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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY

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It is four years today when Celia left this word, something I think about every day.    It is not all sorrow as I think back on her humor, w...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

THE BROKEN TRACTOR BRAKE

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About five or six months ago I received a recall notice from John Deere (JD) that a piece in the brake linkage, called the brake bell crank ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

THE STELLAR JAYS

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These birds are a nuisance and in many ways they know my routine.   Whenever I put sun flower seeds in the bird feeders they start screaming...
Friday, February 28, 2025

THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE

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The older I get the less I understand or wonder if I ever did understand about the human species and life in general.   We humans are compli...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

THE LONE FROG

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 Over the last couple of weeks there has been one frog that spends most of the night and part of the day crocking near the front of the hous...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

THE MYSTERY MAN

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Recently one of my neighbors sent out an email to all of us living on this hillside, which is 11 residents, about a tall man wearing a hood ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

FRED & ORVILLE

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In the spring of 1972 the Orleans Ranger District (RD) hired two seasonal employees, Fred and Orville, to work on the timber sale preparatio...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

CHRISTMAS DINNER

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For many years now ten of us have gathered for a Christmas potluck dinner at one of the homes of the ten as we would rotate from house to ho...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

THE FATAL HOT DOG

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Being raised Catholic in the 1950's we were not allowed to eat meat on Fridays and to do so was a terrible sin.    Fish sticks were serv...
Friday, November 29, 2024

CHILDHOOD MOUNTAIN MEMORIES

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Thoughts of my childhood take me back to fishing on Battle Creek with my dad while staying at a cabin in Mineral in the 1950's.   It was...
Monday, November 25, 2024

AN UNFORGETABLE THANKSGIVING

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One of my most memorable Thanksgivings was when I lived in Eugene from 1991 to 2000.    My two children were with me on Thanksgiving of 1992...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

YOU JUST NEVER KNOW

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After getting a hearing test today that revealed much hearing loss, and above all how my brain no longer understand certain sounds, I stoppe...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

THE WAR WITHIN US

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 We all have battles that we are fighting be it physical or mental ailments, addictions, injustice, financial problems, abuse, depression, l...
Monday, September 23, 2024

THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC

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This is one of the oldest yearly publications in the country dating back to 1792.   It contains many interesting articles on adventures, ast...