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30 year's, no way. Seem's like just yesterday we were all still in school. I actually started working at Martin Tractor in Topeka before I graduated from school, so this coming January I will also celebrate 30 years of employment. In 1985 I married Bonnie, who went to Seaman, and we are still together. We live north of Burlingame, Ks, have 2 son's, Cole and Jaccob, 5 horses, 3 dogs and 4 cats. Cole is 15 years old and a sophomore, he is a distance runner and actually went to state this year in cross country as Burlingame's only cross country runner. He also play's high school basketball and our fellow classmate David Lord is one of the coaches. In 2002 we adopted Jaccob, and we have been very lucky with that, he is an exceptionally smart young man ( sometimes too smart for his own good) and has also turned out to be quite an athelete. He is now 12 and in the 6th grade. He also play's every sport he can get in, and actually made the Junior High varsity basketball squad. We all enjoy the outdoors, and my wife lives to bowhunt, so I get to enjoy my favorite activitie's with both her and the boy's, plus my whole family shoots once a month at a local sportings clay course, and when we're not doing that, it seems that we are setting in a bleacher somewhere watching the boy's. I still enjoy my old Ford's and have a few that I can drive everyday, and a few still needing restored. We also still have the old military jeeps, and spend our vacations in them either in the mountains of Colorado or the Ozarks in Missouri. The boy's both have a jeep of their own waiting for them when they come of age ( they can buy their own cars !!) and hopefully they will continue that tradition. Retirement ? Who has time for it ? I can wait till I get