Some people

[etat]

He made me hustle enough i'm tired

[Quartlow]

Well I guess tomorrow I go get old Harry buy his bald head and ring his neck, ain't no way in heck that wood burner is safe.  on a brighter note the furnace wasn't out of fuel, DanG theres got to be 200 gallons in the tank. Jon said that when it wouldn't light he just guessed it was out of fuel. Turns out the igniter's where dirty and out of wack, took me all of 15 minutes to get it running.   8)
Sure made Jon happy.
Being the nosy fart that I am while he was upstairs with the baby I checked his fridge and cupboards. There was a pretty good supply on hand and I didn't spot no booze, from what I saw they have pretty decent furniture and the place was clean.

Now tomorrow I get old Harry and twist his arm a bit. place needs some serious fixing up. Fridge is old and makes an awful racket. 2 cupboard doors are missing. the front door won't open. carpet is flat wore out and the place needs a  fresh coat of paint and some holes in the walls fixed. Old Harry owes me a few favors anyway, time to collect.  ;D ;D

After the little time I spent there this evening I really think he was just having a bad day yesterday. He's apologized 3 or 4 times for how he acted.  I kind of think he has been trying but just hasn't caught the right breaks.

As for his Dad, well it's his loss because his granddaughter is just the cutest sweetest little thing ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

He made me hustle enough I'm tired

CK, he probably would have made you tired to!!  :D :D :D

[Ernie]

Quartlow

Sounds like you've been appointed as guardian angel.

It's a great job to have.

Ernie

[Ga_Boy]

Quartlow,

I said it once, but I just can't help my self. 


Hoo!!!  YAH !!!!   Good job

Mark

[iain]

yip i've got to echo the replys  YOUR ON THE RIGHT TRACK


    iain

[tnlogger]

glad to hear every thing is working out Quartlow. That is one of the main reasons i joined this forum. Everyone here trys so hard to help any that needs it without thinking of themselves.
  ;)

[Quartlow]

I'm begining to think I've adopted this guy, he was here this morning again.  I'm making coffee and the wife ask's me if I was down to the shop and fixed the fire all ready.  I just gace here that deer in the headlights look and said, huh? So I take a gander out the back door and sure enough theres smoke coming frrom the chimney. So I grabbed my thermos and mosied down there. I just figured my nephew who is staying with me right now fixed it on way out to work. Wrong!!

Seems ol Jon was all ready here and fixed the fire and was cleaning up the sawdust around the shop. Told me he thought he owed me some more help for all the firewood even if he couldn't use it till the woodburner got fixed. Apparently he had been there since 6:30.

So for lack of anything better to do we cut up a 42 inch oak log I had down here, a job if I may say I've been putting off  :
Didn't take no time at all for him to get onto the cant hook. and by the time we finsihed cutting up the second 1/4 he waiting on me. Only had to show him things once.

When we got done he cleaned up around the mill and I went up to the shop and called old Harry up. Explained what I know about the situation and asked him if he was intending on doing anything with that house or what. Well the old fart balked a bit at first but thats just Harry, he hates to spend money. Rumor has it he still has the first penny he ever made  :D :D But in the end he promised me he would call a furnace man today to get the furnace checked out and come the first of the week he would go over and see what all the place needed.

Tomorrow I have to help my brother, he's select cutting his woods, I'm getting a few of the logs and hae is selling off the stuff that he's not going to have me saw for him. Told Jon I would pay him 10 bucks an hour to help tomorrow. See how he handles a 14 hour day. told him I would pick him up at 5:00AM.

If he works out ok I may call the feedmill, One of they guys in charge is an ex boyfriend of the wifes.  :D :D I know they are looking for help. It's not a great job but they are pretty good people.

[old3dogg]

How old is this guy?
Sounds to me that he just wants to learn how to earn his way.
Sounds like a pretty good guy to me.
Keep him going Ouartlow.You are doing a great job.
Wish I could have met a person like you when I was young and on the "skids".

[etat]

I'm positively glad to hear he's doing good.  And glad to hear you're helping him.  Everybody deserves and needs a chance. Now for the otherside of my thoughts.  Don't forget you don't really KNOW this guy.  Just saying to keep yer wits about ya. 

[Buzz-sawyer]

Dont kno what kinda boundaries ya have with this guy, but a realitive stranger in my shed would have me approaching with something in my hand initially, .......seems a bit presumptuous on his part.Maybe you got to be better buds in that day than I figured. ;)

[jjmk98k]

Quartlow, It's been very nice to read this story of yours and have chosen now to chime in myself.

