Things that might have been

I thought for most of my life that I would be a lumber grader.

My training was initially at Potlatch Forests Inc., in Potlatch, Idaho, just nine miles from my home in Palouse. I had been there for four years and decided after I met my wife to leave PFI and move to southern Idaho. Dorothy was from Buhl, about 120 miles east of Boise.

Of course, I needed work, so I found a job grading lumber in Good...