An old friend from Cottage Grove came by yesterday on his way to Roseburg. It has been a couple of years since he stopped by to see Celia and I. He was a neighbor living around the corner when Celia and I lived in Cottage Grove from 2000 to 2006 and a co-worker when I worked for the Forest Service there from 1988 to 1995.
With old friends you never know where the topic of conversation will take you, especially while drinking some beers and catching up on events in our lives, kind of like me writing about it in this blog and not knowing how it is going to end. We reminisced about the good old days in the Forest Service, compared forest fires of those days to the wild fires of today, talked about life in Cottage Grove, how low Dorena and Cottage Grove reservoirs are due to very little spring runoff, local politics, our latest health issues and much more.
Sometimes old friend pass along bad news, the passing away of old neighbors and another Forest Service co-worker we both knew. Sometimes I fear seeing old friends not knowing what what kind of bad news they have to tell, but on the other hand you never know when you might see those old friends again at this stage of life.
Good morning,
ReplyDeleteThank you again for sharing your thoughts, feelings, and memories. Are you familiar with the book, Fire at My Feet, written by Clay Dickerson? He shares his history of fighting forest fires. Did you happen to know him?
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-My-Feet-Lifetime-Fighting/dp/1532063350/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=clay+dickerson&qid=1628524406&sr=8-1