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CENTRAL OREGON December 31, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

LEAVING HOWARD

It is always difficult, when a marriage breaks up to know what to say about it, or even what to say to ones self--to know what actually happened.

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CENTRAL OREGON December 30, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

THE WINNING WAYS OF WATER

Sometimes when I look back at how foolhardy I used to be, I wonder how any of us survived.

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CENTRAL OREGON December 29, 2017April 20, 2019 by Jean Anderson

ODE TO AN 84 DOLLAR HEADACHE

Here is your fee you old M. D. I think it highway robbery. I wish you measles and the mumps, The kind with upper and lower lumps.

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CENTRAL OREGON December 29, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

THE TUMALO HOUSE

CAREGORY: CENTRAL OREGONPHOTOS: ORIGINAL AND PLANNED FLOOR PLANS, 1963 After living with Mary and Oliver for about six weeks, Howard told me he would help me buy a house.  I found a house and barn on 40 acres seven miles…

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CENTRAL OREGON December 28, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

MISTER SINGER

One of my first dress making customers was a man. His name was Mr. Singer.

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CENTRAL OREGON December 27, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

SKUNKS IN THE HOUSE

After I got the kitchen addition enclosed, I woke up one night to hear the sound of clicking claws on the floor.

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CENTRAL OREGON December 26, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

A SKUNK AT THE DOOR

Our front door had a little window in the top of it turned at a 45* angle. I heard a slight noise and looked up at the door. There, with his face pressed against the glass was Phyllis's latest boyfriend.…

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CENTRAL OREGON December 25, 2017July 27, 2019 by Jean Anderson

A SKUNK IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

One fall afternoon as I was working at my sewing, I glanced out the window and saw a teen age boy coming down my driveway.  I continued sewing, expecting him to knock at the door, but he didn’t.  When I…

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CENTRAL OREGON December 24, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

BOTTLE CAPS

BOTTLE CAPS Eric’s favorite toys when we were living in Tumalo were bottle caps. He would get them out of the soft drink machines and bring them home in paper bags. He had hundreds of them.

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CENTRAL OREGON December 22, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

ZACH: 1963

CATEGORY: CENTRAL OREGONPHOTO: 1) ZACH AND ME2) ZACH'S FIRST VALENTINE TO ME 1963 was my year of being insane.  It was my year of being totally, completely, madly in love.  I had never been in love before.  Nor, in that…

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CENTRAL OREGON December 21, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

ZACH: SWIMMING ONEONTA GORGE

In the summer of 1963, Mike and it took some trips to out of the way places in Oregon. With Eric and Jari we went camping in the Maurray Mountains and to French Glenn. By ourselves we went to the…

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CENTRAL OREGON December 20, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

ZACH: SEATTLE

CATEGORY: CENTRAL OREGON PHOTO: LETTER FROM ZACH'S FRIEND Zach and I were tootling along in his little Volkswagen on our way to Seattle.  He was driving, but he wanted to study the map to figure out how best to enter…

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CENTRAL OREGON December 19, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

ZACH: WHO ARE YOU?

When Mike got engaged to his bride to be, he threw a big party at his studio.

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CENTRAL OREGON December 18, 2017June 20, 2021 by Jean Anderson

THE BURMA ROAD

Today when we drive along Highway 97 between Redmond and Terrebonne, we look over toward Gray Butt to the east and see what is now called "The Burma Road."

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CENTRAL OREGON December 17, 2017July 27, 2019 by Jean Anderson

GEORGE WASHINGTON

CATEGORY: CENTRAL OREGON Jari sometimes surprised me with her sophisticated sense of humor.  An example I am remembering occurred at a small party we gave at our Tumalo house when Jari was ten years old. A year before that, she…

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CENTRAL OREGON December 16, 2017July 27, 2019 by Jean Anderson

REID THE RIOT ACT

CATEGORY: CENTRAL OREGON Eric and Jari went to school at Tumalo Grade school.  The principal there was named Mr. Reid.  I had heard reports of him that were most unpleasant, not just from my own children but from the other…

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CENTRAL OREGON December 15, 2017July 27, 2019 by Jean Anderson

PIXIE DRIVERS

CATEGORY: CENTRAL OREGON Although it was, of course, illegal, I taught Eric and Jari to drive the car when they were 12 and 10 respectively, just as we had learned to drive the team and wagon and later the tractor…

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CENTRAL OREGON December 14, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

CLIMBING THE SOUTH SISTER

Someone had given me directions on how to get to the west side of the South Sister on a dirt road that went between it and Brokentop, and said that then it was an easy hike to the top.

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CENTRAL OREGON December 13, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

OVER THE TOP

At the beginning of my third year living in Tumalo, one of my dressmaking clients, for whom I also did fashion designing, offered to finance me in my own shop.

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CENTRAL OREGON December 12, 2017July 27, 2019 by Jean Anderson

NO TELEVISION (NOTV): MODERN UTOPIA

An assignment to write an essay on television. Mine was NOTV (No Television).

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CENTRAL OREGON December 11, 2017June 24, 2021 by Jean Anderson

DANCING IN THE RUINS

I was told about the ruins of an old house in a canyon northwest of Milikin east of Bend.

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Jean Anderson

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