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Bitty bug, big eyes, big benefit! Meet the big-eyed bug (Genus Geocoris).
At a mere 1/8 of an inch (3mm) the only big thing about big-eyed bugs are their eyes.
I love my dogs – but – I’m super ready for their collective case of Spring Fever to be over, and it isn’t even really spring yet!
Baseball season is coming and I’m ready for 162 games of relaxing at the ballpark with a transistor radio tuned into the game in one hand, a scorebook in the other and a cold glass of beer under my chair for between innings. My very first major league game was when I was barely old enough to go to school.
To celebrate Women’s History Month this week’s All Things will shine a spotlight on three unique, talented and artistic Oregonians – Ebba Wicks Brown, Marian Wood Kolisch and Toni Pimble.
Self-Heal, Heal-All – Prunella vulgaris
Let me introduce you to a pretty little wildflower that you can find throughout the forests and meadow edges of our area.
More and more, if we get our hands on the right kind of literature, we read of the importance of physical exercise in building up and maintaining good bodily health. The muscles, it seems, instead of resenting any additional burden imposed on them in the name of good health – within reasonable limits, of course – respond by performing some chemical magic that gives us a pleasant feeling of well-being and general fitness, a feeling that is conspicuously absent after prolonged periods of inactivity.
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You don’t need to be Irish to have a lucky St. Patrick’s Day if you whip up one or more of these delicious dishes. We have a variety of classic Irish fare, a classic with a twist of simplicity and…a recipe with stout because without Guiness is it really St. Pat’s?