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SENIORS & HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Prairie City
Seniors
Dusty Harris
Rose Coombs
Another week, and I
wonder what this one will
bring. We all know that our
cooks are wonderful. Can
we say the same about our
weather, I wonder?
I was at the center last
Thursday and visited with
one of the members (I’m
bad about names). We had
a conversation about when
we can go back to the cen-
ter to eat and socialize. I’m
ready, and so is everyone
else.
What’s to eat: on Thurs-
day, chicken enchiladas,
Spanish rice, refried beans
and brownies.
On Jan. 18, we’ll have
hot hamburger with mashed
potatoes and gravy and
cherry
chocolate
chip
bread.
We would like to thank
the following sponsors:
Gloria Phillips in mem-
ory of Delores Janney, St.
Thomas Episcopal Church,
Russ Young, Iron Triangle
and Walt and Agnes Hall.
Thanks to you all for stand-
ing with the senior center.
Until my last breath
I will give thanks to the
Lord. Amen.
For our first meal of this new
year, Tom, Laura B. and Ginger
prepared a very delicious meal
of sweet and sour chicken, rice,
green salad, bread and a lemon
bar topped with cherry syrup.
Now there is a menu with lots
of flavors! Thanks so much for
cooking for us, people. Pam
was at her place at the regis-
tration desk. Carole and Carla
helped with getting the meals to
the people who are able to come
to the center. Carlos made the
home deliveries. We thank all
those who have a part in getting
the work done. And those who
come and support our meal pro-
gram. We still look forward to
the day we can all gather and sit
down to a meal together.
But during this imposed
shut-down, we are continuing
to do long-put-off repairs to
the building. The latest area is
the old kitchen. Everything has
been moved out of the space so
the ceiling can be repaired. We
are also going to get the rest
of the single-pane windows
replaced with more insulating
ones. So if you see construction
activity, that’s what’s going on.
I made a call to Florida with
some questions to an insurance
representative. The funny thing
that happened was that he could
not believe that there was not
one “participating provider” of
their super-duper discount pro-
gram within 100 miles of my
ZIP code. Have the same prob-
lem with some of my book sell-
ers. Wouldn’t I like to sign up
for their special program that
would save me lots of money
— for only $15 a month? Takes
a long time and lots of talking to
convince them that my unequiv-
ocal answer is — and will con-
tinue to be — no! I realize that
the phone answerers have their
script that they have to fol-
low, but it just gets irritating. If
you use the web, do you have
to go through all that rigama-
role? And don’t get me started
on “phone trees.” Guess I better
get of my soapbox now.
Got my first garden cata-
log. With our last frost in early
June, and our first frost in Sep-
tember, I really pore over it for
really fast maturing varieties.
Then you have to make sure
that the plant will grow in our
zone. The photos are certainly
beautiful! The only vegetable
that I grow that looks anything
like the photos are the peas. The
corn ears had kernels hit and
miss. The cucumbers didn’t like
their area so they got a late start
after transplanting. The car-
rots did good. Found one vari-
ety on a seed tape. Hurray! That
should help. Those little fly-
away seeds are very difficult
to dispense one, or even two or
three, at a time. Then if a little
breeze comes up — whoops —
and away they go. Genesis 3:19
— “By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food.”
But at least you know that
when you put a carrot seed in
the ground, you will harvest
carrots, not turnips. So we can
look forward to spring. And it’s
only two months until darn silly
time begins, again. Hope the
Washington, Oregon and Cali-
fornia lawmakers can get their
acts together this year and get
rid of DST. Oops. Have to get
off the soap box again. And I bet
not very many Gen X, Y or Z
have any idea what that expres-
sion means.
Jeremiah 29:5 “Build
houses and settle down; plant
gardens and eat what they
produce.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Terry Cade and Carrie Jew-
ell made us some yummy ham-
burgers, with curly french fries,
macaroni salad, and I think
brownies with cream cheese
frosting on them. It was a good
meal. We thank our cooks and
give them a thumbs up!
