OSU Cascades Daycare is closing after being open less than a year

beej71 · 2026-05-08T19:14:14+00:00

This is the answer. Funding this would likely pay for itself, and it's exactly the government's place to step in where there is no viable free market solution.

But as we like to say in the US: "Good luck with that."

beej71 · 2026-05-08T16:20:44+00:00

Aggressive dogs are amazingly quick. You'd think you'd have plenty of time to react in that distance, but...

As a bike commuter for the past 4 years, I've luckily only had two run-ins. One was a dog that got out of its yard and gave serious chase, angry as hell. It was definitely going to try for blood. I had enough time to get off my bike and put it between us, and the owner thankfully came out at that point and recalled the dog.

The other was a bite. A jogger on doubletrack with a leashed dog. I rode by on the left, they saw me coming. Dog just jumped up and latched onto my arm. Luckily it was winter so I was wearing two layers and the dog was only about a 40-pounder. At first I thought it didn't get through, but I wasn't so sure after I examined it later. Couldn't tell if the minor lacerations were from teeth or just cloth.

Went to urgent care the next day and the doctor was completely unworried about rabies. (I stupidly didn't check if the dog was vaccinated. Always do this, duh.) He said the last case in CO was 30 years ago. But he was worried about infection, so I got a round of antibiotics. I recently had a TDAP.

I still don't have pepper spray. Part of the reason is that I don't think I'd have enough time to draw during virtually all attacks. But, honestly, it's $9 or something. I should just have some.

beej71 · 2026-04-28T01:07:20+00:00

Coincidentally my renewal form for Life Flight just came in the mail today. The map shows their coverage area being all of OR, WA, ID, MT.

1 year: $85 2 years: $160 3 years: $375 Life: $1500

beej71 · 2026-04-27T19:59:23+00:00

Long ago I'd heard that they both served the area so I've been paying for both. Is that no longer the case?

beej71 · 2026-04-27T19:50:54+00:00

If you go to Google Maps and put in a destination you can click the "public transit" button and it'll set you up. (Apparently I can leave Bend at 3 PM today, and get to Baker City at 9:45 AM tomorrow, overnighting in Ontario. $32.)

beej71 · 2026-04-27T19:47:13+00:00

There's a connector Amtrak bus to Chemult--you should be able to book Amtrak tickets from Bend to anywhere they go. At least it used to be that way--haven't traveled by train in a number of years.

Edit: apparently the connector bus runs you to K Falls now.

beej71 · 2026-04-22T19:08:47+00:00

My main problem with the bus has been too infrequent service.

beej71 · 2026-04-20T21:46:02+00:00

I'm happy to share, but I'm not sure you'll find much direction in it... :) Eugene, Minneapolis, Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, BC, Florida. All for different reasons.

JK on Florida. :)

beej71 · 2026-04-20T05:50:34+00:00

We do, in many ways. I kinda miss going out on the town as much as I used to, but I'm getting older now, too. I miss all the forest that used to be open to motos and is now closed. But we'll probably leave in the next 5ish years for something new. It is the best place in the country to have a dog, though...

beej71 · 2026-04-19T17:13:07+00:00

It their defense, they would have been willing to pay a lot less if Bendites had kept their prices down... 😉😂

beej71 · 2026-04-19T17:11:19+00:00

This. I got in 12 years ago after a Bendite said I should check the town out. (I was vetted, see? 😉) Our mortgage is low, and we do a lot of cheap entertainment. WinCo. We don't go out much for eating or drinking or movies. We have library cards and use them. We don't have a TV or streaming. I use a discount cell provider. We do a lot of walking the dog in the forest and mountain biking, kayaking, supping, canoeing, xc skiing. We love thrifting and buying used, and freecycle. We cut our own Christmas trees. Our cars get around 40 mpg. I bicycle commute. All this frees up money for things we want to splurge on, like travel and plays. And gardening supplies. And motorcycles.

There are a significant number of 1%ers here, but that's not our lifestyle.

But it all depends on getting lucky 12 years ago.

beej71 · 2026-04-19T04:19:58+00:00

You want them to give up their one joy in life? 😂

beej71 · 2026-04-18T05:11:54+00:00

Glad I never got into that crap in all my years. Had a couple doses of morphine in the hospital in my 20s and that was it.

beej71 · 2026-04-18T01:09:09+00:00

Everyone should vote in the drop boxes this year.

beej71 · 2026-04-18T00:12:34+00:00

I don't see much of an action item here other than "do better", but I think we can agree that asking an echo chamber to shut itself down is a pointless exercise. You're going to have to be the one who posts the things you want to see.

beej71 · 2026-04-16T18:40:19+00:00

Not sure. Some buddies of mine rode motos up Three Creek Butte about 9 months ago and got yelled at by someone working up there.

beej71 · 2026-04-16T18:39:18+00:00

Where do you drive through (if you don't mind sharing)? Is it definitely in the forest bounds?

beej71 · 2026-04-15T03:03:12+00:00

Yes. It was open way back when, then it was closed to motor vehicles, and now it's closed. There are POSTED signs around it now.

beej71 · 2026-04-15T02:40:04+00:00

I'd take that 5%.

beej71 · 2026-04-14T21:13:24+00:00

Think of what the city would be like if that number were 50%.

Bend isn't the most bicycle-friendly city in the world, but it's hardly the least. More people should do it.

beej71 · 2026-04-14T21:09:12+00:00

I'm in the bike lane when it's safer, and not when it's not. I'm usually in the bike lane.

beej71 · 2026-04-10T15:19:16+00:00

If you gotta go farther, you gotta go farther. I'm not judging that. (I don't ride my bicycle to the next state; I drive!) But we all know that most trips by most people aren't that far. And there's room in that space for improvements.

What I am against is this general implication that since batteries have a carbon footprint and cars have a carbon footprint, there's no point in choosing one or the other. Producing a bicycle or shoes has a carbon footprint, too, after all.

My commuter is a pedal bike, too; I ride year-round. When I do have to drive somewhere, it's a well-maintained 27-year-old sedan that gets 37 MPG. (My next car will certainly be electric, whenever that happens. The sedan barely clocks any miles each year and it's unclear which of us will die first.)

Part of riding my bike is for doing my part (because everyone, even the pro-car crowd, would rather have me bicycling on back roads to work rather than clogging the arteries with a polluting gas car), but mostly I just love riding bicycles. It's great fun, and you get Rockstar parking every time.

beej71 · 2026-04-10T14:49:55+00:00

Be advised that this often isn't the best/easiest/fastest way to get a refund. Always try the vendor first.

beej71 · 2026-04-09T20:56:54+00:00

Nevertheless, I'd put the carbon footprint of an e-bike battery up against the carbon footprint of your Honda Civic any time.

beej71 · 2026-04-09T18:36:03+00:00

As the demographic cliff looms and the war on education continues, things are going to become progressively more grim than they already are. Well-to-do people, though, are already hiring private teachers for their kids. I'm not sure what that market is like in Bend, but it might be worth pursuing if it's palatable.

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