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Pictures & Thoughts from my past and present, so enjoy, have fun, whatever, whatever

Dad age 24

JoJo age 4

These next two pics of JoJo, were taken at our second leased house on 815 Alberton in wolverine Lake Michigan. I was still working as a dealership transmission tech at the time. Circa 1996... In the second of the two pics, Jo is standing in front of our ehm...cough...ehm... 1984 Chevy Celebrity Station Wagon, may it rest in peace.

Well here she is, all 6 acres and 1765 sq. ft. of her. Corinne and I were so much in love when we bought this home. I had just started working for General Motors Tech Asst., I had seen a posting on the bulletin board in the coffee room, for this beautiful 4 bed 2 full bath centennial home. It was built in 1848 so it was about 148 years old when we moved in.

Still living at 815 Alberton, Corinne and I never thought for one minute we could ever get a loan for the house, we just wanted to dream a little. So we called and asked if we could view the home. It was like 8 or 9 in the evening and the people asked us over right away. So we packed up the kids and started our little adventure.

The drive to the home was breath taking. The road leading to the house was an all dirt road, "good thing we had a Jeep". It was a young couple who owned the home, and they wanted so much for people who loved it as much as they did to buy it.

What a bitch moving everything in. It took 3 days, man we had allot of shit. "Funny thing is it only took Corinne 8 hours to move everything out". LOL... This shot is of our 6 acres, notice the Brewder house to the left for chickens and the Stables off to the right next to the barn. Ok Ok I'm gonna come clean, the neighbors nextdoor owned the horses. Just look at that kick ass lawn. Don't even get me started on how I had to mow that shit without a tractor, or a riding lawn mower.

All my records from my former life were lost by my brother Steven when I arrived here to Los Angeles. I left a duffle bag at Stevens apartment when I moved in with Myke Michaels and his daughter Maysen. Steven moved and when he did he thought there was nothing of any real value in the bag "good one Steve". Anyway the 1200 bldg in Oakland County Michigan, has a copy of the deed with mine and Corinne's name on it, in the register of deeds office. If your feeling real daring call up Tim Grogan the attorney who handled my Bankruptcy, he would be the one who could tell you what I owned. His number and address is
Tim Grogan, 3176 Penobscot Bldg, Detroit MI 48226, Phone 313-963-6240, Fax 313-963-8599. He does great work by the way. Why I'm telling you all of this I haven't a clue, yet it is a part of my history...

Ahh that beautiful front porch, it wrapped all the way around the left side of the house. Now that's a front porch ladies and gentlemen. There was a constant breeze that could always be felt coming from the south east corner of the house, notice where Johnny is sitting he's no fool, right there was the sweet spot, man those blast of air were enough to cool down a herd of elephant, no offense Johnny, lol. By the way that is Cor's parents Rock'n Johnny Rayden and Lynn, great people.

Corinne's son Jessie just kick'n back enjoying the view

Johnny and Lynn try'n out the swing...

A proud mama with her baby...

The woman who changed my life for the better Corinne

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