Life since Bay View HS

Hello to all. This first post is for all the people I have not seen or talked to since BVHS. I was driving a school bus for Joy Farm and delivering pizzas for Pizza Man on Oakland and North Aves. I got a carpentry apprenticeship in 1975 and have been working in construction ever since. I worked for Chicago and Northwestern Railroad for 10 yrs as a Bridge and Building carpenter. In 1977 I fell in love and got married, we had a daughter who just turned 31 in July. We ended up getting divorced in 1980. About a year later I fell in love again, But this time we just lived together. We also had a daughter who will be 28 in November. With this realtionship we moved out of Milwaukee to Pipe, Wi on the east side of Lake Winnabago. I have not lived in Milwaukee since. The person I was with wanted to better herself, she was tired of dead end jobs for low pay. She decided to go back to college so we ended up separating. We are still good friends today. I was on a traveling crew for the Railroad after that. I moved to the Wautoma, Wi area because I had alot of friends and family in this area. In time a lady that I was dating from the Pipe area moved in together. We are still together to this day. We have two sons together. Steve is 21 and Dean James or DJ is 9 going to be 10 in October. We moved to Sheboygan for 9 yrs, then decieded to buy a house in Neshkoro south of Wautoma. We lived there for four years. In 2002 I was offered the position as a caretaker for this camp I live at now. When we first moved here the job was not a payed position, we got our housing, electric, heat furnished as part of the job. So I went to work for a Heating and Air conditioning, Refrigeration contractor in Waupaca,Wi. In mid 2005 they made my position a full time Ranger's job. I love doing this type of work. I have alot of freedom here that I would not have in other jobs. Also I carried with me a lot of "Demons" with me from that stage crew accident in school, I was pretty messed up mentally. In 2000 in finally did some thing about it. Life has been real good since then. Before that it had been quite the roller coaster ride. So there you have it, maybe more than you wanted to know, but I don't hide things anymore because it just screws things up.