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After the passage of 14 years, I am still grieving her death.

Post author:Mark
Post published:July 8, 2021
Post category:Adventure

I first got interested in German Shepherds in the Sheriff's academy. I had volunteered to be the target for Thor, a 110-pound male German Shepherd. The power and speed Thor displayed were both awing and frightening. No man in the world could have won a fight with Thor. Pictured above, is Shultzie and my wife, Mary. I got Shultzie from our county animal pound. I had decided on a male that was there, but when I came back after the quarantine period, he had been put down for fighting with other dogs. Shulttzie was still there. All…

An occurrence caused by sickness 40 years prior and over 2,000 miles away.

Post author:Mark
Post published:May 10, 2021
Post category:Adventure

I was adopted by Leonard and Ilo Pullen in 1965. Leonard and Ilo were foster parents to 48 children through the years. They raised two boys, Slim and Stan, along with their two sons before my adoption. Slim and Stan both moved to Montana where they both died in workplace accidents. Thereafter, Ilo only accepted babies who were waiting for placement. Leonard was a civil servant who took blind people grocery store shopping and fishing on his boat. Fred Zine was totally blind. Fred amazed my father and me by being able to give the grocery clerks…

Mark’s last adventure.

Post author:Mark
Post published:December 8, 2020
Post category:Adventure

It was the summer of 2008. I had been sent to Cal Fire's base in the city of Ukiah. I had the goal of paying off our home's mortgage. As I had done in summers past, I saved the per diam that I received by not renting an apartment. I instead slept in the wilderness. My duty cycle was 15 hours a day and I was only allotted one day off every week. And my wife was insistent that I would come home on my day off each week. It seemed money foolish to rent an apartment…