I am glad to see things are working out and he's been
"given a chance" with you... I think that maybe it is just what he needed. 

It kinda of hits home with me since I have a older brother who hit bottom many times and I was not around to encourage him to get up and stay up, only my mom really took any time to care.

I was away in the Air Force, far away from home and really didnt care what was going on, i was too far away to make any changes and had enough on my plate as it was.

We were your standard "home without a dad" family since my mom and dad seperated ( my "father" was and still is a worthless drunk, father or not, have not talked to him in years.)   

My stepdad who I now call "dad" was a great influence on me when I was in my early and mid teens. He believed in me and thats all I needed. My older brother was already in trouble by the time my mom met my one day step"dad"

Now, I am older ( just turned 30) and so is my brother (37), now clean off drugs and doing better for himself and his family. He and I talk once a week where before it was once a year.  I now live in PA again, but on the "other side" of the state from my family...I get to see my brother more now than ever....

Years ago when I came home on leave I'd go to see him ...but there were bars and glass between us. NOT ANYMORE

I think all he really needed was someone to believe in him too, like my step"DAD" did with me.......

maybe that was me... and his son... we believe he can do well and now he's been showing it.

Look after that guy, all he needs is someone to believe in him.

I think we all here hope you're able to get him on his feet...

( the guys here will also arrange a meeting with thats dudes father and the woodshed)   :D   :D

[Faron]

Quartlow, Just a couple of thoughts on your situation with this young family-  How much would you know or be  involved with this guy if he had just picked up some slabs and acted decent and you hadn't had your little dustup with him?   Probably not very much.  Sometimes things happen for a reason.  Who knows, maybe this is one of those times.  It would be awesome to know you have been picked to help this family-or maybe they have been picked to help you!  I can see you are judging him not on how much he knows, but on how much "try" is in him.  If he has enough "try" in him, he'll learn what he needs to know. smiley_bull_stomp  (Sorry, after using that rodeo cowboy term, I couldn't resist using  that bull!)

[Kirk_Allen]

Way to go Q-Low!

I know the feeling you have! 

Many of EARLY mornings here have been spent visiting with Jim, my adopted farmer.  I am honored to be able to be there for him when it appears he has no one else. 

The Good Lord has a reason for everything.  That old saying of "The Truth Hurts" is so true.  Its those that except the hurt from the truth and make corrections that are the winners!

"Ignorance is only a sin when its a prefered state of mind"

[MULE_MAN]

I think you just say it all Kirk !   

[Roxie]

My philosophy has always been that I would rather make the mistake of giving kindness to someone that didn't deserve it, than ever risk withholding kindness from someone that  truly needed it.   

[Ernie]

I trust everyone until they prove I made a mistake.  Not many do, I sleep better that way.  I haven't been let down very often.  Is it luck or are people basically good?

Ernie

[sigidi]

That says it all Roxie

[Bro. Noble]

In educational psychology,  they encourage teachers to treat kids with a positive attitude reguardless of the reputation they might have.  If you treat a kid like he is stupid and untrustworthy,  he will act stupid and untrustworthy.  I think maybe we all tend to react that way. 

Ernie and Roxie get gold stars as well as Quartlow.

One of the times that I have been most ashamed of myself was when a fellow had a flat tire in front of our house.  I wasn't nice to him at all :(  He was not only falling down drunk,  but used very poor judgement by having a flat in front of my house about a week after I had quit tobacco   I was ashamed of several things that I did during that period :D

Anyway I chewed the guy out for being drunk in public and for being a real knucklehead for not having a spare and expecting someone that had put in a hard days work to just drop what they were doing to take him home.  He said that was fine he believed he would rather walk than spend anymore time in my presence anyway.  I thought about the way I had acted,  remembered times when I had needed help,  and some of the things I did when I was a drinker.  I apoligized  and offered him the use of my spare as we had the same make of pickups.  I then helped him install the spare.

The next day,  he was there bright and early with my tire and wheel.  He said "bet you never expected to see me again"  I told him I hadn't worried a minute about it. :D :D  He was a pretty nice guy,  especially when sober, and I turned out to be fairly decent after a year or two off the nicotine. ;D

[sawguy21]

Roxie and Quartlow, you get my vote!  8)I tend to give everyone the benefit of the doubt until they give me good reason not to. Yes I have been used and abused but I have also made some long term friends. Sounds like this young man needs to make something of himself and people to believe in him.

