I don’t know how I got a job at Jim’s sawmill, but I bet it had something to do with Harvey Christensen! 

When I first got married I bought a small trailer and moved into Harrington’s trailer court. Well, we had trouble with the sewer draining when we ran anything in the trailer. I was working for Ed Elmer on weekends for a little extra money, so I asked Ed to come take a look. 

He brought his sewer truck, but first he used a snake to see if there was an obstruction. There was! He hooked the hose up and about this time my dad showed up. Ed was sucking onto something down the pipe then it would let go, but after numerous attempts he brought out a 3’ 2×4!

Ed started to grin and stutter a little, then he asked me, “Mike, where are you working now?”

I told him, “Jims’s sawmill!”

He said, “You’re going to have to quit eating sawdust. You’re starting to plug the sewer and if I have to come over every week it’s going to get expensive!” 

Then he said to my dad, “Albert what do you think?”

Dad said to me, “Don’t quit just yet! I could use some 2×6’s.”

I said, “That’s real funny. Ha! Ha!” 

I just knew they were going to share this event! And they did!

We had just moved into the trailer court and some one had just left the lot we got! There was a lot of blocking laying around and I’m sure some kids were playing and dropped the wood in the sewer pipe! 

Regardless, I quit eating sawdust! Come on now you’ve got to have a sense of humor!

I didn’t think it was very funny at the time, but you see others can pick up on a funny situation and go with it! This time it happened to be Ed and Dad! 

I still laugh about things like this from time to time when I think of Ed & Dad.