Comments on: About Me http://aullori.wordpress.com A commentary on rural living... Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:18:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: aullori http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4351 aullori Tue, 05 May 2009 22:18:40 +0000 #comment-4351 Hi Sandy, thank you for visiting and rambling too! I get such a cool perspective of this little town from people who've visited it and/or lived here. I think the cemetery you might be talking about is Kelly Hill Cemetery. One of these day's I'll post on it. It is such a neat place full of birdhouses and the people go back to the days I think people first started settling here. Boyd's (your right there too) is actually where I live. Right in between Kettle Falls and Orient, since Boyd's does not have a p.o. box anymore they aren't really classified as a town. Another ghost town along this route.... I really hope that you and your friend meets up here.. so far that's happened twice. Feel free and email me aullori@hotmail.com your email and if I hear from her I will pass the info along. Your gale force winds are in my prayers, maybe the Big Guy will mellow it a bit? I sure hope so and ramble all you like! ;o) Hi Sandy, thank you for visiting and rambling too! I get such a cool perspective of this little town from people who’ve visited it and/or lived here. I think the cemetery you might be talking about is Kelly Hill Cemetery. One of these day’s I’ll post on it. It is such a neat place full of birdhouses and the people go back to the days I think people first started settling here. Boyd’s (your right there too) is actually where I live. Right in between Kettle Falls and Orient, since Boyd’s does not have a p.o. box anymore they aren’t really classified as a town. Another ghost town along this route…. I really hope that you and your friend meets up here.. so far that’s happened twice. Feel free and email me aullori@hotmail.com your email and if I hear from her I will pass the info along. Your gale force winds are in my prayers, maybe the Big Guy will mellow it a bit? I sure hope so and ramble all you like! ;o)

]]> By: Sandy Stewart http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4350 Sandy Stewart Tue, 05 May 2009 14:54:16 +0000 #comment-4350 Lori , I came across your site while looking for a friend who grew up in Orient . She lived across the street from the school when they first moved there ( I'm guessing over 30 years ago now ) . Her grandparents owned the little store which is how she, her mom Nancy ,and brother Donnie came to live there . Jim and Betty Briggs are long gone now , and my dear friend Nancy also . We visited a cemetery high on a ridge that I thought was east of town but my memory is fuzzy so could be wrong . I came over for Stacey's wedding which was at a beautiful home north of Orient on the Kettle river . I seem to remember a place called Boyds ? This had to be 20 years ago now . I've lost track of Stacey over the years but hope to find out where she is and come visit . I will always remember how beautiful the area is and how much fun we had exploring the town . Thanks for letting me ramble on Lori . I live west of Silverdale on Hood Canal , we are under gale force wind warnings at the moment ( crazy weather ) although I can see blue sky to the south . Wish I was in Orient . Sandy Lori ,
I came across your site while looking for a friend who grew up in Orient . She lived across the street from the school when they first moved there ( I’m guessing over 30 years ago now ) . Her grandparents owned the little store which is how she, her mom Nancy ,and brother Donnie came to live there . Jim and Betty Briggs are long gone now , and my dear friend Nancy also . We visited a cemetery high on a ridge that I thought was east of town but my memory is fuzzy so could be wrong .
I came over for Stacey’s wedding which was at a beautiful home north of Orient on the Kettle river . I seem to remember a place called Boyds ? This had to be 20 years ago now . I’ve lost track of Stacey over the years but hope to find out where she is and come visit . I will always remember how beautiful the area is and how much fun we had exploring the town . Thanks for letting me ramble on Lori . I live west of Silverdale on Hood Canal , we are under gale force wind warnings at the moment ( crazy weather ) although I can see blue sky to the south . Wish I was in Orient .
Sandy

]]> By: aullori http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4290 aullori Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:51:35 +0000 #comment-4290 yes, Mary I'd be happy to allow that.. thank you for asking! yes, Mary I’d be happy to allow that.. thank you for asking!

]]> By: mary http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4289 mary Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:00:14 +0000 #comment-4289 hello, Would it be ok with you if I used your photo of a pearly everlasting flower as part of a flier for our Valentine Day Bike Ride? It is a flower of love, and such a nice shot! please reply to maldern@riverparkway.org. Thanks! hello,
Would it be ok with you if I used your photo of a pearly everlasting flower as part of a flier for our Valentine Day Bike Ride? It is a flower of love, and such a nice shot! please reply to maldern@riverparkway.org. Thanks!

]]> By: aullori http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4284 aullori Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:08:43 +0000 #comment-4284 Again - it's fine Micheal I really did appreciate your honest comments. In one post I make a few jokes about how popular we are in horror flicks. If the only "media" coverage we get is about chainsaw wielding psychopaths & the movies like deliverance it's actually amazing to me that anyone (like yourself) could even consider the notion of retiring in an area like ours. But your more then welcome .. now if your a democrat your vote is probably going to be washed out easily (mine is...) but I think that's slowly changing. :o) (our last meeting had about 300 people which shocked me!) Meanwhile if you wander in this direction consider it an open invite to have some coffee with my family! Again – it’s fine Micheal I really did appreciate your honest comments. In one post I make a few jokes about how popular we are in horror flicks. If the only “media” coverage we get is about chainsaw wielding psychopaths & the movies like deliverance it’s actually amazing to me that anyone (like yourself) could even consider the notion of retiring in an area like ours. But your more then welcome .. now if your a democrat your vote is probably going to be washed out easily (mine is…) but I think that’s slowly changing. :o ) (our last meeting had about 300 people which shocked me!) Meanwhile if you wander in this direction consider it an open invite to have some coffee with my family!

