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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

It has been interesting hiring a local builder.  I may have mentioned 
the connections before but they continue to grow.  The builders wife is 
the nurse that prepped me for surgery last October.  His mother in law 
was our grandsons second grade teacher. His partner is the grandson of a 
local sawmill owner and a nephew of some friends who are giving me the 
Oak for the stairs.  His wife is the speech therapist at the grade school.

I was asked by the county health department to look into their radio 
system and the kid I was talking to is a nephew of the builders partner 
and a great grandson of the mill owner.  A woman at the meeting is a 
cousin of the concrete contractor.

The concrete contractor is a long time friend of the builder.  His wife 
runs the metal recycling place in Mountain Home, AR.  He had two boys 
working with him, the sons of one of the county grader operators.  We 
were just finishing breakfast one morning when I looked out and saw the 
grader coming down the driveway checking up on his boys.  We had a great 
conversation while he watched his boys work up a sweat.

A part time helper of the concrete guy is another county grader operator 
and a cousin.

It seems the entire county knows we are building.  Today in the grocery 
store the clerk told us she heard we were building, neither of know 
her.  With this tight net you don't dare stiff anybody, the whole county 
would know.

--
Don Bowen           AD0BR
"A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In 
solitude alone can he know true freedom."
-Michel De Montaigne 1588
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html