No he actually had a business making model trees. He did quite well on the GATS circuit years ago. He got hired by a doc in swizerland to build and scenic his model RR so he made several trips over there and stocked his shop back here from the wlthers catalog with all his earnings to save tax money coming in or something like that. Well, a bunch of scum bags started leaching off him when he got back to the states. One night he wrote a note and checked out.
i just googled his business, his family is still carriying his business on. He made the best looking trees you had ever seen in your life.
https://sites.google.com/site/petitepinesnorthern/