[Furby]

Thursday night it was snowing pretty good, and the roads had a coat of ice under the snow. As I came up to a pretty nasty turn where I have spun out in the past, there was a car off the road in the snowbank. I could see someone standing by the car, but I just kept driving.
Got to thinking about it and turned around at the next place I could. Got back and found a pretty shook of lady that had done a 180 and took out a mailbox sideways. Her son had just drove up right after I had gone past. Well between the three of us we got her car out and all of us back on our way.

I guess I was really feeling guilty for driving pass, considering how many times I've been in a situation like that and some one stopped to help.
Anyways Quartlow, you may never realize the possible chain of events you may have set into motion by helping this family out. Even if this fellow had intended to take advantage of the situation, it sounds like you are a pretty good influence on him.

[Quartlow]

Boy I am mean!! ;D We worked that poor guy hard yeasterday. Picked him up and he was all bright and chipper , too much in fact for that hour of the morning. made the 45 minute drive to my brothers, Filled the thermos back up, fired up the dozer and the 1750 oliver and over the hill we went. All total we had Me, my brother Howard, Jon  2 of my nephews Todd and Wayne and a neighbor Joey who logs for a living. I pretty much rode the dozer all day skidding logs up over the hill  ;D It was a tough job but somebody had to do it.  :D :D

Howard pretty much supervised and fell trees
Joey bucked out the logs since thats what he does for a living and we figured this was the best way to get the most out of logs
Wayne and Todd cut brush and trimmed the topps into 8 foot lentgs of firewood.
Poor Jon, he drug brush fed the chipper and stacked firewood all day with some help from Wayne and Todd.

About 1 we broke for Lunch Jon was still feeling pretty chipper. So i told the boys to kick it up a notch or 2.  I'm a bad boy.

We finally knocked off about 6;00 Got everything back up to the house, Joey went home and the rest of us went to the barn and did the barn work. Finally got dinner about 8:00 Jon wasn't feeling so chipper now :D

After dinner we went out to the shop and helped my nephew set the enging back in his big truck, he pulled it out 2 weeks ago to to do and out of frame major on it. Got it set in place and bolted down. Set the raditor back  in place hooked it up and did a few other small things. We finally got out of there about A little after 11 last night.  We got in the truck and headed home. I wasn't 1/2 a mile down the road and poor Jon was sawing logs :D :D :D

All total 17 hours of hell for the poor guy and not one complaint not bad considering he had 3 or 4 people sending him in all differant directions and never giving him much of a chance to rest.

Now nobody at home knew where I found Jon, all they knew was I brought him along. I told my nephews that he had never really been in the woods before like this and to keep an eye on him and show him the ropes. But I also told them don't cut him any slack.

I callled everybody this morning and asked them what they thought of him. since I didn't see him most of the day
Howard liked him, But then again anyone who wil listen to my brother ramble on without interupting he likes.

Wayne and Todd both told me was ok and neither one of them are really outgoing. Wayne spent about 1/2 an hour going over the chipper with him so he wouldnt kill himself, They told me they didn't catch him doing anything dangerous all day. As far as they know he didn't complain once yeasterday.

The big question is NOW what do I do with him? I'm kind of thinking if he flies straight this week maybe next week I'll call over the feedmill and send him over there.
I'm still thinking about this.

[etat]

Uy. Yep.  So ya done about tried to kill the guy working him like a mad man and he done real good huh. I'm impressed that he stayed with it.  So now instead of goin ahead and recommending him for a job yer gonna keep him for yourself for another week cause he's a good worker.

Nothing wrong with that but I sure wish I had a wayt to get a hold of him. I'd tell him it's time to ask for a RAISE! 8) 8)

[tnlogger]

 ck your just wishing he new how ta roof :D :D
Quartlow did you check his hands ya mighta worn him to the bone working him so hard.
from what i've heard he might be a keeper, young strong and dont complain. glad to here hes trying at least.

[sigidi]

Keep updating us Quartlow,

it's just great to know there is this calibre of person still out there - all too often we only here about the bad eggs.

He doesn't have internet access does he? Ya never know how someone will take it when heaps of folkes have been talking about 'em - regardless he's sounding like a good recommend to some local employers

[asy]

Good onya Quartlow!

The guy sounds fantastic...

Sigidi, I don't think there's much danger of him reading this...  The poor bugger's still sleeping!!!  :D

Bro. Noble, just one thing about yer guy with the tyre...  Did you help him change the tyre and let him drive home drunk???  Really???