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Not in the STX. 😄 You should see how many clothes my dad put on this morning. Every one is walking around like Cartman on South Park.
When I got up this morning, the weather lady said it was 30 degrees. It has only warmed up to 42 here at 11AM. So I am still sitting here drinking coffee, trying to talk myself out of tagging and banding calves today! I had made a deal with a man last week to sell all of my calves to him when I wean in July, so I am asking myself why do I need to know which calf belongs to which momma? And I am thinking how nice it would be if they were calving in April. But, there is no rain and no wind, just bright sunshine, so I guess I will put on my Carhartt coveralls and get to it.
 
Katpau, I sometimes say I'm "directionally dyslexic".
When I'm giving directions, for some reason I've gotten really bad about saying left when I mean right or east when I mean west - just the opposite of whatever I should say. I hate to blame it on age yet (I'm 59), but it does seem to get worse as time goes by…

Something else that gets worse as time goes by is my tolerance for cold. It's not bad here now, currently 50 with a wind chill of 41, but if it gets much colder I'm piling on the clothes. My daughter ordered me a couple of pairs of insulated jeans, and they're definitely a favorite now.
 
When I got up this morning, the weather lady said it was 30 degrees. It has only warmed up to 42 here at 11AM. So I am still sitting here drinking coffee, trying to talk myself out of tagging and banding calves today! I had made a deal with a man last week to sell all of my calves to him when I wean in July, so I am asking myself why do I need to know which calf belongs to which momma? And I am thinking how nice it would be if they were calving in April. But, there is no rain and no wind, just bright sunshine, so I guess I will put on my Carhartt coveralls and get to it.
42 degrees at 11AM I might be looking to see if I have any sun block. I just looked at the 10 day forecast. The highest high forecast is 38. Right now it is 32 and calm with an occasional snow flake drifting by. Good working weather.
 
42 degrees at 11AM I might be looking to see if I have any sun block. I just looked at the 10 day forecast. The highest high forecast is 38. Right now it is 32 and calm with an occasional snow flake drifting by. Good working weather.
Not me! 65-90 is ideal for me. When it gets to 95 or more, that is when I will work outside mornings and evenings, and set inside in the AC during the day. Yesterday it went fairly well. By the time I got out there, the whole herd was lying out in the sun sleeping or chewing their cud. I could just drive right up the calves, and half of them never even got up. There was 8 that hadn't been worked yet, born since Monday night. 5 were Simmental-sired heifers and 3 were red Charolais-sired bulls, so only 3 to band and give a shot. This made 20 out of 50, and just 2 weeks in to December.
 
You are absolutely correct. I would blame spellcheck, but it was just another senior moment. My husband is always yelling at me "No...Your other Left!", whenever I turn the wrong way from the direction he just called out. I meant to type West but my hands typed East. Apparently I have now added East versus West to my lack of direction.
It's actually easy enough to confuse when you are there. While there, (I spent 3 and a half years in Corvallis) you are nestled in a valley that is between two mountain ranges. The mountain ranges are the Coast Range, which IS to the west of Roseburg and Corvallis (Roseburg being further south). The Cascades are east of Roseburg and Corvallis. The Rockies are much further east.
 
It's actually easy enough to confuse when you are there. While there, (I spent 3 and a half years in Corvallis) you are nestled in a valley that is between two mountain ranges. The mountain ranges are the Coast Range, which IS to the west of Roseburg and Corvallis (Roseburg being further south). The Cascades are east of Roseburg and Corvallis. The Rockies are much further east.
Not hard to tell the difference to someone who has lived there very long. First the coast range aren't mountains. More like big hills. A life time of living over by the coast and I never heard anyone refer to the coast range as mountains. The Cascades have volcanic peaks which are definitely mountains. leave the valley headed west and you take a road to the coast. Head to the east and you go over mountain passes. Those passes are higher than the hills to the west.
 
I have not ever heard of anyone actually call the Coast Range 'mountains', so you are 'correct' from that stand point. Technically, they are defined as mountains, hence the reference to them as a 'range'. I'll settle for calling them 'big hills', but there is at least one 'hill' there that is referred to as a 'peak' (as in like Pike's peak), which I think of as a mountain. That would be Mary's peak. Relatively speaking in relation to the Cascades and Rocky's, the Coast Range might amount to a "'HILL' of beans." 🙃

The idea of the "Willamette Valley" also implies it is defined by geological features on two sides.
 
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I have not ever heard of anyone actually call the Coast Range 'mountains', so you are 'correct' from that stand point. Technically, they are defined as mountains, hence the reference to them as a 'range'. I'll settle for calling them 'big hills', but there is at least one 'hill' there that is referred to as a 'peak' (as in like Pike's peak), which I think of as a mountain. That would be Mary's peak. Relatively speaking in relation to the Cascades and Rocky's, the Coast Range might amount to a "'HILL' of beans." 🙃

The idea of the "Willamette Valley" also implies it is defined by geological features on two sides.
The only feature I could find referred to as a peak is Marys Peak west of Corvallis. It is 4,097 feet tall. Not much in the way of a mountain. The unnamed hill behind my house is 4,700 feet in elevation.
 
