I wasn’t gonna be a farmer or a rancher, or anything like that. But I wanted to use that, I wanted to be around animals. I forgot to mention, I had whatever animals I could get away with at home. I had ducks and chickens in the backyard. I had rabbits and guinea pigs, and down in the cellar after we got an oil burner, we didn’t need a coal bin anymore, and the coal bin became a natural history museum I set up. Anybody that came to see my mother and father had to come down and get a tour of my museum. Everything was labeled with three-by-five cards. They were all things that I had collected or put together or whatever.
