Shawn Pogue:  

Life As most of you know just a few short days after graduation from high school I made a B-line for the sunshine state to work for my brother (Steve). There were (as with all of us) big plans. Sherry Stitt and I did not end up together (not by my choice; although, we are still friends). I then met a girl who's father owned a sail boat and took me sailing with them. Flew to Hawaii then on to Auckland, NewZealand where I learned to sail a 52' boat, scuba dive, windsurf and many other things that go with boating. Our first trip met with disaster. We got slammed by a Typhoon, and , though,with a lot of hard work and survival determination we got enough power to find out where we were and were able to be towed into Norfolk Island to make repairs enough for the rest of the crew to limp back to Auckland for drydock repairs. I and the girl flew back to FL, we parted ways after a while. I spent many years in FL and ended up getting married there. My first daughter was born in FL as a miricle baby born@ 1lb & 13oz. Very trying as my first child but, what a wonderful young lady she has grown into with not a single thing wrong. The two older boys where hers from a previous marriage that I soon adopted at the ages of 3 and 5 years. As the children began school we quickly realized that this was NOT where we wanted our children to grow up as she was from Ohio and I from IN. So, we brought our family back to Fairmount for a couple of short years to be closer to my parents and help a friend on some remodeling projects which never really got started. After working some odd jobs (non career) we moved to OH where her family was. Mainly due to her mother passing from cancer. After her passing we were stuck there for about 4 years at which time I put my woodworking skills to use in a production level in a couple of different mills around Columbus,OH. Durring this time we had a son still born just a few days prior to his scheduled C-section. I then came across an offer f...Expand for more