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LeafErikson

Lifer
Dec 7, 2021
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Oregon
I lived in Olympia for a few years and I’ll say that the nature and beauty of the PNW is next to impossible to beat. Astoria and the surrounding area were my favorite places to visit and if I won the big lotto I’d buy a condo there. The summers, as brief as they are, were some of the best I’ve ever experienced and if there a regret of leaving it’s all of these things.

However, with most of the population in the Puget Sound area, as well as down in Portland, being mostly from other places who moved because of whatever reason I found the region to be cold and artificial. The friends I did make were born in the area with families who lived there forever, or had moved out that way decades ago. I love living in and exploring cities but Seattle and Portland just seemed uninteresting and as left leaning in my politics I am, how those regions are governed is a clown show.

I do have visiting central and eastern Washington and Oregon on my bucket list.
Yeah I could never live in Portland, Seattle, or Olympia. Not enough sunshine and wacky politics. Astoria gets like 122-130 days of sunshine a year I think? We get around 200 down here in southern Oregon.
 
Dec 3, 2021
5,557
48,316
Pennsylvania & New York
Spending my Friday nursing our LiuLiu while she recovers from enucleation surgery last night.
Was able to sneak in a short bowl of Dark BirdsEye in the Kaywoodie Pup while tossing the horses some hay…View attachment 295946View attachment 295945

Poor pup! How is she doing?

The Dark Birdseye, Kaywoodie Pup, and enucleation surgery seems like a perversely poetic combo given the circumstances.
 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,863
655,796
About a quarter of a bowl left of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Watching the end of the Quiet Man, one of my favorite movies.
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