randal cranor

Howdy,


Post Today 11:51:53 AM     Subject: European Wall Lizard; friend or foe?
Yes, these little buggers:

That photo looks like what I have called, "alligator lizard" here in S. Oregon.

I also have California Fence Lizard/Blue Belly here, in great #'s more than the other one.
I think of lizards more as "friends".

Howdy,
Looks nice over there, Williams,Oregon.
I'm up on a hill, 11 miles, up Caves Hwy., Cave Junction.
I know people in Williams...Do I know you?
Drop a line?
Peace,rc

Howdy,

03.14, Today

A small group of us Celebrated Pie Day with...Homemade Pizza Pies, Pumpkin pie, Cherry pie, Apple pie, Blackberry pie,and some others....
A much needed "time with GOOD FRIENDS...
A Good Time was had BY ALL!

PEACE

Howdy
Here's what I experienced when my Dad moved family from Fresno Calif to St Louis/Kirkwood Missouri, in 1968.
I had just finished 10th grade. I didn't like the high school, dress code, could not wear colored tee shirts, or blue jeans. No sandals unless you wore socks!  There was no HS Auto Shop, like Calif.The culture seemed to be 10 years behind. Long hair and the PEACE sign got me expelled.

When I made some friends they were all from other areas, had just moved to Missouri also.

I continued to be expelled for being a "rebel rouser" and eventually just quit and ran away back to Calif.
My parents divorced. My sister told me, "Be glad you don't live here..."
But that was the 60's....I never finished HS.

My interest still remain the same, grew up with Summers in the Sierras, Hiking, Fly Fishing, outdoors...
And yes I was and still am a Rebel Rousing Hippie!

PEACE

Sam Shade wrote:You can find a surprisingly wide variety of imported kei trucks...  just got me one of these.

They are the Swiss army knives of small farm vehicles. You can get them registered in most states. You can drive them around the farm like a side by side.  You can flip it into 4 wheel drive and go off in the bush.  You can cart around small animals. You can quiver in fear as you floor it to go 40mph on a busy highway as 18 wheelers fly by going 70.

Sam,
Where did you purchase your KEI? Price?

This is the type of vehicle I would be most interested in, although may not be able to license to drive on all Oregon roads yet

howdy,
I have this kind, belonged to my Grandma, a hairdresser. Still use today, to cut my"whiskers" when they are to long,, I am 74.

S.R. DROESCHER GERMANY Hair Cutting Shears Scissors CLASSIC #89

My Grandma said this also about using her "hair scissors" for cutting anything else...
"...keeping other people from using your good sewing scissors for cutting paper and stuff." Craig Howard

Howdy,
I have just planted organic seeds that I get in bulk at natural food stores, like soy beans, seeds for edible sprouts(alfalfa,mung,...) and just broadcast them in my garden/yard.

Howdy,

Rick,
There is also a VW boulder at the bottom of the class III/IV Blossom Bar Rapid on the Rogue here in Oregon. The boulder garden was "blasted with dynamite" by Glen Wooldridge Sr. a local big river enthusiast from Grants Pass, Oregon, back in the 30's and 40's. Before this, it required a portage, carry boats and gear around/over Big Rock boulder filled canyon.

The John Day River is a desert sage enviorment, going thru central Oregon down into the Columbia River. I think it has a class II/2 designation, people with canoes do this river. It does have wilderness sections, multi-day roadless section. It goes thru old Oregon Homesteads. Some interesting sights and history, close to the fossil beds and Painted Desert. I saw the BIGGEST Raptor nest I have ever seen up on some cliffs on the John Day, so big I doubt it would fit in a pickup truck bed!  Also saw some big Carp fish that some Osprey were trying to "fish" outta the river, so big they couldn't hang on to em and kept dropping them. Was pretty funny.

The sights I've seen on river trips have always been better/different than any other type camping trip I have ever been on. The people you meet and the stories we tell!

Howdy,

Yeah dude, way to go....Weeeeeeeee....

Jerry McIntire wrote:Randal, we rowed the reservoir-- but the wind came up behind us, and we rigged a tarp for a sail. At least half of it we had a free ride!

Howdy,
Jerry,
In case you didn't know, the Owyhee is considered the Grand Canyon of Oregon.  I always wanted to do this river. It seems a little hard to get to, roads and all. And if you don't shuttle out where river meets reservoir, there is a 20+ mile oar/row across a lake to a take out point, usually against the wind.

The river was named after three Native Hawaiian men who were part of Donald McKenzie's 1819 fur-trapping expedition and never returned, disappearing or being killed in the area.

As we used to say on the river,  "Keep Paddling, I Hear BANJOS"