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Welcome to State of Oregon Eons
We welcome our newest friends with an interest in all things Oregon~There are few rules here; except for the following. This is a social community and in this Group we ask for your participation. Post and reply so we know you're here! Subject matter can be anything you have on your mind. You don't have to be in Oregon to love it. Be a part of our neighborhood and jump right in! We will all benefit from this sharing by finding new friends.
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A place to call home...
This morning on the Yahoo news page there was an article about houses are beginning to be built smaller. At one time the average being built was about 2500 sq. ft. they are now down around 2000ish if they're being built at all. With the exception of a few people with money. One guy is building a 49,000 sq. ft house with two basements. My question is how do you live in a house like that? Ever live in a huge house? Biggest house we ever lived in was 3600 sq. ft. it was a 1905, 3 story house, that was fun to remodel but very expensive and you had to be working on it all the time. I saw where the Spelling Mansion was sold recently and it was bigger than the house this house that's being built is. That is about 27 of my current houses in floor space. How do people live in a place like that?
Where the locals eat
You are driving through a town and realize you are getting hungry. You pick from the familiar mediocre fast food. Yet perhaps a block or two away there's a little cafe, that the locals know have the very best homemade __________.
Where are YOUR favorite, not to miss eateries in your town?
Where are YOUR favorite, not to miss eateries in your town?
Best Birthdays...
As you can see by our list on the side of the main page of our group, there are some among us having birthdays coming up. Which birthday stands out in your memory?
What would the perfect birthday for you be?
My most memorable birthday was the last time I had a real party. I was sixteen and there were about nine classmates there. We played simple games and had fun, good clean fun. A perfect birthday for me would be much the same as the one I remember, several good friends and/or family, playing simple games, good clean fun. (Maybe in Hawaii this time, ha-ha)
What would the perfect birthday for you be?
My most memorable birthday was the last time I had a real party. I was sixteen and there were about nine classmates there. We played simple games and had fun, good clean fun. A perfect birthday for me would be much the same as the one I remember, several good friends and/or family, playing simple games, good clean fun. (Maybe in Hawaii this time, ha-ha)
Working-Best and Worst
Some of us, maybe many of us, are passed the working for pay life. Can you remember your best job and your worst job? In my forty-five years of working my worst job was for a collection agency, trying to collect on medical bills in the dead of a Montana winter. I was always telling people where to go to find help, needless to say that was a short lived job for me. Strangely enough, my best job was working for the state as a volunteer program manager where I got to tell people where to go to find help and resources. Believe in destiny?
SUPER BOWL MEANS?
Do you watch the super bowl? For the ads? or the Game? If you don't watch it--what do you do? Personally, I watch the Puppy Bowl if it's on for awhile, then an old movie and if it crosses dinner time, go out to eat. There are lots of web sites where you can watch the ads if you want to. A couple are funny.
News item
In Yahoo news there was this little article about a chunk of Antarctica that's about to break off. Too bad they can't tow it to a drought stricken Africa and let it water something. Seen any interesting news that caught your eye? This is part of that article.
"Antarctica is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier (above) is actually more than 18 miles long, 800 feet across in places, and 180 feet deep.
And it's growing. In the next few months, scientists expect the glacier to create an iceberg about 350 square miles in area. It will probably float northward, melting as it goes."
"Antarctica is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier (above) is actually more than 18 miles long, 800 feet across in places, and 180 feet deep.
And it's growing. In the next few months, scientists expect the glacier to create an iceberg about 350 square miles in area. It will probably float northward, melting as it goes."
Eugene Pallette Ranch
between kp laying a Rose and Theo. talking of Elgin and sawmills in the woods,years ago while visiting family over in Halfway Oregon,my brother in law then and me took a trip over the hill to Imnaha,but we never made it to that town but discovered something more intresting.
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there was a lot of buildings,bunkhouses,shop and parts of the old sawmill and a generation plant.
i wish i would had a camera with me back then,besides the ranch the beautiful Imnaha valley.
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there was a lot of buildings,bunkhouses,shop and parts of the old sawmill and a generation plant.
i wish i would had a camera with me back then,besides the ranch the beautiful Imnaha valley.
Welcome new member to group
Glad to welcome hiRosemary to our group. It's always fun to have "new blood" in our midst.
EASY DRIVES
With the cost of gasoline supposed to go sky high this summer we may all have to take our vacations closer to home. Got favorite places to go? Got photos from those places? Here's an old favorite--Cannon Beach.
