Glass Chatroom Board

Carl,
I guess we've lived long enough now that we can see those changes. I find myself thinking about the past it seems more and more. Maybe it's because as they say there is more road behind us now than in front of us.
I know they were huge in potato production years ago, didn't realize it had changed that much.
I assumed, and just had to look it up, that Idaho was and is #1.
Then you have plants pull out of an area, that can be devastating. Just yesterday they announced that OxyChem or the old Hooker Chemical is closing it's big plant in November here. After 155 years I think I read. Sad, but Niagara Falls was built on all those Chemical plants that lined Buffalo Ave, along the Niagara River above the falls. Now...was it a good thing? It provided jobs but at a huge cost to the environment and peoples health. This same company Hooker was the one responsible for "Love Canal", and we have one of the highest cancer rates in the county. I'm one that quit frankly is glad to see it go, but you have to be careful saying that on the streets here.
I know what you mean by the bitter-sweet trip thing. It's been 17 years now that I left our family farm, and it's only about 15 miles from me. I have never gone back, not even got close to the area, too many memories and it upsets me so. But all and all, I can say that I have been happy with the way things turned out. I changed careers, found new jobs, friends, bought a house again, and I'm enjoying growing my tax accounting business still. You know I don't think I could still be doing those physical jobs anymore that I use to and now what I'm doing I can keep going till I drop if I want. So every cloud does have that silver lining.
Well, enough said or maybe to much, lol.
JimL