Beneath the Wraps

          Garden Valley Blvd runs northeast to the north. It loses the name “boulevard” and becomes just “road” somewhere before the Riverdale Grange and winds and turns along with Umpqua River.   I don’t know if where Umpqua starts and Roseburg ends.   The Lighthouse Center Café and Bakery is on Fort McKay at the end of Garden Valley.   According to Google, it takes only 20 minutes to get from one end of the street to the other.   It is more like 25 – 30 minutes.           In this post I mentioned having a winning ticket at the drawing that is held before the Wednesday movie starts.    We had driven out there at the end of August during Roland’s staycation.   We did not have the coupon, but we had driven so far out of the city and into the country and outskirts of civilization that we had to order something.       ...

My brother had posted 30 day gratitude list for the month of September.   He said he got it through our sister-in-law.   Each day he would provide details to go with the word or phrase.   This list will contain the first thing that had come to mind.   Perhaps I will use future dash posts to elaborate more in which case I will call it dash #gl . . . 1.        What is your favorite smell?        I have pretty much lost my sense of smell, but I would say cinnamon 2.        What is your favorite form of technology? Camera and evolution of the camera (see here )   3 .          What is your favorite color?                   Emerald Green 4 .          What is your favorite food?     ...

                We must have stopped for gas in Central Point on our way home from Salt Lake last Christmas.   I remember stopping in a used book store.   I found a keepsake journal called “The Grandparent Book”.   Amy Brouse Rosenthal had created a book with a giant upper case “G” on both front and back covers.    The purpose is for a grandparent to journalize his/her life and allow the grandchild to make comparisons of their life to the grand.   None of the pages were marked.   It was in excellent condition and inexpensive.   Thus we purchased it and I planned to fill it out.           The book is designed for one grandparent or the other.   And as all the grandkids have biological ties to Roland, I thought he should be the one to fill out the pages.   I decided we should give it to our only grandson w...

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          How many of our decisions affect others?   Choosing to have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich over tuna fish may not have any kind of a ripple effect as making a choice to drive or walk toward oncoming traffic.             Yesterday morning Balras Sing Dhillon had stopped his car just outside of Myrtle Creek.   Whether it was a conscience decision or not is unknown.   Police received a call about a vehicle stopped in the northbound left lane of the interstate approximately six in the morning and went to investigate. When they approached the vehicle, the driver took off.   The driver continued for another mile before crashing into the medium.   He must have climbed over the medium after he abandoned his car.   Was he running from the police?   Was he so disoriented that he didn’t know what he was doing?   I believe the latter as...

          When we are taught to read the letters will sometimes give us problems.  Vowels don’t always make the same sound.  The pronunciation of “a’ sounds the same in words like “apple”  and  “cat” but differs when saying words like: “clay” or “talk”.  What’s even more confusing is seeing the letter “ a ” and writing it in a different way.            I don’t remember questioning that as a child, but I do as an adult. With so many fonts, the appearance of letters might appear differently from the other.   For example this font which I am currently using versus what comes up automatically in my computer .   I like this font so much better.   The “a” looks like what I’ve been taught to write, not this foreign letter that has an extra hook on top.             Who changed the font?   Who decided that...