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Taking in the View

           I’ve seen many landscapes in different view                    from my friends houses                    Medford pear orchard and during drives beyond city limits and touring the coast or McMinnville              I have missed some views such as the solar eclipse two years ago               but the skies were filled with smoke from the fires that had burned that year           I have missed seeing stars due to the heavy clouds and rain though my view of the sky has been spectacular this year Fog can be eerie – not much of a view when it envelops us     I’ve seen both nature and manmade...

Free Stuff

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          Roland ended up taking Jenna to the fair on Friday.   I thought it said to dress as a vegetable to get in free, but a friend pointed out that it said to dress a vegetable.   Thus Roland and Jenna decorated a couple of carrots before leaving the house.           After they arrived, they were told there was a seven dollar fee to park.   Roland asked where the free parking was located.   He was told if he parked at the high school, there was a "shuttle" that would bring him back to the fair.   So in order to save money, they went and parked at the high school and returned on a school bus that Roland assures me was designed for small people.   I smiled as I considered the greyhound I had taken from Portland to Salt Lake City in this post.             They returned home just as I had finished up ...