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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Verdena:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Do you mean "Pretty boxes, made of ticky tacky. Pretty
boxes all in a row."?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>That describes most of America today.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>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".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>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.
:-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>And there isn't a "pretty box" within miles of that
location.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.<BR>PO Box 530833<BR>San Diego CA
92153<BR>FAX 619-428-6434<BR><A
href="mailto:cchouk@cox.net">mailto:cchouk@cox.net</A><BR>ANDERSON - BLAKELY -
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=vveelle@molalla.net href="mailto:vveelle@molalla.net">Verdena
Veelle</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:38
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Jeremiah Shea's
Roses</DIV>
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<DIV><EM>Cecil, sometimes I think there is just too much "improvement" going
on in these parts. For instance the nice rich, fertile soil on flat land
being put into houses or as Burl Ives referred to them "pretty boxes".
There is a place for houses and a place for growing food (and flowers) but
money seems to the main motive now.</EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM>Verdena</EM></DIV>
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<A title=cchouk@cox.net href="mailto:cchouk@cox.net">Cecil Houk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots</A> ; <A
title=OREGON-L@rootsweb.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 14, 2004 5:59
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Jeremiah Shea's
Roses</DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial>Jeremiah Shea's Roses</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Not to steel Walt's thunder, BUT...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>When we lived in the Shea house at Foster, there were
many roses in front of that house. If you look closely at the photo
at:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><A
href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/3/foster-house0.jpg">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/3/foster-house0.jpg</A></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>You can see them along the wooden walkway between the
house and the highway. On either side (along the front edge of the
property), there were "rambling roses"; red. I can't swear that Mr.
Shea planted these roses, but I'd like to think so.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>One day the Highway Department "improved" HWY 20 by bull
dozing the rambling roses.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>I've not seen any of the roses that were there in the
1940's since.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></P></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.<BR>PO Box 530833<BR>San Diego
CA 92153<BR>FAX 619-428-6434<BR><A
href="mailto:cchouk@cox.net">mailto:cchouk@cox.net</A><BR>ANDERSON - BLAKELY
- FORD - HOUK - KIMSEY - MOE - RULAFORD - SIMPSON<BR>Searchable GEDCOM: <A
href="http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk">http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk</A><BR>My
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