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Days Creek 10/15/21
This week Mrs. Ednold and I headed south and took exit 99 off of the big road, where there’s a big casino. I can’t say I’m not a...
Ednold
Oct 16, 20215 min read
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Prairie City 10/8/21
It was Friday evening and we were following the John Day River east. The cramped canyons of Wheeler county had widened just a little bit...
Ednold
Oct 14, 20215 min read
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Mitchell 10/8/21
Even being on the main road, Highway 26, between Prineville and John Day, the town of Mitchell in southern Wheeler County could easily be...
Ednold
Oct 13, 20214 min read
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Wheeler 10/8/21
Wheeler High School is located in the county seat of Wheeler County, Fossil, and they’ve teamed up with Spray and Mitchell to form the...
Ednold
Oct 11, 20213 min read
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Spray 10/8/21
For various reasons, there are some schools in the state that just have a difficult time finding enough players, even for a game of 6-man...
Ednold
Oct 9, 20216 min read
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Heppner 10/7/21
It was the end of September, the first week of fall, and the open road was calling me. But I was busy at the time and didn’t get that...
Ednold
Oct 9, 20216 min read
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Mountainside 10/1/21
This Friday we took a trip to Washington County to watch the Mountainside Mavericks host the Beaverton Beavers, which put us in the...
Ednold
Oct 3, 20216 min read
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Powers 9/24/21
Highway 42 runs through the mountains from just south of Roseburg to just south of Coos Bay. About 20 winding miles south of where Hwy...
Ednold
Sep 25, 20218 min read
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Springfield 9/17/21
A few weeks ago we spent a nice evening at my father’s alma mater, South Salem, and it was fun to imagine him going to school in that...
Ednold
Sep 19, 20218 min read
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Sutherlin 9/10/21
This was week 2 of the new 2021 football season. The REAL 2021 football season, and this time we were headed south to watch a rivalry...
Ednold
Sep 11, 20218 min read
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South Salem 9/4/21
This was a weekend I’d been looking forward to for a long time. I was hoping to get to South Salem last year, but the virus got in the...
Ednold
Sep 5, 202110 min read
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A Different Wold 8/17/21
We recently traveled to central Oregon to see one of the oldest ranches in Crook County. There are more ranches in that part of the...
Ednold
Aug 17, 202112 min read
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More Notes From the Quarantine Area 8/4/21
As I have continued my quarantine this week I’ve come across some new information that just may change my plans for the coming years. As...
Ednold
Aug 4, 20214 min read
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Notes From the Quarantine Area 7/31/21
I don’t know if this is the correct forum to make this announcement, but I guess I need to let everyone know somehow and this seems like...
Ednold
Jul 31, 20216 min read
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The Mystery in Twin Oaks Cemetery 7/26/21
I can’t say I ever really knew Gus, but I met him a few times when he must have been 8 or 9 years old. Even at that age he was already a...
Ednold
Jul 26, 202110 min read
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Like It or Lump It! 6/28/21
I was originally going to call this story Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, but my name’s not Ripley and the whole Believe It Or Not thing is a...
Ednold
Jun 28, 20217 min read
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: 3 Memories from Washington Elementary 6/15/21
I recently took Mrs. Ednold by my old elementary school so she could check out the humble place where I began my education. It looked...
Ednold
Jun 15, 202111 min read
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To Hell in a Bucket 5/31/21
Summer is still a few weeks away, but Memorial Day is the unofficial start of the summer, and we had a little memorializing to do. So we...
Ednold
May 31, 202110 min read
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I Had the Coolest Grandparents 5/3/21
Football is over, at least for another 5 months or so. But I was tired of being cooped up in this house, so we packed our bags and hit...
Ednold
May 3, 202112 min read
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Siuslaw 4/9/21
For the final week of our weinerpus football season I had chosen to make the trip to Mapleton. Located in Lane County about 15 miles up...
Ednold
Apr 10, 20216 min read
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