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Blue Mountain Eagle
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Our last meal for the month
of August was prepared for
us by Terry Cade and Car-
rie Jewell. We got to eat some
yummy chicken fried steak
with mashed potatoes and
gravy, boiled veggies, din-
ner rolls and chocolate birth-
day cake for our dessert. Sev-
eral of us were considering
going back up for seconds
but thought better of it. I only
wanted another half piece of
chicken fried steak with some
more mashed potatoes and
gravy. It was a good meal,
and we thank our wonderful
cooks.
Jimmy Cole and Bob
Cockrell were the greeters at
the front table. Sylvia Cock-
rell delivered the meals at the
door for those who wanted
to get takeouts. Bob led us
in the flag salute, and yours
truly prayed the blessing over
the meal. Jimmy and Bob
also counted up the money.
We had 27 guests dining in
and 59 takeouts. Dick and
Pam Wanous from Spray also
joined us for lunch.
Well, it sure looks like fall
is on its way. It’s been real
cold in the mornings this past
week. When I say cold, it went
down into the 30s. Don’t you
think that is pretty cold for the
summer? It has been nice not
having to water my garden so
much.
I found one of my nanny
goats under the barn. Lily is
pretty young. She has had one
kid. I went to check on her,
and it looked like her back
end was a little bloody and
messy. So I crawled under the
barn and got her back over to
the goat pen. I locked her up
and got Bonnie from out in
the field also. I knew the three
female goats were going to kid
in September.
It was no trouble at all to
get Bonnie. I shook the goat
treat Ziplock bag at her and
gave her some of the treat. I
hooked a leash to her collar,
and she willingly followed
me back. Easy peazy, right? I
decided to get Chevre the next
day for I ran out of time.
Looks like Lily may have
had her babies out in the field
somewhere and left them. I
heard coyotes yipping in the
night, and she had no babies
in the morning. I should have
been more observant at her
back end and realized that she
had given birth already. I went
to look for where she may
have had her babies, but that
was like looking for a needle
in a haystack. I am pretty sure
the coyotes got them. Sigh.
Getting Chevre back into
the goat pen was another
story entirely. I had to first
catch her. She, on the other
hand, was very suspicious
of me with the goat treats. I
finally caught her, and boy,
she jumped and tried to run
away. I was praising the Lord
for the collar on her neck.
Even though she is heavy
with babies in her belly,
she was very agile and very
strong! To be continued.
Mark 13:24-25 “But in
those days, after the tribula-
tion, the sun shall be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her
light, and the stars of heaven
shall fall, and the powers that
are in heaven shall be shaken.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
My, my, I do believe that
fall is on the way. Keep hear-
ing about low temperatures
around town. Our thermom-
eter hasn’t fallen to freezing
level yet. The squash is still
growing so I keep giving it
a drink every other day. The
birds harvested the sunflower
seeds, so we took the stalks
down. Wonder how many
volunteer plants there will be
next year to surprise us?
The first meal was a
doozy! We had 55 meals go
out the door. The meal was a
generous portion of chicken
fried steak with mashed
potatoes and cream gravy,
cottage cheese with pears,
mixed veggies and a lemon
cookie for dessert. Our
sponsor was Ye Olde Thrift
Shoppe due to their generous
donations through the year.
The entree was a bit spicy
for my mucus membranes,
but the cottage cheese that
cook Pam included calmed
the heat. Most people do not
have any problem with the
seasoning. It’s just me. Any-
way, the meal was good!
Gwynne, Carlos, Mary, Gin-
ger, Carla and Pam got the
meals delivered one way or
another. FYI, delivery of
meals is only for those who
normally cannot come to the
hall to pick up their meal.
The new siding appli-
cation is still progressing.
Takes a lot of figuring to get
the correct measurement on
the old, out-of-square build-
ing sometimes. The house
wrap they put on first makes
a good “note pad.” The menu
information sign has been
cleaned and repainted and
will be reinstalled probably
before you get to read this
column. Now if I could only
find some new letters!
I didn’t realize that last
month was so busy until I
began paying the bills. Found
two bills on my desk that
had gotten lost in the shuf-
fle. Oops. Have to do better
at keeping a neater desktop, I
guess. Happily, they weren’t
bills that carry a late charge,
OFF THE BEATEN PATH
OUT OF THE PAST
Levitation and morphing
first learned of levitation when
my children burst into the house
one summer day. A young son
recounted how the group had been
playing hide-and-seek in the yard, and
he ran into the cornfield to hide. He
roared up a row of corn stalks. When
he crested a hill, a skunk stood there
— locked and loaded, ready for battle.
The son related how he levitated 2 feet
into the air, helicoptered in reverse with
the use of his arms, and when he came
down, his galloping tennis shoes spit an
arc of dirt that scared off the skunk.
