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oregano

oregano

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  • oregano
    Mount Shasta looms over the Shasta Valley, Siskiyou County, California, 20 May. It looks better in person.

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    Yeshuasdaughter
    Yeshuasdaughter
    When my daughter was little, we camped at the base of Mt. St. Helens, way out deep on hunting land. There was ash everywhere, still. When anchoring the tent, one had to dig through a good six inches of loose ash to find the topsoil. There was a new, thick, baby forest, with conifers about 20 feet tall, yet spindly. During this time, St. Helens was erupting again. Just a little smoke plume, however.
    Yeshuasdaughter
    Yeshuasdaughter
    RE Mt Hood- It is creepy to see the south side of the lodge where they store the snow cat and imagine poor Shelley Duvall chased through the snow.

    But on the inside it looks totally different. Very warm and inviting, cozy. The cafe serves the most decadent cup of cocoa I've ever had.

    Was there snow on the ground when you were there?

    Often there's deep snow and glaciers in summer. It's always cold up on Hood.
    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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    Yeshuasdaughter
    Yeshuasdaughter
    In Oregon I never pick them, because I was so socialized to leave them alone in California. I remember wearing VFW poppy pins all the time as a little girl.
    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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    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.
    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.
    FayetheAspie
    FayetheAspie
    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
    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.
    oregano
    Aside from 2 or 3 people, nobody would notice or care if I died. Therefore, suicide would be a waste of time and resources. I am already "dead" in most of the ways civilization considers people to be "alive", so why not enjoy it? Walk away from rejection and live outside the bubble.
    oregano
    Gonna cook a beef roast ("tri tip" as this cut is called in the US) for Christmas tomorrow. Turkey is generally only available around here for Thanksgiving.
    Xinyta
    Xinyta
    That sounds good. Ham is also a common Christmas tradition food. Not sure how common it is now-a-days, though.
    oregano
    oregano
    Few people eat bone-in ham here for any holiday anymore. There was a company called Honeybaked that sold cooked hams for the holidays, but they went out of business years ago. Bone-in ham is so difficult to cook that few bother. Certain ethnicities who eat pig on holidays tend to opt for pork roasts now.
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