[or-roots] Pretty Boxes, etc.

[Glen Jones]

I was Just reading this post, I know there has been some discussion lately about non genealogical items but many of the stories I enjoy.
Verdena's comments about Elsie reminded me of stories my mother used to tell she was a young girl working with her mother in the logging camp their during one of the big fires.  Her Father, my grandfather was a jack of all trades, logger, barber, dentist, miner, Etc. and had came to Oregon in 1906 and worked throughout Oregon, Elsie, Alsea, Disston, Etc. and I have some old time photos of Horse logging etc. 1906-1914 era.
Glen Jones 
Portland, Oregon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Verdena Veelle<mailto:vveelle at molalla.net> 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us<mailto:or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us> 
  Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 2:06 AM
  Subject: [or-roots] Pretty Boxes, etc.


  Cecil,
  Guess I didn't quite have the words right but that is the song that I meant.  It seems that your brother used to live in Aurora which is of great historical value in Oregon BTW.  Anyway, close to Aurora is the town of Canby.  The farm where we used to go to buy broccoli, potatoes and other vegetables has houses and more houses all over it now.  Last year I think they still raised a few onions.  The housing development has the same name as the farm did.  The place in Elsie sounds great.  My husband used to log over there.  His father did the old horse logging-without the diapers of today I believe.  The sons, nine of them, were all involved in logging while they were still in grade school.
  Verdena
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Cecil Houk<mailto:cchouk at cox.net> 
    To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us<mailto:or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us> 
    Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:43 AM
    Subject: Re: [or-roots] Jeremiah Shea's Roses


    Verdena:

    Do you mean "Pretty boxes, made of ticky tacky. Pretty boxes all in a row."?

    That describes most of America today.

    I remember when there were orange trees by the gazillion in Orange County; along I-5.  Now it's "pretty boxes, pretty boxes all in a row"... As far as the eye can see.

    Just tonight, my dear wife (of 31 years), Rachel, said that she would like to live on the Morgan homestead at Elsie, OR.  It's too bad we didn't know that the place was for sale before it was sold.

    I spent a couple of weeks there in 1994 helping my aunt (Lovena Houk Morgan), prepare to move to Tacoma.  Gee!  She had the perfect "mosquito magnets".  I think you call them "bats".

    There was a mercury vapor steet lamp in her drive way that attracted the bugs, and I watched the bats fly through the swarm and saw it deminish, ever so slowly, night after night.  It didn't cost a cent.  :-)

    And there isn't a "pretty box" within miles of that  location.

    Cecil

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