Artik Creamery in southern Oregon produces dreamy ice cream. Local-sourced ingredients just push this special taste treat over the edge! According to the folks at Artik, this is how they lovingly prepare their top-rate yummy, creamy ice cream... Making the best ice cream takes the best ingredients"We start with the highes
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July 20th, 2010
New World Order America.And that remarkable border war.
What another sucky day in paradise for Ali on last night’s installment of The Bachelorette. Well, her first two Tahitian dates with Roberto and Chris had such a sweet quality about them. Each of those two men seem like genuine choices. Then came time for the ever angst and insecure Frank to have his time. [...]
Stores push summertime 'Christmas' sales"Retailers are pumping still more energy this year into trying to get shoppers to loosen their purse strings early for Christmas with sparkly ornaments, holiday music and special prices. In July.
Oh, and buy a Toyota too while you're at it.
July 19th, 2010
Went raspberry picking Saturday evening at Childer’s Raspberry Farm in Albany. The raspberries are ginormous! Today I made freezer jam with them. Is it wrong to just have toast with jam for dinner? Here’s my yarny progress for the last few days: DAY 15 DAY 16 DAY 17
I just found out a family member stole my father's estate and there's nothing I can do about it.My planned future just evaporated, we'll be homeless in several months so we have to begin planning how to dispose of our posessions and where we'll live from then on.But considering the first major hurricane will cre
Turkey's tourist resorts threatened with terrorist campaign "The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group, has said it plans a wave of violence following
Reptilian Capitalist Darwinism.Government Stopping Charities From Feeding The Homeless"The National Coalition for the Homeless has issued a report detailing laws and ordinances in a couple of d
Click post title to go to WA Post story on Top Secret America. I cannot believe it. Over 3/4 of a million Americans work in Top Secret America, with security clearances. Can you believe this?We need America back from the boogy woogy shadow people.
I am about to go off on another short vacation, but this one will be without the internets (and phone, and cell phone and television and newspaper) so no posting until Friday after this post today. And no time for a proper blog post today except for a quick comment on a
July 18th, 2010
Fun with the fisheye lens mostly, but it was great to be in Portland again. Also, I haven’t blogged in a long time… until now.
I'm grumpy lately. Just overwhelmed, is all. Then, the more animal abuse, neglect and abandonment I see, the more distraught I get.I can only do what I can do. I need to relax and realize this once again.I've had this tooth thing going on. First, an age old filling fell out. I finally got it replaced, but, now I can't
Real unemployment is around 25%"Raghavan Mayur, president at TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, follows unemployment data closely. So, when his survey for May revealed that 28% of the 1,000-odd households s
Sappy alternative ending to Titanic that gratefully wasn't used.
The new pain med mandate by the Oregon Vet Board has become a royal pain in the butt for me in trying to get cats fixed.The Salem clinic is nice, but I can't get very many cats done there very often at all. So, unless I can talk those feeding ferals or who own cats into coughing up the added $10, I can't take their cats in
The three kittens from N. Albany are terribly thin and have diarrhea, probably giardia, but I don't know for sure. Fortunately, I do have some old metro and started them on it, because it's not going to hurt them. They barely eat. I shaved little Nemo partially because he has repeatedly coughed up hair and that may be mo
If you are a network marketer, then you will probably want to create a successful MLM business. Many networkers look at the success stories of MLM and want to be able to emulate them. The good news is that these successes are just regular people who learned skills that you can learn to.The simple truth [...]
Charles Shaw Pinot Grigio is from California. This wine is cellared & bottled by Charles Shaw
Charles Shaw Pinot Grigio is from California. This wine is cellared & bottled by Charles Shaw
While jobs flounder and SS cost of living adjustments have been denied supposedly because no costs have risen, Pacific Power is raising its rates by 10%, allegedly to recover costs of building a Wyoming wind farm. I thought that was what the voluntary higher rates were for, that you can pay if you have like money to burn a
If you really think about it, Network Marketing prospecting is simply the tactics and strategies of finding people to talk to. Plain and simple. Talking to people is what you get paid for, and what you do for a living. Talking to people is imperative, so you must find folks to share your story with.The [...]
