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** Welcome **
This website is designed to keep our friends and relatives up to date on what is happening with our family here in Southern Oregon.
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WEBSITE LAST UPDATED 7/15/03
You'll probably see some old pictures and some new.
So on behalf of Sonny, Lois, Derek, Micah & Patches.....Enjoy !!
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Yes...We're Back .....
After living in TN for four years, we decided it was time to come back to the Rogue Valley. You might say the weather didn't agree with us. Derek did attend and graduate high school while we lived in Maryville, TN., but the whole time, longed for the snow covered slopes of Mt. Ashland to resume his snowboarding passion.
We all made is cross country ok, but only after a uniqe experience. Read on below.... |
Getting Settled....
Lois and Derek had moved to the Rogue Valley in September and I came in November after the house sold in TN. After extensive house hunting, Lois found a nice house to be our new home. When the second caravan with myself, Derek & Racheal finally arrived, we proceeded to unload our furnishings into our new house.
It took a while to unpack all the boxes and move things around to where we wanted them, but slowly we became settled.
Micah is getting married to Stevie this June so plans are in the making for those festivities.
I'm sure this summer holds a lot of fun in the sun without the humidity. |
Wyoming...The Burmuda Triangle !!
When we moved to TN about four years ago, Micah and I were in a 25 foot moving truk and broke down between Laramie and Cheyene Wyoming. There we spent about two days until we had another truck and reloaded. Now that was fun!!
Coming back to Oregon is another story. I was in a 25 foot truck with a trailer on the back carrying my car. Derek was driving a 15 foot truck also with a trailer carrying his rail buggy. Rachel had flown out to help us drive and she was riding with Derek. We kept in contact with a pair of those small two-way-radios and were always in sight of each other.
It was about 3:30 on a Saturday afternoon, still daylight but snowing on the Interstate. There was a bit of snow on the groud, because it had snowed before we arrived. Suddenly my cell phone rang and it was Derek saying "We had a wreck!". I couldn't pull right over so I had to proceed about a mile ahead and turn around then head back. Derek & Rachel's truck had completely turned upside down and was in the median strip with all four tires up in the air. br
A trucker had stopped and put Rachel into his cab so she could lay down flat. I had called the State Police and rescue on the cell phone and they were arriving. Derek proceeded to go to Cheyene, 30 miles East with Rachel in the ambulance. I stayed at the sight until the truck was ready to be transported to a sight for reloading which was 30 miles West in Laramie.
So once again, there we were in the state of Wyoming for about 2 days and we were glad to leave.
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Derek & Rachel next to the rolled over truck..afterwards..
This is the truck that Derek and Rachel were in after it was towed to a shop and still held together with large straps to keep it together.
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