Post young pictures of you :)
10-30-2008, 10:56 AM
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Very cool, I like Beaverton a lot actually. We drove through and I was thinking I'd much rather live in Beaverton or Lake Oswego, etc. than the city.
Utah is also beautiful. When I was applying to grad schools U of U offered me a full ride, but I'd have to agree to live and work in Utah for a few years after graduation which I wasn't so into. I still kick myself sometimes for not doing that!
Utah is also beautiful. When I was applying to grad schools U of U offered me a full ride, but I'd have to agree to live and work in Utah for a few years after graduation which I wasn't so into. I still kick myself sometimes for not doing that!
10-30-2008, 10:58 AM
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I was wondering how Hawaii came into the picture!
10-30-2008, 11:02 AM
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I grew up being taught the miracles a little WD40 could perform.
This is my fav pic of myself. I think I was about 5. That was a bird that my mom rescued somewhere near our house. When I would jam on my instrument there, he would sit and chirp like he was singin' and such. We lived ~35 miles out of the nearest town right near Mt. Hood in Oregon so it was all about the outdoors, eating dirt, shooting stuff, tearing around in half a Subaru, setting fire to things with dad's WD40, you know - normal kid stuff. I have another pic but I can't find it anywhere.
This is a pic of the mountains where i lived around the time i was leaving.
10-30-2008, 12:55 PM
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sweet i got my drivers license in the dalles 
I grew up close to Multnomah falls and lived there from 79-93 then moved to portland for a few years then to beaverton for a few years then back to portland before i left oregon. My parents before they died also live on the oregon coast.. I so miss oregon!!! Took my husband there a few years ago and all he wants to do now is take the subys back and play hahaha he loved the area.
some pics of the area i lived
I grew up close to Multnomah falls and lived there from 79-93 then moved to portland for a few years then to beaverton for a few years then back to portland before i left oregon. My parents before they died also live on the oregon coast.. I so miss oregon!!! Took my husband there a few years ago and all he wants to do now is take the subys back and play hahaha he loved the area.some pics of the area i lived
We lived here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...=18&iwloc=addr
Look in the center, the building on the left was the house my Pops started building by himself in 1978. We had 108 acres of land there that went from the road to the creek at the bottom of the hill. When it snowed (3-6 feet) my Pops would make a sled trail for us kids that we could do *maybe* twice in a day, it was that long.. I was born in Portland and we officially moved out to the boonies when I was 2 in 1979. We lived there till about 1987-88 when we moved out to the OR coast (Manzanita) for 2 years and then moved to Hilo, HI till I came to this fine place in 1997.
Nobody caught my "half a Subaru" comment unless I missed it... My dad used to rebuild cars and he did a lot with Subarus. We had the front half of an old Sedan ('83 or so) which he made skids on the back and put a fuel tank under the passenger seat. Rode rough but was funny as hell to see the looks... The cleared area to the right of the other building was the 'yard which contained about 25 Subaru parts cars from 1974 to 1984. My jorb as a kid was to retrieve parts my pops asked for (lil red wagon and all) as well as getting them running w/out keys when I was about 5. I have a pic of me welding @ age 6 somewhere, got to find it. I did my first Suby engine swap at 8yrs old.
Now the property is still owned/operated by the people who bought it back in '88 using the same deisel-electric power system that my dad designed and built (wrote books about it, can get them on Amazon) and they are using it as an organic foods farm that actually supports a few nice restaurants in Portland.
I love Portland too, and we are up there for Christmas this year. Then out to the coast to Manzanita for a few nights.
Look in the center, the building on the left was the house my Pops started building by himself in 1978. We had 108 acres of land there that went from the road to the creek at the bottom of the hill. When it snowed (3-6 feet) my Pops would make a sled trail for us kids that we could do *maybe* twice in a day, it was that long.. I was born in Portland and we officially moved out to the boonies when I was 2 in 1979. We lived there till about 1987-88 when we moved out to the OR coast (Manzanita) for 2 years and then moved to Hilo, HI till I came to this fine place in 1997.
Nobody caught my "half a Subaru" comment unless I missed it... My dad used to rebuild cars and he did a lot with Subarus. We had the front half of an old Sedan ('83 or so) which he made skids on the back and put a fuel tank under the passenger seat. Rode rough but was funny as hell to see the looks... The cleared area to the right of the other building was the 'yard which contained about 25 Subaru parts cars from 1974 to 1984. My jorb as a kid was to retrieve parts my pops asked for (lil red wagon and all) as well as getting them running w/out keys when I was about 5. I have a pic of me welding @ age 6 somewhere, got to find it. I did my first Suby engine swap at 8yrs old.
Now the property is still owned/operated by the people who bought it back in '88 using the same deisel-electric power system that my dad designed and built (wrote books about it, can get them on Amazon) and they are using it as an organic foods farm that actually supports a few nice restaurants in Portland.
I love Portland too, and we are up there for Christmas this year. Then out to the coast to Manzanita for a few nights.
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