Our family moved to the Winchuck River Valley in 1999 with our pack of four dogs and two cats. We immediately created our piece of paradise building a large pond, adding more trees to the property and filling spaces with beautiful bushes, flowers and trees along woodchip paths, arbors and places to sit in the sun or sleep in the shade. We have an Aspen grove that I copied from the San Francisco Botanical Gardens. We have a hammock sitting in the deep shade of this grove. When you can't find one of us, we might be there! 

I have always collected and loved finding new places to find treasures. I soon found myself in town at an antique mall selling and loving every minute of it! It gave purpose to my need to shop! I travel 400 miles down to San Francisco area several times a year finding wonderful things on the way. My best friend in San Jose, CA also finds me items at garage and estate sales. Buying and selling is a passion.

 I became friends with Elmo and Lorraine Williams, who had retired to Brookings in the 1980's from Hollywood. Elmo was an Oscar-winning movie producer. They had lived in Europe several years; where they amassed a large collection of art and antiques along with movie memorabilia. They asked me to sell their extra pieces for them. You will find many of their treasures in my ebay store. 

Born in Oklahoma, Elmo Williams started his career as a film editor in London in 1933. Following his return to America in 1939, he continued working in this capacity until 1952, when he began directing.

He edited, directed and produced such classics as High Noon, The Vikings, The Longest Day, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Zorba the Greek, Blue Max and Tora Tora Tora! Among the many awards and prizes he received for his artistic brilliance were two Oscars.

Besides long stints in London and Hollywood, his activities also carried him for extended periods to Munich, Paris, Teheran, Athens, Tokyo and to many other exciting places around the world, as his three-volume autobiography reveals. If you are interested in purchasing his autobiography, please email me and I will forward the request to Elmo. 

In the fall of 2005, I decided to stop my running back and forth to town. I wanted to spend some time in my garden and hiking with my husband and the dogs. I opened up our Winchuck River Store on Ebay.

I am very pleased with my early success and plan to grow my business on a monthly basis. I have attended Ebay University; which lit my fire to learn more! I started sharing my eBay story at our local community college in their eBay class. I was encouraged to teach the class. I am now teaching eBay on a regular basis at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Brookings, OR. The local paper wrote an article about my website, Wichuck River Store and my eBay business; which led to meeting Jude Hodge an eBay Platinum Power Seller - GPSSpecials. We ended up forming a local internet owners co-op, www.lookwhosonline.com, for those of us who are continually learning how to do this business well and need to promote our businesses.

My husband is more interested in salmon and steelhead, but he is also always an engineer. He has built an electric powered kayak so that he can fish the rivers hands free. We have his design plans for sale in our store . I imagine we will be adding kayak equipment, gear, clothes, fishing stuff as he develops his end of the business. He just cannot get his head around my treasures. type in jimskayak.com to reach his website.

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