The only feature I could find referred to as a peak is Marys Peak west of Corvallis. It is 4,097 feet tall. Not much in the way of a mountain. The unnamed hill behind my house is 4,700 feet in elevation.
That is the peak I was referring to. Its kind of a neat place as there is a stand of Noble Fir there that occurs naturally but is very isolated from any other natural population. Geologic features are often viewed in a relative sense. If you put the Coast Range in Kansas, you might as well have put the Himalayas there to the locals. Where they are. Relatively speaking. They are a 'mole hill' not a 'mountain'.
 
We are in a narrow river valley in the coast range of SW Oregon, about 20 miles to the Pacific as the crow flies. In the summer there are some days in the 90's, winter is the 40's and 50's. Sometimes there is a freeze or it snows a bit. Our water supply comes from a spring up on the steep forested 'hill' above. It may not be a mountain but it rises up like a wall. I keep records of annual rainfall. Last Nov. it rained 11 5/8" and Dec. 10 1/4" . Total rain for 2024 was 69 1/4" which is 5 3/4 feet. About 5 months out of the year I wear wool socks and knee high mud boots and those light weight stretchy fleece long johns made for fishers. I don't like the textured cotton kind because they feel damp. As far as when the cool season grass Starts growing that's when the temps remain in the 50's in March. People have to feed their cattle hay until the grass comes on. There are hardly any people here which is a plus. We left Texas because of the all Yankees and Californians flooding in.
 
That is the peak I was referring to. Its kind of a neat place as there is a stand of Noble Fir there that occurs naturally but is very isolated from any other natural population. Geologic features are often viewed in a relative sense. If you put the Coast Range in Kansas, you might as well have put the Himalayas there to the locals. Where they are. Relatively speaking. They are a 'mole hill' not a 'mountain'.
That's like these hills in Arkansas. The Ouachita and Ozark "mountains" are the tallest between the Appalachian and Rocky mountains, so they are called mountains by locals, and on most maps. As I get older, I'm also more inclined to call them mountains, because the incline seems steeper and further to the top.
 
There are hardly any people here which is a plus. We left Texas because of the all Yankees and Californians flooding in.
I left western Washington because of all the Californian and and Texans who have flooded that part of the world. Actually I moved twice within Washington and then had to move out of state. There was a 60 inch average rainfall where I last lived in WA. Just a short distance down the road they get 100 inches a year. Where I am now we get 10-12 inches a year. The county is bigger than the state of Delaware with a population of 16,000. I don't think those southern invaders will catch me here. Just south of here is a county bigger than any of the seven smallest states with a population of 7,000.
 
I've heard of the Eastern Kentucky mountains all my life. We say anyone living east of roughly I-75 is "from the mountains" and a little bit of a different breed.
In truth, yeah it is a lot of rougher ground, but outside of Black Mountain and perhaps the Pine Mountain ridge, they are just hills.
 
That's like these hills in Arkansas. The Ouachita and Ozark "mountains" are the tallest between the Appalachian and Rocky mountains, so they are called mountains by locals, and on most maps. As I get older, I'm also more inclined to call them mountains, because the incline seems steeper and further to the top.
I have been to Mt. Rich and it's Queen Wilhelmina State park. I think I was around 14 but I remember wondering "Who the hell is Queen Wilhelmina and whut the hell was she doing way out here?"
(she never visited Arkansas.)
 
I have been to Mt. Rich and it's Queen Wilhelmina State park. I think I was around 14 but I remember wondering "Who the hell is Queen Wilhelmina and whut the hell was she doing way out here?"
(she never visited Arkansas.)
When you were at the state park, you were 4 miles from my place, but there's no roads between here and there. It takes about an hour to drive around.
The Dutch government funded the railroad way back then (1890s) from Kansas City to Beaumont Texas. The railroad passes on the north side of the mountain, and they built a road to the top, and the lodge as a "retreat" for VIPs. They named the lodge in honor of the Queen.

By the 1920s it had been abandoned, and by the '50s it reverted to the state. It was rebuilt and designated a state park some time in the '60s. It burned down in 1973. I remember standing on granny and grandads back porch watching it burn one night. I was three years old and still remember "the big fire".

Next time you better stop and visit!
 
Dave, were these real Texans who flooding into western Washington? I can hardly think any real Texans would be objectionable. Western Washington, isn't that where Seattle is? Probably a bunch of urban computer techies that didn't like the heat moving there because of work. In Texas, all the big cities, are no longer like Texas but liberal hellholes. Just like Portland/Eugene/Salem run the state because their population outnumbers the people of the countryside. I find that we are welcome in rural Oregon. My truck license plates say Texas Farm Truck. I keep my money in Texas and I vote in Texas. We have to hold the Lone Star State, Oregon is a lost cause
 
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There are no Texans flooding out of Texas. 😄
I don't know. nearly every time I get on the freeway I see a car with Texas plates. Often two such cars. And I only get on the freeway a couple times a week. I am only on the freeway for 23 miles. That is a lot of vehicles with Texas plates. Maybe they aren't Texans driving them. But I sure see a lot of Texas cars. Cars with out of state plates it goes Idaho, Washington, Utah, and then Texas. Many more than California.
 
I don't know. nearly every time I get on the freeway I see a car with Texas plates. Often two such cars. And I only get on the freeway a couple times a week. I am only on the freeway for 23 miles. That is a lot of vehicles with Texas plates. Maybe they aren't Texans driving them. But I sure see a lot of Texas cars. Cars with out of state plates it goes Idaho, Washington, Utah, and then Texas. Many more than California.
Texans don't drive cars. 🤣
 

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