Oysterville Daybook Archives
They made it look so easy!
It took a lot of looking and a lot of "interviewing" to find a company that said, "Yes! We can repair your chimney! No problem!" And, amazingly, their quote was not as high as the company who had been most highly recommended and who had...
Sometimes you get more than you paid for………
...and WAY more than you expected! So it was with Joel Underwood's show at the River Sea Playhouse in Ilwaco last night. (And why am I not surprised?) It was billed as “Woodie Guthrie, Hank Williams, Kris Kristofferson: How Folk Came to...
Hooray for Marta Roonie Bobs!
Marta Roonie Bobs aka my Bonus Daughter, Marta LaRue, made the front page of the March 29th online edition of the venerable Marin Independent Journal (published in San Rafael, California since I was a Freshman at San Rafael High School back in...
He said… She said: Chinook Observer, 2004
Still deep into my purging of files, I ran across this "Nature Notes" column by Craig Sparks in the March 3, 2004 Observer and my response in the following week's paper. The entire episode still makes me more than a little annoyed. I apologize...
Seems like yesterday… NOT!
My only excuse is that it's a big house... with lots of nooks and crannies, closets and hidey holes, and out-of-the-way places to stash projects that "I'll surely get back to soon..." So it is, that with Cousin Alex's moving-in date imminent, I am...
It Is A Wonderment For Sure!
No one in all my long life has ever credited me with a green thumb. Nor a brown one, for that matter. I've managed to stay out of the gardening and growing arena for the most part and during the 40 years I was with Nyel, I felt guilt-free as he...
Quilting at the Beach
I spent a lovely part of yesterday afternoon at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum wandering through this year's Peninsula Quilt Guild's "Quilting at the Beach" exhibit. I had the good fortune to be with Carol and Tucker Wachsmuth. Carol is a...
Forty-six years is quite a many…
In my ninety years, I've lived with my parents, my husbands, my son, and with various cats and dogs. But the housemate who takes the prize for "housemate longevity" is... Fern! I've lived with Fern over three generations of her lifetime -- first...
It Takes A… Village?
According to Google, or more accurately, to Google's bots, a village is a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area. Well, it goes without saying that Oysterville is smaller...
I asked a question… and guess who answered?
I was talking to my friend Jean Nitzel (who now lives clear across the country, in Maine) earlier tonight, and she mentioned that she needed to write "a little something" for the re-dedication of the Long Beach Boardwalk next month. She, along...
Sorta like being biddy and lady at the same time…
Another piece of wisdom from my mom: "You can't be biddy and lady at the same time..." She said that relative to her enthusiasm for presenting dinner parties in the "grand fashion" -- four or five courses, each consisting of delectable (and often...
The Red House Cousins
My great-grandparents, Julia and Robert Espy had eighteen grandchildren, many of whom were named "Julia" or "Robert" for the simple reason that Grandpa offered $1,000 (or was it $10,000?) for each grandchild so-named. One of my mother's fondest...