Don Anderson Quotations

When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 percent under water. When this happens we can't get our work done, but we can put up with it until the end of February. Then we have to get back to work. When there are breaks in the storm, that allows the water to drain and we can work around that. But when it is just continuous, then we get in trouble.

Many northerners just arriving here have not even unpacked choosing to turn around and head north by northeast back toward Jacksonville, into Georgia, etc.,

I don't understand why in the world he'd want to go down there and end his tour of duty in a situation where he could just bomb out. He couldn't bomb out in Wichita.

It happens every year about this time. I'm sure the cells are there now.

We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles in a weekend,'

We got this information. And there's definitely an interest out there. The more we can educate people, the better.

We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are.

When the price of the building is going up faster than you can raise the money, it is a little discouraging sometimes. The construction inflation has just been incredible.

We came down off our hill and looked towards St. Helens and saw this huge black cloud and thought it was a thunderstorm,

We have been pretty fortunate...we do quite a bit of training on driving and how you should be driving and things like that.

We live in a disposable society, but here, you keep and reuse. I once ordered a part and had it delivered. The part was $10. The delivery was $90. After that, you tend to weigh those decisions a little more carefully.

All of us who live along the river monitor the river levels. You can plan a lot of your operations around river projections, such as where to move equipment and make plans on pruning crews and those types of things, so it is a real handy tool.

I had the idea a long time ago. Bill's just a fountain of information, a living encyclopedia.

The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast by this organism.

You can shackle them down but most of the time you let them kick and yell until you get them to the jail.