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<blockquote data-quote="crazymama30" data-source="post: 252377" data-attributes="member: 3184"><p>I was born in Arcata, CA. We moved around quite a bit when I was tiny as my dad worked for the Forest Service. When I was about 5 we moved to a Ranger Station in the middle of the Ochoco Mountains in Oregon. It is truly in the middle of no where. I went to a very small school up untill 4th grade. There was a teacher for K thru 4, a teacher for 5 thru 8 who was also the principal (no vice principal or anything else) We had PE and music once a week as the teacher had to drive 1 1/2 to 2 hrs one way to get to us. The secretary was the librarian. We had 2 bus drivers, and one was also the cook and custodian. I went to school with ranch kids and other ranger station kids. I was a tomboy. For fun we played in the creek, and tried to avoid rattle snakes. When we went grocery shopping in the town of 25,000 I was scared because the town was so big. lol. To me it was huge. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There were feral wild pigs in the area, and I remember I went to a ranch kid's birthday party. We were playing outside untill one of the mom's spotted the pigs. We all had to go in the house. Now I think you can hunt them out there with just a hunting license, no tag, as there are so many and they bother the ranchers so much.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Then when I was in fourth grade we moved to the town where we live now. That was a culture shock, as I went from the boondocks to the "big city". Took a while to fit in, but I made it eventually. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I still go camping out by the ranger station, it is a great place to camp with a difficult child family, as there is no one else around. difficult child can be so loud that when people want quiet when they go camping if he is there they do not get it. There are still beavers in the creeks there, and people wave to you as you drive by even if they do not know you. I do miss it sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crazymama30, post: 252377, member: 3184"] I was born in Arcata, CA. We moved around quite a bit when I was tiny as my dad worked for the Forest Service. When I was about 5 we moved to a Ranger Station in the middle of the Ochoco Mountains in Oregon. It is truly in the middle of no where. I went to a very small school up untill 4th grade. There was a teacher for K thru 4, a teacher for 5 thru 8 who was also the principal (no vice principal or anything else) We had PE and music once a week as the teacher had to drive 1 1/2 to 2 hrs one way to get to us. The secretary was the librarian. We had 2 bus drivers, and one was also the cook and custodian. I went to school with ranch kids and other ranger station kids. I was a tomboy. For fun we played in the creek, and tried to avoid rattle snakes. When we went grocery shopping in the town of 25,000 I was scared because the town was so big. lol. To me it was huge. There were feral wild pigs in the area, and I remember I went to a ranch kid's birthday party. We were playing outside untill one of the mom's spotted the pigs. We all had to go in the house. Now I think you can hunt them out there with just a hunting license, no tag, as there are so many and they bother the ranchers so much. Then when I was in fourth grade we moved to the town where we live now. That was a culture shock, as I went from the boondocks to the "big city". Took a while to fit in, but I made it eventually. I still go camping out by the ranger station, it is a great place to camp with a difficult child family, as there is no one else around. difficult child can be so loud that when people want quiet when they go camping if he is there they do not get it. There are still beavers in the creeks there, and people wave to you as you drive by even if they do not know you. I do miss it sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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