New Transplant to the SoCal...

That is what they say. I am really allergic to fleas and I hate humidity and heat, but I love to garden and be able to grow most anything. I love green and am originally from Ohio, so I may be able to do it.

Sorry to jack the thread

I wouldn't call the winters cold here...we are zone 8!

Beth, I beg to differ! I visited my family in Eugene last month and my feet didn't thaw out for two days! Some of us are just not made for cold weather, and I'm one of 'em! LOL

Bless my DBIL who dug out a pair of winter woolen socks for me to sleep in!

I suppose everything is by comparison. If you ask people in Wisconsin and Minnesota if we have cold winters here in Oregon, they would laugh at us. I know cause my Mom is from Wisconsin....

I am always cold and can not warm up in my hands or feet once they are cold. It is relative, but I am in 8b and get cold winters too, but rarely snow that sticks more than a day and not more than Jan, Feb, March and then not always cold in those months in their entirety.

We are on the valley floor and the rare times we get any snowflakes...they melt right away. There have only been a few times in the last 20 years that I can remember the snow sticking around for a couple days.

What part of Oregon is this? By what big cities?

Albany/Salem

Oh I had them on my list as affordable options in Redmond, Albany and Corvalis. Poor Ken is going to kick us off his thread as I am discussing leaving the state he moved to. lol dmail me if you want to. I talked to a lot of people from Oregon and Texas about the areas that were good. I looked on the internet too and my atlas.

hiya Ken,

Welcome to Southern California!, this forum, and if your lucky, the roundup so eloquently touted herein......or was that tutu-ed?

I've got the tutu, the feather boa, the bouffant wig, the toe-shoes (do steel-toed boots qualify?) All set for when Mike decides that attending as absurd event as a wedding while the Hair Club for Men still advertises that "She'll Never Know the Difference" is worth any amount of familial guilt. I went looking for matching pumps, but the tutu is actually a very pale ecru, and Manolo's didn't have size 12DDD with the 6in stainless steel spikes. So I settled on winning an Ebay bidding war with an obvious foot-fetisher for a pair of Bea Arthur's......or was it Betty White's cast offs where the proceeds will go to the neutering of cross-dressing Nazi War Criminal public school superintendents. You know......it's really never to late to fix a goose-stepping pedophile in Prada.

Okie Ken, now if your not completely terrified about leaving the land of 24hr mist systems over the door of the liquor store for the bright lights and lascivious plights of the unwashed but thoroughly botox-ed, you should come to the roundup. BTW, if you really want a neighborhood friendly to exotics (no Mike, I wasn't about to go into the house for sale next to Pee Wee Hermann's place), check out Pasadena, La Canada, Arcadia, Sierra Madre and that area. Not only is it close to the Huntington Plant Sales for the really rare stuff, but your neighbors there will have specimen exotics they'd pay someone to remove. I can't think of a better place to find a 40yr old Ficus lyrata where the owner of the plant pays you to have it.

Abject lesson 1 concluded,
don

egads, I work in Corvallis but would never live here. Way too expensive.

We just finished our annual trip down the Oregon Coast.......truly beautiful.....and wet.....and cold.....and green.....and it's paradise for salamanders and people wearing suspenders to the tabernacle.

We love Oregon!.....and Kimchee

three cheers for Rogue River Steelhead fishing and roadside attractions that even the sage Tom Robbins couldn't imagine.

lasik.....ally yers,
don

The Rogue River Jet Boat excursions are not to be missed. (best in the summer cause you'll get soaked!)

I think we have chased Ken off his own thread Dr. Don. You know that was a scary little visual. Besides you would have had to cut your toes off in the Manolo's.*&^%

Is Dave coming this year? We are in a controversial discussion on the subject last night. (Jo and I on chat)

Jerry's Jet Boats!!!

We love em, but steelhead fishing is a quiet pursuit that has the added benefit of being lunch.

More Lincoln City, hail to the builders of the Inn at Spanish Head, more museums dedicated to Myrtlewood, chainsaw art, and curious things made from shells.

Who was the Coos in Coos Bay?

Don you sure have a hectic week again, just like last year during the RU. I guess my question is a surprise answer ha?

I hate fishing. I cry when I catch them, if they only died instantly I would be happy, I end up having to pull hooks out of their mouth or have someone bash it. Not for me. I like my carnivorous ways to leave the animal murders on someone else's hands.

Doggone it, don't ask questions like that. Had to go look it up, as it's one of those things one just MUST know!
The answer: Native Americans

Well I am being shunned so I assume the question is taboo. Well then, moving right along.

What she said, that is my final answer.

I want to see the Inn at Spanish Head. I looked up alot of places in Oregon to live in and I believe that Lincoln was on the list. Have to see in my Atlas notes.

Which question, Dawn? What who said? I think we cross-posted. lol

Thanks Kathleen!

