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Personal and family website. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Annual Christmas Tree Outing. December 6, 2015. Today we went to the Furrow Farm to find and cut our Christmas tree. It was quite balmy, if wet and muddy. I’m trying to recall if we have ever had snow when getting our tree. If so, it is rare. We got the tree perhaps a week earlier than usual because Kristi is in town and we took advantage of her decoration skills and willingness. Such a nice tree. Thanks everyone! We were pa...
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Top O' the Mountain: January 2014
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Top O' the Mountain. Wednesday, January 1, 2014. I am going to rate books this year, unsure how much that helps others looking for a good book. Scale is 1-10. One Day in September. By Bill O'Reilly: Even the historian in me can get bogged down in big fat tomes that go on and on about historical events. O'Reilly's book doesn't do this. The chapters are short and clear and paint an easy picture of exactly what happened leading up to and on April 15, 1865. (7). Guns, Germs and Steel. By A Lansing: This has ...
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Top O' the Mountain: November 2014
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Top O' the Mountain. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Our Friendly Dog Named Sunny. Sadly, Sunny misbehaved in so many ways that he eventually had to go live on a "farm," if you're familiar with that euphemism. His greatest sin was shredding my Dad's dress shirts that Mom hung out on the line. Hard to resist for a sprightly puppy dog, those taunting shirts swinging in the breeze. That's my brother and me running around. Saturday, November 29, 2014. Sherlock Holmes or Inspector Clouseau? Night I noticed that Le...
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Top O' the Mountain: March 2014
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Top O' the Mountain. Sunday, March 30, 2014. NOT Your Grandma's Genealogy! We have gone from THIS:. The Family Tree feature on www.familysearch.org. I can view gravestones of family members who are buried thousands of miles away in cemeteries I'll never get to. All this without leaving home. It is posted on a free site: www.familysearch.org. Every month millions of newly digitized records are added. It's a marvelous miracle, thanks to the blessing of technological advances. 1 A few years ago a young man ...
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Top O' the Mountain: December 2013
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Top O' the Mountain. Thursday, December 26, 2013. Brigham Young's Great-Grandson Passes Away. The oldest person in our LDS Ward passed away a few days ago. His name was Thomas Young Emmett and he happened to be a great-grandson of both the prophet Brigham Young (1801-1877), and one of the steadfast, faithful missionaries of the Restoration, Erastus Fairbanks Snow (1818-1888). I was looking at Tom's family on FamilyTree (reached through www.familysearch.org. Tom will be missed. This is his obituary:.
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Top O' the Mountain: July 2013
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Top O' the Mountain. Saturday, July 20, 2013. You Can Bend But Never Break Me . . . Do you have a "theme song" for your life? Or do you ever break out in an appropriate song for whatever situation you are in? In an annoying vocal way? Words to music speak to me and tie into my memories almost as much as do scents or aromas, and visuals. If there had to be a theme song for my life, in 2013 it would be I Am Woman. Was in January, then back in March when I had surgery #two. And yes that was frightening....
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Top O' the Mountain: 3 Terrible Days in May
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Top O' the Mountain. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. 3 Terrible Days in May. At this time of year in NW Oregon one or more news websites always posts a tidbit about what is known around here as "The OES Disaster." It was an agonizing three days in May 1986, with a horrific outcome that devastated the families involved and cast a weighty pall over the community. And it changed forever the way I look at Mt. Hood. Locater beacons were designed and made available for checkout by summit-bound climbers. Outdoor-l...
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Top O' the Mountain: Mt. Hood, Magnificent and Deadly
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Top O' the Mountain. Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Mt Hood, Magnificent and Deadly. This map shows the glaciers on Hood. Most have receded dramatically the past few decades, but they still carry the danger of crevasses that have contributed to climbing accidents and deaths. The most dramatic accident was in 2002 when 3 separate climbing parties went sliding down the mountain and plunged at high speed into the bergshrund. 3 were killed. The rescue helicopter lost its lift and it too plunged down the moun...This ...
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Top O' the Mountain: August 2014
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Top O' the Mountain. Monday, August 18, 2014. Corp of Discovery route. 4:00 pm, May 14 1804. The most momentous undertaking in American exploration began at that very moment in St. Louis, Missouri. The Corps of Discovery departed westward along the Missouri River, bound for the Pacific Ocean, charged by President Jefferson to explore and map the formerly French territory, engage in botany, zoology, geography, and establish trade with the current inhabitants. On the night of September 7 1814. I could not ...
