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Connect some dots

7 years ago 2 min read Stories About the WestArtcentral oregontrails
Most of us remember connect-the-dot puzzles, moving a pencil around a piece of partially printed newsprint from numbered dot to numbered dot until a composition is revealed.
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Cocktail Basics

7 years ago 6 min read Cocktails
Updated 12/2021 I created this guide for basic cocktail making when a friend retired. His wife, who was not retired, thought he might want to work on his cocktail skills to ensure
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Whiskey Cocktail Recipes

7 years ago 2 min read Cocktailswhiskey
There are so many ways to love whiskey. For the most part, we do not discriminate about where the whiskey comes from (though we are wary of the Indiana whiskey, primarily on principle)
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Gin Cocktail Recipes

7 years ago 3 min read Cocktailsgin
Gin! It’s made from juniper berries! No other plant is more iconic to the West than the juniper bush (except possibly the tumbleweed). From the deserts to the mountains its twisted, bushy,
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Shivers!

7 years ago 2 min read Stories About the Westcentral oregoncougarscoyotesdarknessdogstrail running
A few weeks ago, before we moved to our house on the edge of the forest, and one of the last times I pulled into the Maston trailhead parking lot in the dark, I was not surprised to be the only car.
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