Paul at his 50th birthday party last year
I'm watching a Iowa Public Television show on the devastation of last year's floods. The TV crew came to Creston and interviewed Paul for this special last winter. So he should be on coming up sometime in the next half hour. This is the IPTV link to the segment: http://www.iptv.org/video/detail.cfm/3883/tij_20090604_230/format:wmv
It's the full 26 minute segment of the show. He's on around minute 11.
You probably think Paul (Pablo the Poolboy) is only an expert in caring for pools. Not so. His real job, for the past 26 years has been as a conservationist - working for the federal government to prevent soil runoff, making the world safe for humankind. Ha!
What he does is pretty important. The things we've done to the land for the past hundred years has affected water quality - putting land into crop production that was never meant to grow crops. Clearing and tilings field and other land development in areas in the flood plain have have helped encourage quick runoff to Iowa's streams.
They just had his clip - speaking to interviewer from his office, with old pics of Amy and Jud in the background. Awww. And he sounds so damn smart and authoritative! I'm proud that my honey is somebody known around the state as an expert in his field. Plus he's pretty cute too.
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