]]> By: michael http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4283 michael Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:47:51 +0000 #comment-4283 sorry about that. thanks for helping me be more acquainted. i lived in north carolina before i came to washington for school. i really shouldn't judge people so quickly. i think i get some of my views from my dad. when i initially came to wsu for school orientation, the first time i went through colfax, he made a comment of the town depicting everyone who lived there in an extremely negative light. over time, i have learned to love the eastern side of washington and truly appreciate nature. my eventual goal in life is to be able to live in a small town like orient after retirement and be closer to nature. sorry about that. thanks for helping me be more acquainted. i lived in north carolina before i came to washington for school.

i really shouldn’t judge people so quickly. i think i get some of my views from my dad. when i initially came to wsu for school orientation, the first time i went through colfax, he made a comment of the town depicting everyone who lived there in an extremely negative light.

over time, i have learned to love the eastern side of washington and truly appreciate nature. my eventual goal in life is to be able to live in a small town like orient after retirement and be closer to nature.

]]> By: aullori http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4281 aullori Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:27:46 +0000 #comment-4281 Hi Micheal, first, I completely appreciate your candor I try to dispel some of the gun toting myths concerning us rural folks. (on this site I commonly joke about that belief...) I can say that I've spent a lot of time investigating myself and so far haven't met up with a gun - even on the days I unknowingly drive up someones six mile "driveway." If I was a minority my experiences might be different but I don't think so. Really Orient has a lot more hippies then rednecks - you might be surprised. You'd be noticed (all newcomers are...) but your more likely to be able to buy a painted gourd in Orient then meet up with anyone toting a rifle. p.s. for reference sake the term "redneck" is rarely associated with Washingtonians. Hi Micheal, first, I completely appreciate your candor I try to dispel some of the gun toting myths concerning us rural folks. (on this site I commonly joke about that belief…) I can say that I’ve spent a lot of time investigating myself and so far haven’t met up with a gun – even on the days I unknowingly drive up someones six mile “driveway.” If I was a minority my experiences might be different but I don’t think so. Really Orient has a lot more hippies then rednecks – you might be surprised. You’d be noticed (all newcomers are…) but your more likely to be able to buy a painted gourd in Orient then meet up with anyone toting a rifle. p.s. for reference sake the term “redneck” is rarely associated with Washingtonians.

]]> By: michael http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4280 michael Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:02:51 +0000 #comment-4280 when i used to go to school at wsu (2003-2008) in pullman, i would on occasion drive up 395 through colfax, then spokane, then colville, then through laurier, and in to BC and go as far as i could go north in a weekend. i have reached nakusp, revelstoke, kamloops, and finally into wells gray provincial park. i always passed by orient and was always afraid to go into the town and do what i always like to do while taking a road trip alone, explore. i am a very curious person so i would have liked to gone in to take a look. i am a minority and i would stupidly get a stereotypical image of backwoods, rednecks toting guns and trying to shoot me if i got onto the property. i am sorry but the image has always prevented me from ever going in. guess i am just afraid. when i used to go to school at wsu (2003-2008) in pullman, i would on occasion drive up 395 through colfax, then spokane, then colville, then through laurier, and in to BC and go as far as i could go north in a weekend. i have reached nakusp, revelstoke, kamloops, and finally into wells gray provincial park.

i always passed by orient and was always afraid to go into the town and do what i always like to do while taking a road trip alone, explore. i am a very curious person so i would have liked to gone in to take a look.

i am a minority and i would stupidly get a stereotypical image of backwoods, rednecks toting guns and trying to shoot me if i got onto the property. i am sorry but the image has always prevented me from ever going in. guess i am just afraid.

]]> By: lee http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4274 lee Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:35:13 +0000 #comment-4274 I stumbled onto your web site and was happy to see that you have the same passion for the upper Columbia that my wife and I have. We bought land near Sherman creek Orchard many years ago and have been building a home for the last three years. I really like all of your links that are helpful in getting more information about local flora and fauna. We are from Puyallup and I am a semi-retired Architect. Since moving here we both became volunteer fire fighters with district 3/8. We are both absolutely in love with the Kettle Crest. I stumbled onto your web site and was happy to see that you have the same passion for the upper Columbia that my wife and I have. We bought land near Sherman creek Orchard many years ago and have been building a home for the last three years.
I really like all of your links that are helpful in getting more information about local flora and fauna. We are from Puyallup and I am a semi-retired Architect. Since moving here we both became volunteer fire fighters with district 3/8.
We are both absolutely in love with the Kettle Crest.

]]> By: Tom http://aullori.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4268 Tom Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:55:46 +0000 #comment-4268 I have a picture of a berry tree that I would like to have identified. Can someone please direct me on how to get this done? Thanks! I have a picture of a berry tree that I would like to have identified. Can someone please direct me on how to get this done?

Thanks!

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