Chauffeur career ends. Bear found guilty.

Uncle Karl, Jerry, and Ralph will have to roam the mountain passes without Kadizzle next week.  The excitement of finding and aluminum can will be gone.  Kadizzle found out last night it takes 34 cans to make a pound of aluminum, and that is worth 80 cents.  Uncle Karl taught Kadizzle a lot about gold mining and how to tell real gold from fake.  Uncle Karl tried to pass off fools gold to Kadizzle then explained how you could tell it is fools gold. Real gold always is gold Karl told Kadizzle as he held the fools gold.  Fools gold only is gold when it reflects sunlight.  Uncle Karl had many gold claims in his career.  After spending days with Uncle Karl, and Jerry it seemed evident they had their own brand of hard scrabble intelligence.  It was strange how they both seemed to end up relatively broke after long lives of relatively good jobs.  On the other hand it was easy to see how Ralph ended up broke.  

The other day when Kadizzle asked Uncle Karl how he got his job cleaning camp sites for The Forest Service he said "You have to be broke and stupid".  When Jerry chewed out Kadizzle for doing a poor job of backing the truck Kadizzle explained to Jerry he was trying to qualify as a paid worker. Kadizzle was trying to prove he was stupid.

On a different subject.  It was the bear that did it.  The other day we hiked high in the mountains near Parker Creek. We came across an experimental station that was also a summer encampment of Arizona University. Kadizzle found a window had been broken out of the main building which sat empty in the winter.  The broken window was reported to the Forest Service.  Kadizzle thought it was vandilism, but that turned out not to be the case. The Commander went back a couple days ago to hike again with friends and realized it was a bear that broke out the window. Apparently the bear saw his own reflection and attacked himself by jumping through the window.  Mr. bear was now trapped in the building and jumped out another window breaking it in the process.