It's Not Just A House, It's An Adventure!

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?Life was hard for the pioneers but every now and then someone would get out the fiddle and make it all worse?
Been feeling like a pioneer these days, setting in a home that the original foundation was laid by the pioneers in the 1860s. Packed up the wagon and headed out from Californy. You know its time to move when you start tripping on your neighbors spent brass.
I can?t believe what a beautiful place this is . Its been raining some but that?s what you expect from Oregon in the Spring, isn?t it.
Been doing pioneer stuff too: clearing fields of fires, mining the trails, digging bunkers, filling sandbags, stringing trip wire. You know: Richmond neighborly stuff. I hum delightedly while I work: You never outgrow you need for ammo.
Had a little contretemps with the previous owner viz: all the crap he left behind. I mean your rural junkyard. Whats with you rural people? Think you don?t have to go to the dump just because no one can see your property?? . Things are easier now I got Sid as my role model?just hauled out the ol? 15 shooter, grabbed the little long haired weasel up, stuck the 9 hole in his ear and said: ?Hey there hippie--How?d you like to be shaking hands with Elvis???
(??. I gotta beeeee meeeee! I Got to be meeeeeeeeeeeeee!
What else could I be but who I aaaammmm!...?
Frank Sinatra, another good role model)
Well the little fella just caved and saw sweet reason quicker?n a mortar round dents a Mermite Can, no doubt of it. Human relations are a whole lot easier now Ive come out of the closet as a gun owner and accepted Sid in as my personal role model!!
Ever notice how long hair and beards have gotten big in the country?? Dang I remember when only hippies wore em?back when I was a hippie. That was back in the Day when Willie Nelson didn?t even have beard stubble. Got in more than one fight with straight looking country folk who mistook me for a flower child back in The Day, they were surprised. I still smile when I think of it!
People up here seem to be cleaner, finer folk than Californians-clean limbed, strong jawed. Seems like all the sober, hard workers took the Oregon Trail while all the Scalawags headed for California to fleece the miners.
Hay Bob and Andy!! Oregon is governed by a Polack!! Yep, Governor Kolongoski (sp?) What does this portend?
This will be good for my son when he moves here, he?s half Polack and half African American?and that?s just on his mom?s side!! (ps: that?s WHITE African American, for those who already know my blonde blue eyed son)
Been looking for a good truck to buy and of course I mean a Ford, mebbe an F150 or 250 this time (Ive always liked Rangers because I WAS a Ranger, sort of). Used of course?A new Ford truck costs as much as I paid for my first House! ($30 K)(1972)
I wanted to wait till I got here to buy a truck because:
A theyre cheaper
B No sales tax
C Only a cursory smog check
D Did I say no sales tax?
No Sales tax!! That?s an 8.9%.discount over everything you can buy in CA!! (besides food.) I smile delightedly again.

I finally got the phone hooked up?Used to be you just called up Ma Bell and they sent a man out and hooked you up, had to wait all day for him?remember?? Now it takes you an hour just to find out which telephone company is yours, then they do it all from the office.
Theyre sending out the equipment for the High Speed Dial up?I wanted to get it on the Satellite but they said that?s about a year away from happening in this area.
So this is coming to you by way of the Earthlink/dialup thing?it?s peripatetic.
They got a strange power company: The power cooperative?sounds like something you find in Moscow but folks here got raped by Enron almost as much as CA did?it?s a self defense issue.
I mentioned before that Oregon is The Place Most Like Tennessee Outside of Tennessee, didn?t I. My Volunteer friends are going to feel right at home here, I?m even starting to talk rural too: ?Yep bub, you jist take the Harrisboig Road till you come to Red Briggs place, make a left on 228 and follow that till you get to see a big feed store, then?..?
Its going to be fun here?Oh look there?s something to kill!!
Back soon!!
Stay good, all

James

picture shows the place--first thing I'm gonna do is paint it cammo