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oregano

oregano

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  • oregano
    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!

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    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.
    oregano
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    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.
    oregano
    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
    oregano
    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.
    oregano
    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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    oregano
    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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    FayetheADHDsquirrel
    FayetheADHDsquirrel
    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.
    oregano
    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?"
    oregano
    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.
    FayetheADHDsquirrel
    FayetheADHDsquirrel
    I'm glad you are getting better. Hopefully all that extra sleep will help too.
    oregano
    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.
    oregano
    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.
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    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.
    oregano
    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.
    oregano
    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.
    oregano
    Did a huge Walmart food run yesterday (19 April). $375. A lot of canned food since I have no way to keep food cold. I intend on trying meat salting this summer.
    oregano
    My mom lives about a mile from an active rail line. While I was staying at her house recently I would hear the trains go by in the middle of the night and think of this song.

    Judge
    Judge
    Trains of a bygone era. I always think of this one...

    oregano
    oregano
    If you understood what it's like being trapped in my dad's former bedroom (complete with the certificates detailing the supposed "noble titles" he bought), with the relatives yelling at each other outside, unable to wander on the property due to them and unable to go for a drive bc Sacramento drivers are nuts...
    oregano
    Cool old thermometer I found at a flea market in Sutter Creek, Cal., while I was waiting out the snowstorm at me mom's house. The dumb seller stuck the price on it with masking tape right on top of the ad, which came off with the tape. Ugh.

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    oregano
    View from my front door on 3 February around 7:30am.About 2.5 inches (6cm) of snow overnight, and still falling.

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    Outdated
    Outdated
    Meanwhile in Australia:

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    oregano
    oregano
    @Judge I am located around 2800 foot elevation. Snow levels are always lower here. Also, it tends not to rain too much in a desert.

    @Outdated: Yep, the north and south hemispheres are weather opposites.
    Judge
    Judge
    Yes, I noticed that on the latest weather maps...so much more snow and at lower elevations. Kinda freaky. Yet here we are still having only rain, but very high winds in select areas. Not expecting much snow at the valley level, but a lot above 8000 feet. We sure need that snow and rain though.
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