This young man is Colin Rabe. I worked with Colin for about fifteen years in Salem. We went on many fires together. I visited him and his wife on Saturday. His wife left after I got there as there was a womans group meeting next door. Colin and I had a three hour gab fest talking about our co-workers that had died. It was a good time.
Then I went to our home site on Baxter Road. This is where we raised our family. Not a good time. This is the Pink Dogwood we planted in the mid 60's. It was in the center of the yard then. They have widened the road made it a paved two lane street with a center line, taking half the yard.
The lot is a three acre weed patch. The trees we planted are very big. When we planted them they were about a foot tall.
This tree is the one Bob Anderson shot the top out of trying out my new shot gun. It was about fifteen ft. tall at that time.
Mr. Hastay, the man we bought the place from, had no children and went to the Lutheran Church. He died in 1979 a year after we moved to a smaller home. He must have left his place to the church . They built this very large church next to our place.
The building is so large I couldn't get it in one shot. In the background you can see the Hastay home. Across the street from our place there is a subdivision with about twenty homes. Where I used to hunt.
I then went out to my brother's place in Stayton for a party they were having for his wife's family. The lady with her back to us is Doris. An old neighbor and the only name I can remember as it was my Mothers name. The man with his back is my brother-in-law Larry.
My sister Nova Ann. Nova Ann and Larry live next door to Rick and Joann.
My brother Rick. He is three years younger than I. He has lost a lot of weight this year. I also noticed he has lost a lot of hair.
This is Joann, Rick's wife. She is sitting in a Corvette that one of the guest came in. She and Rick have a collection of cars but no Corvettes. Yet.
Rick tried it on also.
This young man is Colin Rabe. I worked with Colin for about fifteen years in Salem. We went on many fires together. I visited him and his wife on Saturday. His wife left after I got there as there was a womans group meeting next door. Colin and I had a three hour gab fest talking about our co-workers that had died. It was a good time.
Then I went to our home site on Baxter Road. This is where we raised our family. Not a good time. This is the Pink Dogwood we planted in the mid 60's. It was in the center of the yard then. They have widened the road made it a paved two lane street with a center line, taking half the yard.
The lot is a three acre weed patch. The trees we planted are very big. When we planted them they were about a foot tall.
This tree is the one Bob Anderson shot the top out of trying out my new shot gun. It was about fifteen ft. tall at that time.
Mr. Hastay, the man we bought the place from, had no children and went to the Lutheran Church. He died in 1979 a year after we moved to a smaller home. He must have left his place to the church . They built this very large church next to our place.
The building is so large I couldn't get it in one shot. In the background you can see the Hastay home. Across the street from our place there is a subdivision with about twenty homes. Where I used to hunt.
I then went out to my brother's place in Stayton for a party they were having for his wife's family. The lady with her back to us is Doris. An old neighbor and the only name I can remember as it was my Mothers name. The man with his back is my brother-in-law Larry.
My sister Nova Ann. Nova Ann and Larry live next door to Rick and Joann.
My brother Rick. He is three years younger than I. He has lost a lot of weight this year. I also noticed he has lost a lot of hair.
This is Joann, Rick's wife. She is sitting in a Corvette that one of the guest came in. She and Rick have a collection of cars but no Corvettes. Yet.
Rick tried it on also.
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The old farm has really changed... That church wasn't there last time I was in town but thats been close to ten years.
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