MAPLETON, Iowa | Five years since winning $1 million, Bob Boehm stands in roughly the same place.

He's at the James G. Whiting Memorial Field Airport in Mapleton on Wednesday, filling tanks of crop-dusters with fungicide for corn raised by farmers in Monona and Crawford counties. He stands with co-workers and pals, Bill Creese, Tommy Weber, Mark Lorenzen and Greg Sisco.

"He hasn't changed a bit," Lorenzen says about Boehm in the wake of his $1 million win in the Iowa Lottery Mega Millions game on April 10, 2010. "We knew he wouldn't."

Boehm, who turned 66 on July 21, still lives in the same home in Denison. He's still a bachelor and he still drives a truck to work at GFG Agri-Service in Charter Oak. He's worked there for 25 years.

"I'm semi-retired now and getting close to retirement," he says.

Boehm can't remember his winning numbers from five years ago. The machine picked the winning combination. He remembers standing at the Kum & Go on Fourth Avenue South in Denison the day after the drawing. He presented the ticket, with nary an inkling it had won.

The clerk told Boehm that someone at the store had purchased a winning ticket worth $1 million. The machine didn't sound its bells and whistles when the clerk sent Boehm's ticket through the first time.

The second check took longer. The clerk, he recalls, stared at the computer before looking up to Boehm and saying, "We don't have enough money here."

Boehm figured he'd won $2,000. The clerk said he was wrong. He'd won $1 million.

Boehm didn't celebrate. He tucked the receipt away and headed to work in Charter Oak. It was April and he had chemicals to deliver to area farmers.

Co-workers urged Boehm to drive to Des Moines to claim his prize. A friend drove him to Iowa Lottery headquarters, where he took a lump-sum payment of $700,000, after taxes.

"The government got $300,000 right away," Boehm says, breaking down his $1 million prize.

I tell him about an ESPN "30 for 30" special that focuses on star athletes who've lost millions of dollars through bad investments, bad advice and bad company.

Boehm shakes his head. He keeps the same friends and lifestyle.

Oh, he did splurge a bit. Boehm treated his nieces and nephews to a trip to Germany to retrace the steps he took while serving there for the U.S. Army 45 years ago. The trip cost $14,500 but was well worth it.

He bought a new pickup in 2010 and bought another new truck this year, a GMC Canyon.

"And I went on a cruise to the Bahamas this year," he says.

But that's about it. Boehm doesn't sip fine wine and hasn't ever ridden in a limousine. He shops and dines as he has for years. He lives by himself and is content to be surrounded by his buddies, even if they rib him from time to time, as they do at the airport in Mapleton.

"I stick my hand out and he shakes it," Creese says as they laugh.

When I ask about his health, Boehm says he had hip replacement surgery in 2011.

"That was from sitting on that big billfold," Weber says as the group busts out in laughter.

Boehm laughs and rolls with the punches as a plane lands, pressing a semi-retired jackpot winner into duty.