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Four Years

We’ve been living in Oregon four years as of today. Still feels like home! Editing… I wanted to add this photo, taken just now:

I’m breaking up with Target.

My cats. Persnickety buggers. They like a certain food, and Target had this certain food, which was great, pretty much my only reason to go to Target, ever. Except they have now replaced our preferred food with their store brand which has an ingredient called “animal digest”. This is not an ingredient found in quality [...]

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Going to see the Carolina Chocolate Drops perform in the Oregon Zoo’s summer concert series in July… Can’t wait!

Goosebumps

There is this time of night — well, 1:30 in the morning to be exact — when the whole house is dark and the traffic on the highway has died down. I go into the kitchen where the windows aren’t covered and stare out at the hills and the silhouettes of all the trees that [...]

Template woes

Ugh. I’m trying to make both my blogs look nicer & it’s not going very well. I love all the free templates available from WordPress, but my lack of coding ability is catching up with me. There’s something not quite right about each one I try. I want MWV Local to look more professional – [...]

Glittering-up the classics

The other day I was at Costco and, as usual, made a run through the book section. What I saw there had me cracking up for the rest of the day: Classics. Right on. Why so amused, then? Because the books were all neatly displayed at the young-adult end of the table, next to the [...]

Inflammatory, much?

The Democrat Herald ran a story yesterday about a local apartment complex attempting to ban any kind of flag from being displayed on vehicles parked on the property. Somehow I doubt the apartment manager is going to win this one in the long run, but anyway, it’s the headline I have a problem with… Apartment [...]

Foster Lake

College or third grade?

I love this item from the Gazette-Times crime watch section today: OSU Department of Public Safety Tuesday, May 26 ANNOYING FLIRT: 2 p.m., Valley Library. Library staff complained that a male student was flashing the laser light from a computer mouse at other patrons, annoying them, despite being asked to stop. The student said he [...]

The Barn

Cute new comic strip over at comics.com… Click on it to see a larger version, my wordpress template is really too narrow for almost everything. Think I will change it soon. Fixed!