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About half shot

Eric Mortenson

Oregon, family, journalism, bad golf, history, politics, writing, cooking, gardening. dogs and cats, and probably some other things.

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The War of the Spiders is over.

This imposing fellow, now deceased, must have measured 10cm, almost 4 inches, from leg tip to leg tip, from leg tip to leg tip, and so on with four more leg tips.

We have a 117-year-old house, with a dim basement, in damp Portland,...

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Boxcutters.

It took me two weekends to cut up all the cardboard boxes piled on the side of the house. We bought an assemble-it-yourself sauna kit, of all things, and the lumber, heater, glass door, sheetmetal roof panels and other parts weighed about 1...

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"Friends, Americans, countrymen...”

“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things...”

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Red peppers under an orange sun.

I nearly picked this too early, in my haste. But ripeness comes to those who wait, as they say. This variety is called Jimmy Nardello’s, and it’s described as intensely sweet. I haven’t grown this variety before but I like the looks...
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Picturing life in Japan.

There and back again: Fuji-san from a train in Japan and Mount Rainier, Tahoma, from a plane over America’s Pacific Northwest. We flew over Mount St. Helens and Mount Hood, too, on our way back to Portland, but I couldn’t get a good...
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