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Don’t have a cow, man!
It’s nice to have a claim to fame. For Springfield, Oregon, that would be Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and a motley crew of misfits. In a 2012 interview, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening admitted that Oregon’s 8th-largest city is “the real Springfield.” Sure enough, they lean hard into the whole Simpsons vibe, with murals…
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Playing tourist in my hometown.
It’s a weird feeling, returning to a place you spent a significant chunk of your life after being away for eight years. I feel almost like a tourist at times, excitedly pointing out places and things I once took for granted. The amount of glee I felt for a freakin’ road—”OMG, State Route 14!” I…
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Moon joy: it’s just what the doctor ordered.
You know that old carpenter’s proverb, Measure twice, cut once? It’s a reminder to plan a project carefully and thoroughly so you don’t have to go back and fix a mistake later. Too bad it’s not associated with planting trees. “Babe, I screwed up with the cherry trees,” Tara informed me yesterday. “Screwed up how?”…
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Romanticizing Tang and zero gravity.
I don’t know if you realized this, but four human beings are currently crammed inside a small metal capsule hurtling through space at over 2,500 mph, Earth a tiny blue dot growing smaller by the second, two-thirds of the way to the moon on this Easter morning. That is AMAZING. It gives me goosebumps. As…
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Four elevators on the fritz.
Yesterday, I was faced with a dilemma. Y’all know I love April Fools’ Day. But after pranking many of you once (and some of you multiple times; sorry, Claudette), I knew my chances of fooling anyone on the blog were slim to none. That didn’t stop me from googling natural gas line explosion images. I…
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Wait…is dynamite an option here?!
I would have loved to join our local No Kings protest on Saturday, but Tara and I were stuck in the car for 5+ hours. We drove out to an orchard in Gays Mills to pick up a bunch of fruit trees for our property. How far is Gays Mills? At one point, we saw…
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