Bob Keefer
Is a writer and photographer who lives in rural Oregon.
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Tomatoes, at last!
After a long, cold, wet spring — and a sudden hot late summer — our tomato plants finally started producing salad yesterday.
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PCT Day 64: Another pair of shoes
Noah’s about half way through the four months he figures it will take him to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada.
And he’s on his third pair of trail running shoes. The pair shown above is No. 2, which just got him through hundreds of miles of snow and ice in the Sierra.
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Buried treasure
While sweeping the floor the other day after taking down the rest of the structure of the old — 1880s-vintage — house, I looked down and saw a penny in the pile of dirt, insulation scraps and rusty nails I’d swept up. A penny: I almost ignored it. But I reached down and got it instead and took a closer look, and found a 1906 Indian head that must have been buried in a wall or between the floor boards upstairs.
“Kind of makes it all worth it,” my wife said. (She was kidding.)
But it is pretty cool. People have lived here a long time by Oregon standards. Makes me wonder who lost it, and what it might have been able to buy in 1906.
Meanwhile, the old house is all but gone, just a few floor joists and foundation blocks left to remove. It’s been interesting, if labor-intensive, disassembling a house instead of demolishing it.
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Ballet Fantastique
Hannah Bontrager from Eugene’s Ballet Fantastique dances at the Green Show during the outdoor theater season’s opening weekend last week at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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PCT Day 20: More miles, more food, more gear to carry
Now at about mile 420, Noah’s hungrier than he planned on. So I added 16 Slim Jims, 8 salami and cheese snacks, 4 packs of gorp and one really bland looking (but fairly palatable) pack of dense protein bar to his already stuffed box of trail food I’ll mail tomorrrow to him at Kennedy Meadows, where he picks up supplies for the big push through the Sierra. Also ready to ship tomorrow, a second box packed full of cold weather gear, including extra socks, gloves, wool hat, balaclava, a down sweater, a change of underwear… and an ice axe.
Noah will have a lot to carry in the high mountains.
He phoned in today, doing great, feet are in almost perfect shape and averaging more than 21 miles a day for his first 20 days, with no strain. He was chowing down on pizza in a motel room with Lisa.
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