COFFEE BREAK
B10 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Wife takes over whole home with remote work
into the work break room and
telling people to be quiet because
she’s in a meeting.
I know her job is stressful and
she gets anxious, so now I’m torn.
Am I unrealistic to expect her
not to make our entire house her
offi ce? — Walking On Eggshells
Dear Walking: People create
home offi ces for a reason. It’s
a dedicated, organized place to
work. Your wife should not be
“roaming the house” with her
laptop and insisting you maintain
complete silence. Ideally, some
physical boundaries should be set
that equitably divide the house
between her “offi ce” and the “rest
of the house.”
Another suggestion might be
for you to fi nd some activity away
from your home a couple of morn-
ings or afternoons a week — a
Dear Abby: My wife works
from home, and we are having
a disagreement about the home
workspace. She says I interrupt
her too much and shouldn’t talk
to her so often. While I agree
with that, I don’t agree with her
roaming around the house with her
laptop while she’s in meetings. If I
turn on the TV, listen to music or
talk on the phone, she gets upset.
I have been digging my heels
in saying I’m entitled to enjoy my
own home and she should either
stay in her home offi ce or go to
a coff ee shop. To me, what she’s
doing is like taking your laptop
part-time job, a sport or volun-
teering — while she’s busy in
meetings. This might provide you
with more social contact. The two
of you should have a (calm) dis-
cussion and see what works for
you.
Dear Abby: I got engaged a
while back. In the midst of wed-
ding planning, the question of who
will walk me down the aisle has
come up. My fi ance despises my
father (he’s witnessed the damage
my dad has done to me), but I for-
gave Dad and feel neutral about
his presence. My mom has voiced
— begged, actually — that I allow
her and Dad to give me away since
she didn’t have either parent there
for her wedding.
I don’t have an opinion on the
subject. My mom for sentimental
reasons does. But my future hus-
band can’t bear the sight of my
dad. This is causing me so much
anxiety, I have thought about
calling the whole thing off on
more than one occasion.
If I oblige my mom, my fi ance
will be unhappy (to say the least),
and if I oblige my fi ance, I’ll break
Mom’s heart. I can fi nd no middle
ground here and feel as if I lose on
both sides. Any advice on how to
proceed? — Torn Bride-To-Be
Dear Torn: This is your and
your fi ance’s wedding. It should
not be infl uenced by your mother’s
history. I do have a suggestion:
Rather than make yourself sick
with anxiety, walk YOURSELF
down the aisle. Many modern
brides do it these days. Your
mother could give a reading or sit
with your father in the front row
and cheer you on. Who escorts
you down the aisle should not be
decided by her.
P.S. Have you thought about
how your fi ance’s antipathy for
your father may aff ect your mar-
riage? What’s happening now
isn’t conducive to a happy mar-
riage. Before you step foot on that
trip down the aisle, it needs to be
resolved. Family counseling might
help the four of you, because once
you tie the knot, your fi ance will
be part of the family.
Dear Abby: Should aging par-
ents have to pay their children to
take them to appointments or else-
where? — Wondering Parent
Dear Wondering Parent: I’m
guessing you and your spouse did
plenty of “chauff euring” before
your children had driver’s licenses.
The “child” who suggested it
should be ashamed of themself.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
American Girl Dolls, Risk, sand make it to Toy Hall of Fame
“I’m so proud of the American
Girl family—past and present—
who have been faithful stew-
ards of this brand for more than
three decades, helping to capture
the hearts of an entire generation
of girls,” she said in an emailed
statement.
“Rowland’s formula for com-
bining doll play with history les-
sons worked, in her words, like
‘chocolate cake with vitamins,’”
curator Michelle Parnett-Dwyer
said. “In an era when some edu-
cation experts claimed that school
curriculums paid little attention
to history, this toy may well have
fi lled a void.”
Risk, based on the French
game Le Conquete du Monde,
was fi rst published in the United
States in 1959 and continues to
infl uence other board games, hall
offi cials said. It challenges players
to control armies and conquer the
world on a game board that is a
map of continents.
“Risk became one of the most
popular board games of all time,
inspiring a new corps of pas-
sionate gamers, and infl uencing
other games which began the war-
The Associated Press
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Amer-
ican Girl dolls and the strategy
board game Risk were inducted
into the National Toy Hall of
Fame on Thursday, Nov. 4, in
recognition of their infl uence on
the toy industry. Sand, which the
group called perhaps the most
universal and oldest toy in the
world, was also inducted.
All three were honored during
a ceremony at the hall after win-
ning over a panel of experts who
voted for them from a group of 12
fi nalists.
Also in the running this year
were four other competitive
games: Battleship, The Settlers of
Catan, Mahjong and billiards, as
well as Cabbage Patch Kids, Mas-
ters of the Universe, Fisher-Price
Corn Popper, the toy fi re engine
and the piñata.
Anyone can nominate a toy
but to be considered, they must
have withstood tests of time and
memory, changed play or toy
design and fostered learning, cre-
ativity or discovery.
American Girl dolls, the 1986
Victoria Gray/Strong National Museum of Play
This photo, provided by The Strong National Museum of Play, shows the three toys
being inducted this year into the National Toy Hall of Fame. They are, from left:
sand, The American Girl Doll, and the game of Risk, that are being enshrined during
a ceremony at the hall, located inside The Strong National Museum of Play, in Roch-
ester, NY.
creation of educator Pleasant
Rowland, were recognized for
their exploration of the coun-
try’s social and cultural history.
The 18-inch historical dolls and
accompanying books each off er
insights into an era. For example,
Molly McIntire is waiting for her
father to return home from World
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War II.
