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<DIV><EM>Cecil,</EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM>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.</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@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:43
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Jeremiah Shea's
Roses</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Verdena:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Do you mean "Pretty boxes, made of ticky tacky. Pretty
boxes all in a row."?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<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
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