Some of my stuff

I use a .223 single-shot to defend stock with. This is an Agricultural well (center) I dug in 2014. It's 20' deep. It is surrounded by walnut trees. I have 3 dozen walnut trees. I made a storm shelter out of a 1400 gallon septic tank (right). The right vent goes to the floor, and the left one stays to the ceiling for circulation (above right).

 Letter to Mom

Hi Mom! I ran across something that I thought you should know while I was reading one of my course textbooks. Do you remember always blaming my Hodgkin’s on my mission? It used to offend me by making me feel like a complainer. You probably remember how mad it made me. This book I’m reading (see below) has hundreds of white-collar-crimes in it. Some of them are recent cases where Mormons were bilked out of tens of millions of dollars. The one that concerns me is an environmental fiasco. I remember requesting of Pres. Kimball to serve somewhere hot rather than Alaska etc. I didn’t understand how hot of a spot I was sent to until now. I’m reading a criminology book called “Profit Without Honor” – Fifth Edition; By Rosoff; Pontell and Tillman (2010). You should buy it and read it if you want a knowledge of “men and things”. On pages 152-154 it talks about the Environmental Superfund fiasco. A large government fund set aside to clean up hazardous waste dumps throughout the country. Some of my mission areas were about 5 miles or so north of our nation’s highest cancer causing chemical dump, while I was serving my mission in South Houston and later in downtown Houston Tx. “Brio” is an old refinery that buried fuel oil residues, styrene tars, heavy metals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on its premises. Five hundred to seven hundred thousand cubic yards of soil is contaminating ground water with vinyl chloride and benzene. The refinery closed while I was there in 1982. It’s so bad that they can’t even clean it up with the superfund without getting sued. They have since evacuated six hundred seventy eight homes in a five hundred acre subdivision nearby. I just wanted you to know that I would serve my mission there again if called to under the same circumstances. It would be complaining to say otherwise. I don’t think it is fair however to deny my “prerogative (exclusive right) and responsibility to choose whom to marry” because of the side effects (First Pres. Message, March, 1990 ensign), as in the case of Jolene Lemmon’s denial. Unless, of course, she was asked by someone prior to me asking. I think the resurrection makes it fair in the end, to the condemnation of possibly the polluters in my case; if you Mom are right in your assumptions about where I was sent, and the effects of my mission. I spent a total of 7 months within a few miles of Brio. If you want to read a book about white -collar-crimes then you should get this book and read it. Love, Clint.

Most of the following are draft documents that I edited later and submitted at the University. Some are not from school. Have fun finding fault with them.