The Truly Me contemporary
doll line, with its diversity of skin
tones, hair and gender, followed
in 1995, letting children choose a
doll that looks like them.
Rowland, 80, called the Amer-
ican Girl doll’s inclusion “an
incredible honor.”
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
44/53
Kennewick
45/51
St. Helens
46/53
42/52
Condon
41/54
45/54
A passing
evening shower
Mostly cloudy
Baker City
La Grande
0
27 44 35
Comfort Index™
1
48 37
48 33
Eugene
0
1
4
42/52
49 42
49 45
51 40
0
1
5
2
52 43
52 42
3
5
5
5
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 90°
Low: 5°
Wettest: 1.28”
46°
19°
48°
22°
50°
27°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.26
0.16
4.61
7.64
0.00
0.34
0.44
8.74
14.02
0.14
0.53
0.58
19.04
19.61
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
40%
S at 6 to 12 mph
0.0
0.06
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Powers
44/59
N.A.
12% of capacity
12% of capacity
13% of capacity
6% of capacity
1% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
Umatilla River near Gibbon
Minam River at Minam
Powder River near Richland
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
6:43 a.m. 6:44 a.m.
4:29 p.m. 4:28 p.m.
12:25 p.m. 1:08 p.m.
9:01 p.m. 10:16 p.m.
MOON PHASES
779 cfs
0 cfs
19 cfs
45 cfs
104 cfs
8 cfs
First
Nov 11
Full
Nov 19
Last
Nov 27
Beaver Marsh
New
Dec 3
43/56
Grants Pass
Brookings
Burns
Juntura
33/49
Boise
36/50
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
35/46
Paisley
32/50
Frenchglen
36/49
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
33/46
38/52
36/48
Fields
42/53
36/51
Klamath Falls
32/47
Lakeview
32/45
McDermitt
34/47
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Ontario
35/52
30/47
30/49
Medford
48/57
Huntington
34/48
27/44
43/54
Hermiston
Lakeview
Astoria
SUN & MOON
33/43
Chiloquin
OREGON
On Nov. 9, 1842, a storm dropped 18
inches of snow in west-central Illinois
and one foot in parts of Iowa. That snow
stayed on the ground for six months.
Brothers
27/47
Roseburg
30/44
28/41
36/47
Oakridge
45/57
WEATHER HISTORY
34/47
Seneca
40/52
Coos Bay
Elkhart, Kan.
Antero Reservoir, Colo.
Florence, Ore.
High: 58°
Low: 18°
Wettest: 1.23”
31/49
Council
26/44
John Day
Bend
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
25/42
35/46
Florence
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
ALMANAC
Sisters
44/54
50 38
30/45
Baker City
Redmond
44/53
48/56
Halfway
Granite
41/51
Newport
45 37
2
32 44 40
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
0
Times of clouds
and sun
34/50
39/49
45/55
Corvallis
Enterprise
27/44
32/44
Monument
39/53
Idanha
Salem
SAT
A few afternoon Cloudy, showers
showers
around
26 44 33
Comfort Index™
FRI
Elgin
30/44
La Grande
37/50
Maupin
THU
39/49
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
45/53
Lewiston
36/47
Hood River
38/50
46/53
WED
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Walla Walla
43/56
Vancouver
44/51
TIllamook
TONIGHT
gaming hobby — and by exten-
sion the Euro-games like The Set-
tlers of Catan that many enjoy
today,” curator Nicolas Ricketts
said.
Sand was honored for its
“opportunities for tactical, phys-
ical, cooperative, creative, and
independent free play,” according
to the hall of fame, which
is housed inside The Strong
Museum of Play in Rochester,
New York.
“Children recognize sand
as a creative material suitable
for pouring, scooping, sieving,
raking, and measuring,” it said.
“Wet sand is even better, ready
for kids to construct, shape, and
sculpt.”
“Although some playthings
can only be found online or in
certain stores, sand has a global
reach that most toy manufacturers
would envy,” chief curator Chir-
stopher Bensch said. “It’s been a
vehicle for play since prehistory,
and anyone who has spent the day
at the beach can understand the
allure of this toy.”
The class of 2021 joins 74 pre-
vious honorees.
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
53/49/c
47/47/c
50/41/c
57/52/r
44/37/sn
57/55/c
51/49/c
44/34/pc
44/36/pc
52/51/c
56/45/pc
52/42/c
49/38/c
47/43/c
44/35/pc
56/43/pc
47/40/c
45/38/c
Hi/Lo/W
56/54/sh
59/51/r
51/43/r
61/54/r
56/35/r
62/54/sh
59/55/sh
47/40/c
51/40/r
61/56/sh
55/47/r
51/47/sh
51/43/c
59/48/r
50/40/r
54/45/c
58/37/c
56/33/pc
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
47/39/pc
51/47/c
43/37/pc
53/49/c
53/50/c
50/43/c
52/41/pc
57/41/pc
50/43/pc
54/48/c
59/54/c
49/43/c
56/51/c
55/48/c
45/31/pc
54/43/pc
46/39/c
49/40/pc
Hi/Lo/W
47/43/c
57/54/sh
50/41/r
64/48/c
57/54/sh
54/50/sh
49/42/r
52/44/c
53/45/r
58/55/sh
63/54/c
58/49/r
64/52/c
61/58/sh
43/38/c
50/46/sh
53/47/r
48/44/r
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
29
28
43
36
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Cold
Mostly cloudy
33
32
48
37
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Cold
Cloudy and chilly
32
25
40
34
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Becoming cloudy
Partly sunny
44
35
50
43
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
44
33
44
40
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