WEDDING
CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON PHOTO: BRIDE AND GROOM After two years of being with Bob on weekends and school breaks, we decided to get married. We were married in The Pilot Butte Inn in Bend which was, at that time, closed.…
A RING ON HER FINGER
Bob wanted to make my wedding ring. See the ring and read about its symbolism.
A SAILING CANOE IN THE JOHNS LANDING MODEL
One of the first things Bob purchased after we got married was a canoe.
FOUR CAR FIASCO
After I got out of school, married Bob and moved to Portland, I sold that car to Gene Biggs’ son for $1.00. With that money, plus a little extra (four digets extra), I got an almost new Volkswagen.
HOUSE NUMBER 3
CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON PHOTOS: HOUSE AND YARD When I met Bob, he was renting the top half of an up/down duplex on S W Condor Avenue in Portland which curved up a steep, woodsy ravine between Barbur and Terwilliger Boulevards.…
HUMANS UP TO NO GOOD
STOP! STOP OR I'LL SHOOT!!!
HUMANS UP TO NO GOOD TWO
CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON Another incident of indecencies to our automobiles involved Bob’s car, a Volkswagen station wagon. The brakes were bad and Bob had put off getting them fixed. One day, I was driving his car and was coming home…
NEIL GOLDSCHMIDT
When he saw the model, he ran down the steps and leaped over the balustrade with one hand on the railing, like a cowboy leaping over a hitching rail.
JARI AND ERIC
Both of my children ended up being my very best friends in all the world.
BOO AND ARCHIPELAGO
When Jari was living with Bob and me, her childhood friend, Mary Nuchols, came to visit. Mary had an over-sized German Shepard dog named Boo, who had been her faithful companion since childhood.
TEEN AGED RACCOONS
One evening I heard a noise on the porch. Looking out I saw five small, almost baby sized raccoons scarfing down the cat food. When I opened the door they all fled except one. He was the testosterone kid.
MARAUDER RACCOONS
Our Japanese neighbors, Setsu and Hiroshi, kept exotic Japanese animals.
OTHER HOUSE GUESTS
Living in a wilderness ravine, we were blessed with a plethora of wildlife. A favorite event that happened every spring was the hatching of baby screech owls.
SETSU AND HIROSHI
Our Japanese neighbors were Setsu and Hiroshi. Setsu was startlingly beautiful.
THE MOLES DON’T COME IN MY YARD
Adele had recently read an article stating that certain successful people claimed they owed their success to having the spelling of their names changed by numerologists so that the numbers that went with the letters were lucky for them. An…
OWYHEE LAKE AND THE PHANTOM COWBOY
CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON In late May, 1972, Bob and I took a canoe trip on the Owyhee Reservoir in southeastern Oregon. I had seen pictures of the Owyhee River and the Grand Canyon-like country surrounding it and I was excited…
THE SQUEAKY HINGE BIRD
When Bob and I were hiking at high elevations, we would sometimes hear a long, high wailing sound.
BICYCLING AT 40 (FROM A LETTER)
I just celebrated my 40th birthday and I am now in feverish anticipation waiting for life to begin.
BICYCLING AT FORTY #2
At one point, laboriously catching up with him as he sat waiting, I said, “I can’t even pedal this bike down hill.” He looked at my red, sweating face and got serious.
THE BIG COW
We were tootling along through North Dakota when up ahead in the distance we saw a black and white Holstein cow standing on the top of a hill. I got a dizzy feeling. It must be an optical illusion: either…
DOG DOUGHNUTS
While we were there the snow melted completely. Around every tree on every block was a doughnut of dog poop.
MINNEAPOLIS LAKES AND PARKS
Minneapolis is one of the world’s great cities. Its early designers had a feeling for the prairie and for open green spaces. The city site is blessed with the Mississippi River on its east. A north-south row of lakes on the…
MINNEAPOLIS ARCHITECTURE
Having access to great gobs of prairie wheat and other produce, Minneapolis started right out cashing in. It ended up having the world’s largest flour mills and food preservation plants—think Pillsbury—think General Foods. From the beginning, that wealth purchased some…
VAN EVRA BAILEY HOUSE (Written April 20, 2016)
CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON PHOTO: COLWELL'S HOUSE This photo is a flyer from Restore Oregon, highlighting the Colwell House in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The text reads: "STILT HOUSES - With buildable lots becoming more scarce and costly, Bailey began to develop a…
THE FLAT MOUSE AND THE FLAT CAT (BOB STORY #1)
He obediently sat down on the equally grimy chair, and as he sipped his coffee the view straight ahead was of a wall on which was nailed a flat mouse and a flat cat. Both had been long dead and…
THE SHRINE OF THE LAST SALMON (BOB STORY #2)
At some point in time Bob started doing sculptures. They were all very unusual. My favorite one was entitled THE SHRINE OF THE LAST SALMON. It has approximately 750 dimes for salmon scales.
CALICO CATS
CATEGORY: MRS. ANDERSON PHOTO: BOB WITH ARCHIPELAGO A card that Bob made. The large heart says, "CALICO CATS ARE BROWN BLACK AND WHITE, CALICO CATS ARE RATHER SMALL, CALICO CATS ARE MERRY AND BRIGHT, AND PLEASANT TO HEAR WHEN THEY…