This website will let you know about our family, our vocations, avocations, and our values.

We invite your comments or questions in your emails-- see the About Us and Contact Us sections.

Features on this site

Check back to these pages periodically, because new information is being added to them.

• Puppy Stories will let you read stories written by our bassett hounds--well, at least written from their perspective.
• Bob and Okino Erabu contains musings about Bob's one year stay on a Japanese island during most of 1959.
• The Photo Gallery has a wide mix of photos arranged in albums... enjoy perusing.
• Family Timeline is a chronological list of major events in our family's life.
• **NEW Shaffer/Hellein Family Ancestry. These pages will tell what we have learned about our ancesters, our family history. 
• Lain's Gowns will give you insight about Lain's wedding gown business and designing custom wedding gowns.
• Little Known Facts will enlighten you with tongue-in-cheek facts and brighten your day.
• Quotations We Like are gathered from here and there. Reading them will allow you to see some of the thinking and personality of Bob and Lain. Checkout the new page: A Child's Wisdom.
• Gino Rossi's Photography is a display of some of the life work of our friend Gino Rossi, currently of Medford, Oregon. Gino loves photography—just ask him and he will tell you! and tell you, and tell you...

Our favorite links

Find out the truth about Jehovah's Witnesses,

visit www.watchtower.org

What are their beliefs and activities?

Is their Bible different? Read it online.

 

Weather 

Cottage Grove, Oregon, Weather 

 

WebCams around Oregon 

I-5 near Cottage Grove, Oregon

Willamette Pass, in the Cascades

Yaquina Bay Jetty, Newport, Oregon

 

Track a Flight at FlightExplorer.com

 

Space topics
All about Space at Space.com

and Hubble Telescope images