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2012
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Today I was introduced to www.CaringBridge.org If you haven't heard of it, it is like Facebook for a family member to keep everyone posted on progress when someone is in the Hospital with a major situation. I blogged a few days ago about hurricane force winds here in Florence Oregon. Someone who ...
01/27/2012
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Phil's Saw Shop in Florence Oregon now offers knife sharpening! I have been taking my kitchen knives to Eugene Oregon an hour drive each way and then returning a few days later to pick them up. That translates into 260 miles round trip to complete the project. The other day I was in to get my cha...
01/23/2012
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Less is more, is a comment that we have all heard several times. The question is, have you really stopped to think about it and its meaning? Have you stopped to consider how it might be applied? We know when listing a home "less is more". Less price is potentially more offers. Less clutter is mo...
01/20/2012
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The other day I was called to a special board meeting over an issue. The vote and revolve were very apparent as to what it needed to be. Shortly into the meeting a couple of odd ball questions were raised and over an hour was wasted before a vote in favor of the obvious answer. This caused me to ...
01/19/2012
Sylvie Johnson from Flagstaff, Arizona has become a good friend in the last few weeks when I subscribed to her! I haven’t met her in person yet. I say yet , because I’m sure we will someday. I am a foodie and she has shown some great pictures of food at local restaurants there. The blog that stic...
01/18/2012
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We are having the worse winds that I have ever seen. The dumb thing is that they did not cancel school. I tried to take my daughter to school and encountered a trapped driver with a tree across the car and emergency folks on the scene. I tried another way and a tree was accross the road. I tried ...
01/18/2012
This was the headline in a story today printed in the paper from Eugene Oregon. What I didn't know was that the postal service delivered to homes twice a day until 1950. they delivered twice daily to businesses until the mid 1960's. Now we are hearing that delivery between Eugene and Springfield...
01/17/2012
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We have had a rare event for Florence Oregon. Its been some kind of snow mix that would have closed the schools. Its probably not quite a half inch. It snows so rarely that we don't have the equipment to clean the roads. In my 12 years here, I think schools have only had a snow day or two maybe 4...
01/16/2012
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On a Eugene Oregon TV station last night is had a news article that caught my attention. Eugene is about an hour from where I live in Florence Oregon on the coast. That makes the Eugene Tv stations as local as we can get here. The article mentioned how much less people are throwing in the landfil...
01/11/2012