John T. Jones, Ph.D.

Thank you for visiting this lens. I am a retired old man living in South Central Idaho which means I live out in the boonies. It is so desolate in places that even the sage hens are leaving. Well, really, they are having environmental problems. We are trying to save them. Sage hens kept my dad and his family from starving in the old west so I'm attached to them.

We have wolves around here. They migrated down from the north. Now the fish and game is using helicopters to shoo them back. They don't seem to be shooing. Anyway, now we have a wolf hunt but most of the hunters can't find them so we still have too many. It snowed here early in October (a couple of days before I updated.) Maybe they will be able to track them.

One guy shot a wolf from an ultra-lite. He is in big trouble with the Fish and Game.

My father didn't get to Idaho until he was a teen. He sat with his father on a homestead on Ten Mile Pass which is near Soda Springs, Idaho. To keep from starving, he made some skis that didn't work but his father, being able to do such things, soak the tips in boiling water to turn them up, singe the wood to make it hard, and then waxed the skis with saddle wax. Swish! Father was able to hunt.

Dad hunted those hills for coyotes. When I was a baby, he wrote "Will a Coyote Commit Suicide?" It was published by the Rocky Mountain News which recently collapsed after 150 years of publishing. Anyway, my mother used the money to buy me milk. That was in 1932.

I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1932. I was a high-school dropout who preferred studying on my own to being cramped in a classroom. I was very interested in birds at the time and I had my ill mother to take care of so I really didn't have time for school.

Besides, I was growing up in the war years (WWII) and I fully expected to be in the service fighting in some far off land. I distinctly remember when Hitler invaded Poland and I was frightened knowing that Hitler was a book burner and I was a book reader.

The brother of my brother-in-law told me there was never a day that he went into the Spencer Branch of the Salt Lake City Library that I was not there. Well, it was my favorite place. My goal was to read every book in the library but I found that many were just to boring to mess with. Later I learned those dull book are called The Classics.

I distinctly remember the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy. My cousin and I looked into the western sky for airplanes with the rising sun on their wings. Well, they never got that far inland. However, their balloons did, starting forest fires and killing some kids and their teacher up in the Northwest.

My older brother served three (3) years in the Navy, sailing the Pacific. He was at Okinawa during the invasion with hundreds of kamikazes buzzing overhead.Then the typhoon came sinking some ships and scattering the others to the wind. My brother tied himself into his bunk and lived on oranges.

My time for service came in 1950. I served in Korea with the 17th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, Seventh Division as a forward observer, a platoon sergeant and field first sergeant. One of our officers wanted me to go to OCS so he had me take some test. He said I scored at college sophomore level and that the information was sent to Salt Lake City. I shortly received my high school diploma which I have to this day, probably in box in the garage.

I was at the University of Utah from 1952-1957 and again 1962-1965. Except for six (6) years teaching engineering at Iowa State University, I worked as an R & D or some other kind of business executive. After I retired, I edited an international trade magazine.

My hobbies are Internet Marketing, painting, writing, fishing and driving my grand kids around of which I have a plethora--32 at last count (we lost Jeremy, age 23) with 5 great-grand kids. Three of my great grandkids are not quite done but they are girl, girl, boy according to the scans.

I was an active scouter for years but other than attending annual fish fry, I'm too old for that business. Scout masters should be able to do at least three push-ups.

I retired 15 years ago. I wrote four (4) novels then switched to short stuff. Put John T Jones PhD in Google and you will see my articles pop up. There are over 500 at EZA alone.

I am an Internet marketer, not a great one, but I do have a lot of fun helping others to get started. I teach them and then they teach me. It is a great arrangement.

To learn more about Internet Marketing go to my site: Internet Business Tool Center

Fly Old Glory!

John