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  • You take a mortal man / And put him in control / Watch him become a god / Watch people's heads a-roll...


    Entering "Megadeth" into Youtube search brings up this song as the first autofill option. I'm not the only one to see the relevance.
    The dumpster is on fire? What fire? I don't see a fire?

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    Dagan
    Dagan
    I was at a Spencer's store for once in however long, and they have autism shirts, stickers and mugs in there, all akin this kind of humor for us. They're great.
    oregano
    oregano
    I remember Spencers as the place where you went to buy adult items, not porn per se but items couples used in their bedroom lives. Spencers was mall oriented and I assumed they had died out with the indoor mall format.
    Dagan
    Dagan
    In fact, it was at an outlet mall. Tanger's...as they are called around here.
    Spotted at the entrance to my subdivision:

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    Somebody here actually has an account with Yreka Transfer, the local garbage hauler. There are two 90 gallon garbage cans getting blown around by the wind along the main road where the turnoff is. They doubled down on stupid and put a few things out that Transfer won't take since they're not in the cans.

    I don't need your civil war / It feeds the rich while it buries the poor / Your power hungry selling soldiers in a human grocery store, ain't that fresh?
    I am hoping to get potatoes in the ground this year. I have already mowed and raked the garden plot so tomorrow I will get the garden claw and rip up the soil, then use the hoe and make the rows. Then I will order the seed potatoes. Volcanic soil apparently is good for root veggies, but I only have 6 inches or so of soil.
    I got yet another jury duty summons. No matter what I do I keep getting tracked down, over and over. The American "justice" system is a cruel joke and I hate it, but they keep trying to force me to participate. Buzz off!

    Judge
    Judge
    LOL...reminds me of watching prospective jurors behave like asses directly to the judge. Used to be the fastest way to avoid serving.
    oregano
    oregano
    LOL one time the court rejected all my excuses and I had to wait in the courtroom to be questioned by the judge. One guy said he had a huge project due at work and couldn't step away from it. When the judge ignored that, he ranted incoherently until he was dismissed.
    oregano
    oregano
    The psych sent me a draft of the excuse letter for approval. My diagnosis is: 1) depressive type schizoaffective disorder and 2)unspecified obsessive compulsive disorder/. A court will see "schizo" and run away screaming. All I have to do is present it to the jury clerks.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    That is so beautiful. You have mountain view too.
    oregano
    oregano
    Sadly I will have to cut it down soon due to local fire prevention regulations. I have a mower that doesn't use a motor of any kind, because powered lawn equipment hits the rocks here and sparks, which has caused numerous fires over the years.
    Tomorrow I am headed to Seaside, Oregon, to peruse the ham radio flea market at the ARRL Northwestern US convention. I don't have an ARRL membership so I'm not going to anything except the flea market, which doesn't require it. SEA-PAC
    Mount Shasta looms over the Shasta Valley, Siskiyou County, California, 20 May. It looks better in person.

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    Gerald Wilgus
    Gerald Wilgus
    Spectacular. The chain of Cascades volcanoes are imposing. A while back I was doing work on the Pacific Crest Trail on Mount Hood and backpacked around it. Depending where we were I could see the Three Sisters to the South and Mount Adams to the North. The view of Mount Saint Helens and its blasted peak was impressive.
    Gerald Wilgus
    Gerald Wilgus
    On Mt. Hood, I started and ended at Timberline Lodge, the external shots in The Shining, and stayed there. It is another grand gift by the CCC (my father was in the CCC) which did so much for us.
    Gerald Wilgus
    Gerald Wilgus
    I was there in July. It was a welcome stay after a week of Backpacking. We did have snowfields to cross and streams to ford. One day we hiked up Yokum Ridge and watched house-sized chunks of ice fall down. The man who supplied the massive Ponderosa Pine pillars in Timberline Lodge was paid $25 each.
    California golden poppies growing wild near my home, 20 May. This is the official state flower and picking or otherwise harming them is actually a felony under CA law.

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    The Wood Family House, Eagle Point, Oregon, 17 May 2025:

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    oregano
    oregano
    And don't forget pumping water by hand. In the 1940s "running water" was piped into the kitchen, consisting of a sink with a small indoor hand pump attached.

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    FayetheAspie
    FayetheAspie
    Is that your home?
    oregano
    oregano
    No, of course not. That is the home of one of the first homesteaders in Oregon's Rogue Valley, built in 1870. It is now a museum that is only open 4 days a year, mainly in fall. I live in Siskiyou County, California.
    Going to tour Eagle Point's regionally famous Wood House tomorrow.

    The Wood House

    Links are at the top of the page. If it looks familiar, you may have seen it in a painting somewhere-it became a backdrop for many artists when it was abandoned.
    oregano
    oregano
    The house is only open four times a year: spring festival (May), harvest festival (September or October, can't remember precisely), Halloween, and Christmas.
    8398
    8398
    I'm from southern oregon as well! I was thinking, "could they really be meaning MY eagle point?"
    Still recovering from my infection. Been taking antibiotics and cough suppressant pills so I don't have to use DMT cough syrup. I slept 12 hours straight last night.
    FayetheAspie
    FayetheAspie
    I'm glad you are getting better. Hopefully all that extra sleep will help too.
    My mom was worried that I might have pneumonia so I got up and out early to drive to Medford to get myself checked out. The xrays came back clear. I have a 5 day regimen of antibiotics and some pills to quiet the coughing.
    Took too much cough syrup by accident. Gag. And to think I got carded at Walmart because teenagers actually LIKE making themselves sick from it and call it a "high". I hate people.
    oregano
    oregano
    @Judge the problem with cough syrup is a substance called DMT. Consume enough of it and you get a weird high including hallucinations. A decade ago kids made it into "sizzurp" or "purple drank" by mixing it with other stuff.
    oregano
    oregano
    At worst kids got strokes and ended up brain damaged or worse. Demi Lovato is a well-known survivor of addiction-induced strokes. She can no longer drive (a big problem in Los Angeles) and sometimes goes public with crazy claims. Big holes in her brain from it.
    oregano
    oregano
    Small town Walmarts card everybody who tries to buy cough syrup-small town, bored kids, pliant adults. Yreka Walmart carded me for trying to buy construction-strength adhesive if you can believe it. Huffing, I guess. Reality stinks, but is still better than the alternative.
    I drove to Ashland to mail a package on Monday and somehow ended up with a nasty upper respiratory infection. I must have gotten it at the downtown Safeway where I went to get a little food.
    Xinyta
    Xinyta
    Sometimes food is poison. Especailly if it's not prepared well.
    Gonna plant potatoes this year. Did some googling, root veggies do well in volcanic soil, but the layer of clay 8 inches down complicates things. May try lettuce too.
    TBRS1
    TBRS1
    Maybe building a raised bed to extend the depth so you can stay above the clay.

    Some people grow potatoes on the ground by covering the seed potatoes in deep (10-12 in) straw.
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