I looked all over for some bloody explanation, yet alas, it came from here.

I guess the Jerry Lee Lewis children's museum in Brookings probably wasn't the right venue to pose that question to a docent anyway......lol.

A toast to the guy who invented the light switch. Sure glad he figured out a way to get that light in the bulb. Did that make any sense to consumers who think that 12pak of Rib-eyes at Costco came from a bandsaw manufacturing plant next to a cattle crossing in Omaha?

here's to that video clip on Utube of me chasing that Angus steer with a fork and a knife, and of course, cheers to Northern Pike fishermen with clubs.

I see no link to the alleged Steer Chasing incident.

Ken is reading this and I am sure he will fit right in to California.

I sure wish my husband would fish....I love to clean them and cook them. Alas, he can't swim and the last time he tried to go fishing he fell in the river. He won't try it again :(

For good reason, I'm thinking Beth. You selfish little thing. lol I am kidding. Good fish is expensive too. I am picky about fish though. Can you kill them for me Beth?

I don't know if I could kill a fish. I have no problem with filleting and cleaning them. Do you just hit them with a stick?

Geeze!
This thing sure grew legs!!! LOL

Oh trust me, I can hang...

Yes it did grow lakes and skated away from the topic ha?

How is your search going? Where have you looked and where are you going to look, if you know? Do you have a job already?

Ok back to fishing! lol ps. I thought you just stand over the water with a pan and call fishy, fish, here fishy, fishy, fishy!%$##

Oh he's been looking but its kind of hard to read the newpaper print through the bottom of a beer bottle.
Anybody have a van down by the river he can sleep in?
Hey Ken!!!! River? Fish? Van for sleeping? Does it get any better?

And when you guys go fishing take Ken with you. Not sure if he has ever seen a fishing pole before or remember how to place a worm on a hook.

Worm, HOOK? Is that how it's done. Crap! This explains a lot.

Ray I assume you know this traitor of your land and that must mean he has no work yet?

We send our homeless to skid row in Los Angeles, I bet someone will let him set up a nice box next to them. They send trucks to feed them too and people hand them clothes, he can even catch a nice sermon while here until he finds a job.

The fishing, van thing has it's merits too though.

We are kidnapping your people to Ray and bringing them to our RU this weekend. Wish you could join us.

I think it is really OUR RU now as it is the Western Regional RU per Dave.

Dawn Ray is the owner of the pink leotards and the flying monkeys. Ken just borrows them sometimes!!

Well, I have a job, but no place to live.
Looks like I may be homeless for a while! LOL
I hear the weather is nice enough to sleep in parks?

And as far as fish goes, I always thought you caught them with foam and saran wrap at the supermarket...

psssst...
Marie is a stalker... LOL

Dont believe a word Marie says. It all started with a comment about looking for scorpions or something like that with black lights and after the ladies got done with it I ended up in black tights and fishnets wearing a pink tutu. Kind of hard to find scorpions wearing an outfit like that and keep the neighbors from calling the police on you.

And the same goes for weegy12. I never once stepped foot near her kio pond and waterfall wearing my leopard skin speedo while trying to do my cliff diving impression from on top of it.

I 2nd that Marie is a stalker. LOL

Yeah I enjoy stalking two guys in black tights and fishnets wearing a pink tutu and monkeys flying around their heads that would be me. Not!!!

Even if you WERE to wear tights, fishnets and a pink tutu in L.A. , no one would give it a second thought.

Koi pond divers are a dime a dozen here...they're called RACCOONS !

See you both will fit right in!! You might want to leave your cowboy boot here though.

You can join all the other "campers" in MacArthur Park!

You all have OBVIOUSLY never seen my "Infamous" BBQ picture... LOL

(and don't bother asking, I ain't posting it here!)

...I'm pretty sure it is in violation of DG rules... LOL

Well all bets are off at the RU so feel free to bring a copy or Marie, get on it, you can bring it.

I hope you aren't the guy who always says, "I have a great idea, let's have all the guys at the RU come in drag"! We had a biker friend like that and it was hysterical until he tried picking up on my dh.

I've actually been seen in pink tights and .........I must say.......I looked fabulous.......of course it was in 1983, but I remember.......most of it.


As far as sleeping in parks goes, I think you should go for it as there is a vibrant and eclectic homeless population in Los Angeles that actually has figured out a way to get paid for being homeless.

As far as a man missing an opportunity to join in on an infamous roundup.......well, I can only say that maybe he/ken isn't quite fit for duty here in THE state. One should always remember that California is actually the ninth largest economy on Earth. Those who come here to work should be reminded that we, whom have lived here already know how incredible the advantages are here. Let's not judge ken by his absence from our gatherings, but rather invite him to join us some other time when he has cell phone service under the overpass he may be sleeping under.

rather dubiously yours,
the man who actually can feed fishes to the masses.