I myself eventually experienced lev-
itation. It was a dark and blustery night.
Suddenly a bolt of lightning shot out,
the searing light like a thousand arc
welder flames. Thunder rattled the win-
dows and shook the bed frame where
I’d been asleep. I levitated upward.
When I came to my senses, I was stand-
ing at the bedside clutching my pillow.
The strike zapped the pump house. The
old well pump suffered cardiac arrest,
and we were unable to resuscitate it. We
had to buy a new pump.
A cousin to levitation is morphing.
I
As related by a hunter,
he located a four-point
deer and cornered
him in a canyon. With
stealth, he circled the
site, monitored wind
direction and exhib-
Jean Ann
ited master woodsman
Moultrie
skills. Later, the hunter
dazzled his family
with his hunting prowess tales.
What the hunter didn’t relate until he
heard of my research and contacted me
— the deer had morphed into a burnt
Jeffery pine stump!
My research led me to a situation
where a group experienced both morph-
ing and levitation.
A critique group of romance writ-
ers arranged for a tour bus travel trip
to a western rangeland to get the feel
of sagebrush and juniper stands. In the
country, they hiked down a trail and
paused at a log stretched across the
path. At that point, the act of morphing
occurred when the log looked at them
and morphed into a snake with the girth
of an inflated fire hose.
I hope. Fingers crossed.
Going to take in the yard
sales over Labor Day. Have
to find some birthday gifts,
and Christmas is only four
months away! The ensem-
ble is still trying to get their
Easter presentation to come
together what with illness,
vacations, etc., etc. We have
a date set — again. More fin-
gers crossed. I’m still writ-
ing the Christmas presen-
tation. Will it get done in
time to present this year?
Stay tuned.
When we picked up the
oxygen generator, we found
another person with the rest-
less leg syndrome. His cure?
Cayenne pepper. So we
bought some and are giv-
ing it a try. But my sensitive
nose reacts when Derrol puts
it on his food. Like other
things — peanuts for exam-
ple — it’s good stuff if you
aren’t allergic to it. We are
praying that it will quiet the
symptoms without the side
effects of drugs.
Proverbs 17:22 “A cheer-
ful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up
the bones.”
The romance writers experienced
rapid, low-level levitation back to the
safety inside their vehicle, save for
Betty who levitated onto the hood of the
bus. It took two of her fellow writers to
pry her fingers off the windshield wip-
ers so they could maneuver her up the
steps to her seat.
As a researcher, I’ve had the oppor-
tunity to experience morphing. After a
wind storm, I heard noises in the wood
stove. I opened the stove door and out
flew a rabid bat that brushed down my
arm and disappeared. Since we are a
family of folks who remain calm during
times of fright, I calmly screamed. I
located the rabid bat beneath the sofa
where she had morphed into a frightened
wren. I easily caught and freed her.
My research continues especially
with longer nights, wind-whipped
branches scratching windows, potential
power outages, flashlights that dim…
Jean Ann Moultrie is a Grant County
writer. She’s exploring grants geared to
research involving levitation and mor-
phing, including hunters, and those who
live on dark, lonely roads.
75 years ago
Grant Union High has
tough football schedule this
fall
Grant Union High School
faces its toughest football schedule
in the history of the school this fall.
Coach Tommy Johnson begins his
fifth year as mentor and on the
opening day of practice will be
greeted by 10 lettermen and possi-
bly 11 if Marvin Merrill, star full-
back, does not transfer to Burns.
Lettermen expected to report
are: Captains Glen Gray and Bill
Hyde, tackles; Tommy Mitchell ad
Delbert Willey, ends; Harry Spain
and Pat Mulcare, guards; Bud
Lohf, center; Darrell Van Leuvan,
Dick Welch, Herman Hendricks,
backs.
The schedule includes Half-
way, Madras, Richland, Prineville,
Condon, Burns and Prairie City.
25 years ago
Lady Pros ready to take
another step forward in third
GOL season
Each season has been an
improvement since the Lady
Prospectors volleyball team
moved into the 3A Great
Oregon League in 1994, and
this year looks to be more of
the same.
In 1994, Grant Union was
2-10 in league play before
moving up to 5-7 last year.
This season looks even
brighter as the Pros lose only
one senior from last year and
have seven varsity players
returning.
“We should do fairly
well,” said Prospectors
coach
Karen
Johnston.
“Everyone has a year more
experience and we have
three seniors — Alys, Tonia
and Regina — who have the
last two years playing expe-
rience together.”
The teams to look for in
the GOL this year include
Burns, a team that placed
second in state last year,
Baker and Ontario.
Assistant Coaches are Eva
Saul and Patty Retherford.
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