Once upon a Time

An incident just occurred to me that reminded me of something long ago and far away.  I was speaking to the carpenter working on out bathroom.  I wanted to tell him some private instructions Mrs. Kadizzle was not to know about. In the process Kadizzle realized Mrs. had silently walked up behind me. I did not know she was listening.

This could be a long story.  Years ago when I worked at the Glenharold mine I was driving down the haul road.  I looked over and saw an eagle hanging upside down from a leg trap. It was not on mine property, but on the adjacent land.  It was a very dramatic picture. I contacted a newspaper reporter friend of mine, and she took a picture and did a story. The picture eventually made it to Audubon Magazine.

The whole thing turned into a great kerfuffle.  The public service commission got involved and claimed it was the duty of the mine to report to them anything that happened withing three miles of the mine.  This was absurd the mine had nothing to do with it.  It turned out a coyote trapper had illegally set traps near a dead cow carcass. The fine was $25,000.

The reclamation engineer at the mine was all upset by the attack of the public service commission.  So good old John who was all for John and no one else went to the man in the top position at the mine and tried to get Kadizzle fired for making the incident public. None of this made any sense. Kadizzle thought he was fighting for the environment.

As circumstance would have it Kadizzle quietly walked into the mine superintendents office as John was suggesting Kadizzle be fired.  John had no idea Kadizzle was behind him as he made his ridiculous case.  Eventually he turned around very embarrassed.

John had a reputation for being a self centered asshole. This nailed it. His job was to restore the mine and protect the environment. Most of the time he was supposed to be doing his job he was managing his farmland over the phone and being paid for it by the coal company.  Strangely Kadizzle has dreampt for years about his feud with John.  It was common knowledge that John was a back stabber.

Well live and learn.