting company, but had retired in 1974. We were never home in summer and fall, only to take a little break from out door'n and go back at it again in 3 or 4 days. There was fish to be caught and
grouse to be hunted.  Good grief, I slept on shore rock, mess tables in lumber camps and in the bed of a truck.......no wonder I ache.

[Patty]

Happy Birthday Swamp Donkey !  

[Dom]

Happy birthday!  

[slowzuki]

Happy birthday Swampy! Maybe the mosquitos will take it easy on ya today My dad says the older he gets the less the mosquitos eat at him, maybe it's true old people get crusty!

[pappy]

Happy Birthday Swamp Donkey!!!!!!!


I always new you was a big sensitive guy  

[OneWithWood]

Happy, happy!  

[SwampDonkey]

Yup, I had an overnight visitor on my thinning job last night leavin his tracks and excrement on my trail.  

That's a kewl piccy of pussy and moosey

Wonder how much hair the cat had left after the moose took a big lick with that sand paper-like tounge

Fur balls anyone?  

[etat]

Well Swamp, glad ya had a good one.  Thanks for the bit of info ya throwed at me, as I said I'd a sorta been wondering and if you had told it before I musta missed it. Pretty much what I had figured but liked hearing it from you.  Trying not to miss nuthing now!!