Post 4th of July Thoughts

 From the "Ain't This A Great Country?" Dept.:
                             Watch "America's Most TOXIC Site Could Be Worse Than CHERNOBYL" and keep smiling. 😎

The United States of America, at 250 Years, hopes for more...

Watch "America: Birth Of A Nation" and this, pretty much, sums it up.

Fun morning with Rotary raising flags in Tillamook.

Catching up on The Night Before the 4th.

 

Woo-hoo! My new accordion arrived on June 5th! Now I'm (not so quietly) trying to learn a few tunes.

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On the weekend of June 18-20 Mary's great-nieces (and 2 friends) came to visit and camp out...

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Mary and I made bagels, ummm.

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Other great news: Healthcare for All Oregon (HCAO Tillamook Chapter) will have a booth at the Tillamook Fair, and it's been paid for! This is all possible because volunteers to work the booth have emerged from the healthcare industry in Tillamook! Yes, the Tillamook Vision Center has volunteered its staff to help operate the Healthcare for All Oregon fairbooth from Aug. 5th-8th. I hope several others in the area assist us as we bring the good news to the Tillamook County! 

I became new member of the Tillamook Rotary! It's a great place to meet enthusiastic people and actually do good things for the community at the same time. Thanks for the nice welcome everyone! Had fun manning the a ticket booth with them the previous night at the Tillamook Rodeo. 

What a great group of people. (And the event was held at the home of a local restaurant owner, and also a new Rotary member, Carlos - who cooked an amazing spread!) I'm liking this club that meets for lunch in Tillamook every Tuesday. And I'll never lose weight at this rate.

Well, very early tomorrow I'm going to find out how the magic has always happened every year of my life. I'll assisting Rotary with putting out the Tillamook flags. Have I commented on what a great group this is?

Healthcare for All Oregon (HCAO): Tillamook County Chapter Progress

 On Tuesday, June 2nd, I presented, to the Tillamook Rotary Club, an introduction to the work HCAO has been doing for 26 years, and most importantly, to the health plan being designed by the Universal Health Plan Governance Board for submission to State Legislators this September.

A Thursday Personal Blog

 

Today I would like to post some personally meaningful items that should stand up well on their own:

Topic: Science (and the only truth that really matters!)
Watch "NASA Just Touched the Sun — Here’s What They Found" on YouTube

Topic: History - Stuff we Really Ought to Learn about
Watch "The 20,000 Deaths Behind the Moon Landing (Operation Paperclip)" on YouTube

Topic: Nostalgia 
Colbert and "The Late Show" have been cancelled, but this was left behind - Watch "The Worst Of The Late Show - FULL EXTENDED EPISODE" on YouTube

Topic: Personal Growth
Watch "The Day You Realize Nobody Is Coming — Carl Jung" on YouTube

Check out my new page for all things interesting that you might like to know called 
"Did you know?..."

Back home in the Lovely Coastal Range of Oregon

Arriving, yesterday, we were met by tall grass and the property desperately waiting for some attention.

So, Sunday morning I got the mower and went to work. The area looks so beautiful now, and I thought I'd share some photos of the beautiful place we are so fortunate to inhabit...

The blueberries are many and we're looking forward to enjoying them. The grapes are just shooting up.