This is the new photo I am using for all of my new work. It was taken by my wife Polly
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Location: Springdale Wa
Birthday: February 23(Saved Remind mePlease RetryPlease Retry)
Anniversary: June 14
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Edd lives with his wife just outside of Springdale Washington. Having grown up in Colorado he has always loved the west and especially the mountains. While Edd pulls oversized loads all over America, Polly his wife takes care of things on the ranch, and helps with the photography. They soon hope to start breeding Paint Horses. Over the last 15 years Edd has driven truck across all of the Lower 48 … Read moreEdd lives with his wife just outside of Springdale Washington. Having grown up in Colorado he has always loved the west and especially the mountains. While Edd pulls oversized loads all over America, Polly his wife takes care of things on the ranch, and helps with the photography. They soon hope to start breeding Paint Horses. Over the last 15 years Edd has driven truck across all of the Lower 48 states and most of Southern Canada pulling Vans, Refrigerated, Flatbed, and a variety of Specialized trailers. His love of photography started during a trip to visit his older brother Bill who was living in New York City during the late 60's. Bill started Edd's education in photography. In high school Gordon Parks' book A Choice of Weapons had a profound effect on Edd. He took advantage of an Army program to reenlist for a change of specialty, to attend the U.S. Army Still Photography Course at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey. He went on to serve as a Photographer at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, Seoul, Korea, Ft Rucker Alabama, and Bad Toelz, Germany before leaving active duty in 1980. After struggling to make a living in his beloved Colorado he moved to Washington State in 1986. At first living in the Seattle area he later moved south to Tacoma after meeting his wife Polly who grew up in Tacoma. When the opportunity to move east to the mountains north of Spokane they both gladly left the hustle and bustle of the city behind. Since beginning his driving career in January of 1990 he has logged well over a million miles.
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Odd just gets better as it goes along. At first I was luke warm to this character but with each book he has grown on me. His simple view of life is so wonderfully uncomplicated that I envy him his outlook on life. Even when faced with situations that could have some agonizing over the answers Odd just seems to grasp the necessities as they are and deals with it. I wonder where the ending of this story will lead to since it was left wide open.
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This story hit home for me. My grandfather built the soddy (a house made of blocks of prairie sod) that my mother was born in on the Colorado plains. The spirit of the people who carved out a living on those plains could best be described as tenacious as a bulldog. And here I thought that Sloppy Joes were named after my uncle Joe Masterson. Ohh well I like Ms Shelnutt's version better since I had my first one after moving to Denver. Her depiction of the people in her family make them recognizable as all of those who have fought to overcome life's boulders. I look forward to her next story.
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In her story "Dark Diamond Twilight" Miss Shelnutt gives us a look at how working men relate to their machines. Her husband Tom operates his bob cat loader as if he were on a dance floor made of black diamonds as he scoops up buckets full of coal to load on a bigger machine. What some people would view as a catastrophe due to the loss of their jobs these men see as one more chance to do what they love. The politics of it have them baffled but the joy of working makes it all worth while. Here is the grit that made America great, people working for the joy of it, even if it is the Last Day. When they clock out tonight it will be over, the coal is still there but the business types… Read more
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