Our volunteers were Kristi
Guimont, who filled out the
paperwork. Bob Cockrell and
Jan Ensign counted all the
money. Sylvia Cockrell handed
out the meals at the door to
patrons. I think it is a good and
efficient system that they have
worked out.
We got a crazy snow storm
that came through before the
weekend, so we have snow on
the ground! Praise the Lord for
all this moisture. I pray that it
will have a chance to get warm
so that the melt off will go and
seep into the ground. I love the
snow. I love that we get the four
seasons.
A friend of mine shared
some seed catalogs. I can’t
believe that seed companies
are already sending those out.
So, of course, it got me think-
ing about my garden. I think I
am going to try and grow some
okra this summer. My Chinese
friend Chun made this really
tasty and spicy sauce to dip
blanched okra, and I just gob-
bled them up. I never thought
I liked okra, because they are
kinda slimy, but oh, dipped
in this spicy sauce, they were
really good. Just thinking about
it just made my tummy rumble,
and I’m drooling in my mouth!
Ha.
So a friend here in Monu-
ment is purchasing some of my
baby goats. I am going to give
her Dolly to take because I want
to retire Dolly. Dolly just needs
to live and not have to worry
about having babies. She is, I
think, around 8 or 9 years old.
She may be even older than
that. I believe goats can live
up to 12 or 15 years. I think
she will be happy. The rest of
my baby goats are going to be
advertised via Craigslist. This
will be a good thing. It will help
to offset the price of the hay I
have been feeding them. Those
goats eat a lot of hay, especially
nursing mothers, and they can
be very picky and finicky eaters.
My squished fingers have
now closed up. They look really
good. The new skin is very ten-
der so I have to be very care-
ful. I have some scar tissue, but
I am praying the Lord will take
those away. I am using some
vitamin E oil now and rubbing
that in, for I heard it helps to
lessen scarring. I will let you
know. I do recommend having
raw honey around as medicine!
The Lord’s creation is far supe-
rior in the healing than man-
made medicine in my belief. Of
course, it does not hurt to have
prayer warriors standing in the
gap and praying for you either.
I am blessed, and I thank my
Lord Jesus for healing my man-
gled fingers! God is good, all
the time!
Psalms 100:2 “Serve the
LORD with gladness, come
before His presence with
singing.”
OUT OF THE PAST
75 years ago
Lots of snow piling up in the
mountains
“There’s four feet of snow on
the Izee summit,” said Sig Fer-
guson, Izee mail contractor. In all
sections of the county the reports
are that there is more snow in the
mountains this winter than for
many years past.
It took pieces of county equip-
ment to clear the Izee road of
snow this week. It has been many
years since Grant County has had
this much early snowfall. The
ground is saturated and if another
Chinook wind arrives the citizens
may expect another heavy run of
water.
50 years ago
Snowpacks way above
normal
“Excellent water supplies are
again in prospect for the John
Day Basin during the 1971 sea-
son,” the Soil Conservation Ser-
vice reports.
Dan Wallenmeyer, district
conservationist, says the moun-
tain snowpack is 167 percent of
average on the North Fork John
Day and 179 percent of the aver-
age for the September to October
period.
Wallenmeyer added that
watershed soils are holding
slightly above average amounts
of water, and the flow of the John
Day River at Service Creek was
103 percent of average for Octo-
ber to December.
25 years ago
Fossil Beds joins with Ore-
gon Adopt-A-River programs
The John Day Fossil beds
National Monument has joined
with the Oregon Adopt-A-River
program that invites volunteers
to help clean up and preserve the
state’s waterways and learn the
importance of watershed health
and a good stewardship ethic.
John Fiedor, a ranger at the
park, said the program offers free
materials, including watershed
health information, a step by step
guide to planning a safe and effec-
tive clean up, sample forms and
check list, an extensive resource
guide, garbage collection bags,
buttons, window decals, T-shirts
and program guidance.
Eagle file photo
From 50 years
ago: Heavy rains
and snow runoff
Friday confronted
John Day-Canyon
City residents
with threats of
flooding. Though
damage was held
to a minimum,
county officials
watched the John
Day North Fork
with concern until
the ice broke.
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