Harris Bridge Vineyard is located in Benton County Oregon approximately 12 miles from Corvallis off
Harris Bridge Vineyard is located in Benton County Oregon approximately 12 miles from Corvallis off
Salt Creek Cherries is located on Highway 22 in Dallas, Oregon. They do not allow u-pick due to insu
Former Corvallis City Councilor Rob Gandara has announced he will run for Mayor of Corvallis, Ore
Salt Creek Cherries is located on Highway 22 in Dallas, Oregon. They do not allow u-pick due to insu
Former Corvallis City Councilor Rob Gandara has announced he will run for Mayor of Corvallis, Ore
Chateau Bianca Winery is located at 17485 Highway 22 in Dallas, Oregon approximately 11 miles wes
Chateau Bianca Winery is located at 17485 Highway 22 in Dallas, Oregon approximately 11 miles wes
DC’s spy establishment in panic mode over Washington Post expose"Washington's intelligence establishment appears to be in panic mode over an upcoming Washington Post series about runaway growth in defense and intelligence spe
July 17th, 2010
Where have I been the last two days? In the kitchen! Every year, The Man's family gets together in Hubbard for the Hop Festival and a huuuuuge family picnic (sixty people?) at his aunt and uncle's house there. We went up today to watch the parade in the morning and then have burgers and hot dogs for lunch. In the mid-a
KBR Wins $35M Pentagon Contract Despite Criminal Probe Into Electrocution Deaths"WASHINGTON — Defense contractor KBR Inc. has been awarded a $35 million Pentagon contract involving major electrical work, even as it i
Ok, I finally came up with names for the orange and white boys from Albany: Wild Willy and Chaos.
Today I performed the necessary removal of several broccoli plants that had provided a wonderful
Today I performed the necessary removal of several broccoli plants that had provided a wonderful
K.A.T.A. in Sweet Home is taking in the sick manx kitten from the Lebanon three kittens, allegedly abandoned, thrown against someone's fence.Spay INc. agreed to take the two healthy kittens.The woman called to let me know KATA was picking up the sick kitten. This is after she first was turned down by Safehaven, then me.
Here are the top 10 reasons why mlm lead companies fail:1) The number one reason for theses companies being so low on the totem pole is poor lead quality. The whole purpose of selling mlm leads to people is that you provide them with the freshest, most responsive, and most profitable mlm leads out there. [...]
Starry, one of the three kittens from N. Albany.Peko, from N. Albany.Below are photos of the seven females fixed yesterday:One of three adult tame house cats, from kittens from the feral torti, fixed yesterday.Another of the feral torti's taken in kittens, now an adult house cat, fixed yesterday.And the last tame house girl
July 16th, 2010
OMG, how many days does this thing go on? Through July 25th!? ::thud:: I’m okay! DAY 12 DAY 13 DAY 14
I recently decided I would try out Clear Internet.I liked the idea of being able to buy it and get it all set up, and then move it from my apartment to my new house.For this particular area it had decent reviews (although in some areas it has very poor reviews).I purchased a modem, paid a sign up cha
The Trinity nuclear test, July 16, 1945Atomic CafeThe Trinity test site at White Sands near Alamogordo is only open two days a year, on the first Saturday in April and October. And for some reason they don't like sunscreen.
Today was a good day in the fight against feline overpopulation and its resultant suffering. Seven females were fixed. Five were from Albany. Two were from rural Tangent area.The Tangent females were sisters. One was pregnant and the other has five five-week-old kittens. Three of the Albany cats are former kittens of t
Love meet me in the green glen Beside the tall Elm treeWhere the Sweet briar smells so sweet agen There come wi meMeet me at the sunset Down in the green glenWhere we've often met By hawthorn tree and foxes denMeet me by the sheep pen Where briers smell
Can a squirrel get heat stroke?