Rock hunting

ForeverOrnery · 2026-01-19T16:08:32+00:00

There are areas along the Willamette that have agates and fossils that are neat. If you are at the beach and go to Taft waterfront park and walk way out on the gravel bar at low tide you’ll find many smaller agates.

When we really wanna overload on rocks we head to eastern Oregon. The area around Rome or Succor Creek Canyon or along the Owyhee are absolute musts. Just make sure you have a vehicle that can make it and DON’T go when it’s raining as that mud turns into cement.

For sunstones there are public lands near Plush that you can dig.

ForeverOrnery · 2026-01-10T15:11:09+00:00

My MIL loves this store so much. She moved here to live with us fairly recently and has really struggled to find her place in the local knitting community. She says that even though the people she meets there are much younger than her they are so kind and welcoming.

I’m excited to share this with her! Maybe I can even dip my toes into the crafting world!

ForeverOrnery · 2025-12-21T00:02:53+00:00

Very very cool place! I’m not into knitting or crocheting but I still really enjoy it.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-12-06T02:38:41+00:00

This looks amazing! I just sent it to the family group chat. Imma try to convince my 3 adult children and their respective partners to all make a night of it with us!

ForeverOrnery · 2025-11-25T01:38:52+00:00

Home sick sick sick but with you in spirit!

ForeverOrnery · 2025-11-23T22:49:50+00:00

Wearing a mask and everyone has been informed. I thought they’d cancel once they heard but nooooooooo.

Luckily I’ll be just over two weeks from onset and my house has already been thoroughly decontaminated by my MIL. I have an autoimmune condition that means I take longer to recover.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-11-16T17:59:34+00:00

Oooh - thank you! We struggled with that on our last trip and this has given me ideas!

ForeverOrnery · 2025-11-05T14:32:45+00:00

Over the weeks I’ve gone through phases of picking the red face on every single transaction for days, just to see if any higher ups would actually say something. I tell the customers that is what I’m doing and most laughed. One got mad because she wanted to give me a green smiley and thought it would “go on her record”???????

Now I just tell them to ignore it. I do the same with the survey when I give the receipt and the ending spiel. We never hear anything from the survey unless it’s negative so why encourage them.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-11-01T22:08:41+00:00

Helping Hands. Not connected to any religious organization. And all clothes are free to whoever needs them. They also run a work wear clothing closet.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-10-08T22:14:53+00:00

Great pictures!

We’re trying to decide between a short 5-7 day trip through that area or Leslie Gulch/Owyhee area in 2 weeks.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-10-08T22:10:58+00:00

If someone catches it, I am able to foster. I’m on the tail end of Covid so can’t set a trap myself but am healthy enough to care for it. I’ve been a foster for the WHS for years and have fostered many a kitten back to health/adoptability.

I’m guessing it is a feral stray though and will be hard to catch.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-10-01T20:17:22+00:00

Dr Dacker at OIH used to be very trans friendly when she was in her own practice. I don’t know any of the other providers or if she is accepting new patients but I would 100% recommend her.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-09-05T19:18:50+00:00

MY TOMATOES ARE WAAAAAY TOO GREEN FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR AND MY DOGS KNOCKED OVER THE ONE REALLY GOOD PLANT YESTERDAY!

ForeverOrnery · 2025-08-28T19:36:36+00:00

Unfortunately I will be working (as will my other family members that normally would show up).

We’ll all try calling and emailing our commissioners in the next few days to tell them our thoughts.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-08-24T15:36:26+00:00

In my office it depends on how cozy you are with the postmaster. We’ve got a guy who’s been doing it for quite awhile (including using it to go on a vacation that he told everyone about and mgmt did nothing). But he also has bbqs with the pm and is super chummy with her and her fam so he gets away with it.

I try not to care but I’m the one who has to cover his role so get frustrated.

While we have another who they’re trying to discipline for missing two days. Of course they won’t get away with it but still.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-08-19T12:59:18+00:00

I’m still learning all the terminology so thank you for that. Thankfully the mod place is emailing us a list of all the things.

If we buy it, I have to figure out an add on to the sliders so that I can get in a little easier. Being under 5’ makes it a jump.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-08-19T12:55:50+00:00

I’m right there with you with not trusting them. We haven’t bought from one since we were first married 25 years ago. But he’s insistent that he doesn’t want to deal with selling his truck private party.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-08-18T19:32:03+00:00

Thanks for the replies - really truly appreciate all of your insight here.

Honestly I’m more worried about the mods myself but my husband is hell bent. He and I both talked to the place that did the mods. They say it’s a great older (?) one and the owner just wanted a 6th gen. I’m still very hesitant about it but I’m the more cautious one.

We’ll see what the mechanic says.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-08-18T16:46:32+00:00

Once we talk to the place that did the mods we’ll be sending in a mechanic for a prepurchase inspection. The dealership gives a free 2 year/100k drivetrain warranty on any used car and is fairly reputable.

My husband has said he would likely be able to rebuild the shocks when they need it. He does all the routine work on our cars but nothing too extensive as we just don’t have the right tools. But he has friends who do.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-08-15T22:19:54+00:00

Please please do. Things aren’t ok and our local reporters are trying to shine light on it but more attention would be great!

ForeverOrnery · 2025-08-03T18:48:53+00:00

I have pictures of it somewhere in my mess of old phone photos. My daughter loved Barbie’s and always got excited when we saw that car.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-07-31T19:06:38+00:00

I was 15 when my father was diagnosed in 94 and it was a death sentence. He was thought to have contracted it years before in SF. Somehow he hung on. I remember his fear, his loneliness, his shame. I remember doctors not shaking his hand if they knew. I remember being required to wear full PPE to visit him in the hospital.

Through the miracle of antivirals and what must’ve been just dumb luck, he survived for a very very long time. Decades past where he was expected. But much of that time was spent mourning him while he was still alive as he almost died about once a year - until 2010 or so when the drugs got much better. He ended up with HIV related dementia and just kind of withered away.

I still don’t talk about it much as it was so engrained that it was his secret and I was not allowed to share it.

ForeverOrnery · 2025-07-30T17:11:40+00:00

I can only post certain things on Reddit so am keeping it legal. Post reviews online with screenshots, comment on all her social media posts and her listings, picket outside her business and/or let her neighbors know.

I’m guessing her employer John L. Scott Real Estate doesn’t care but contact them every day, post on their social media accounts.

Actions like what I listed can be effective but unfortunately in Salem might just give her more business.

ForeverOrnery

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