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Flowers and it’s got to be fun travels
We drove a bit over an hour to Hood River Oregon to see the sights. Our first stop was the bakery and fruit stand at Packer Orchards. We got coffee and apple hand pies also called empanadas. We also got a homemade jar of dill pickles among other food stuffs. We sipped our coffee and…
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Peanut Boater and PNW poetry prose bugs
“Quick! The poetry section!” I said when we entered Annie Bloom’s Books. We were meeting our great niece for dinner and drinks but we were 20 minutes early so we stopped at a nearby independent bookstore. The clerk in Annie Bloom’s pointed to the nicely handwritten sign. Below is a photo of what I grabbed…
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Of civility, books, odd art and rice
I got my 2nd dose of the covid vaccine this week and I’m very glad! It did slow me down some so I did more than my usual reading, sketching and thinking. I avidly follow and read the letters written by historian Dr. Heather Cox Richardson. Often I use her letters on current events and…
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candy can
Dr. Bob Hoke had a little musical ditty he’d sing during our visits*: “Oh the candy man is made out of tin / It’s just the kind of world we’re in / so begin, begin, begin…”. I took this to mean that we don’t have to wait for “perfect” conditions to exist before we begin…
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