After eight years as resident manager at Sno-Cap Mini Storage in Sisters, Ore., Rich Barrell has begun to live his dream of living in a cabin in the woods. Barrell, 67, recently retired from the storage business and moved into the Sunriver, Ore., cabin he built with his wife, Nancy.

December 10, 2014

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Sno-Cap Mini Storage Manager Retires, Gets His Cabin in the Woods

After eight years as resident manager at Sno-Cap Mini Storage in Sisters, Ore., Rich Barrell has begun to live his dream of living in a cabin in the woods. Barrell, 67, recently retired from the storage business and moved into the Sunriver, Ore., cabin he built with his wife, Nancy.

The Barrells owned the property for several years with the goal of building the cabin for their retirement years. While Rich completed work on the cabin, Nancy filled in for him part-time at the storage facility. "I just turned 67 on [Nov.] 28th," Rich told the source. "We've paid for our cabin. We finished it and paid for it in August. It's ours. My wife said, ‘You’re done. You don’t need to work no more.’”

Nancy still maintains her job at Mid-Oregon Credit Union but told the source she “has retired from working Saturdays.”

The Barrells said one of the things they most enjoyed about managing the self-storage property was meeting people who had just moved to town and sharing their love of the Sisters Country region.

Rich Barrell also had high praise for John and Peggy Tehan, who own Sno-Cap Mini Storage. "I've had a lot of employers in my life," he said. "It was a real pleasure to have the best employers be the last people you worked for. I don't think I could have worked for better people than those two. They're absolutely fantastic people."

Prior to managing the self-storage facility, Rich served in the U.S. Navy and worked as a contractor and truck driver, according to the source. He was drawn to the Sisters region as a place to retire because he had fond childhood memories of swimming at Suttle Lake.

Now that he’s retired, Rich said he has plenty of cabin projects to complete, and he and his wife plan to explore the Northwest in an RV. "We're just going to kind of enjoy life," he told the source.

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