Featured Civil War Map

I found this image on Atlas Obscura.Here's the Websites explanation-"It’s 1864 & the Civil War is raging. Southern secession isn’t the only danger threatening the Union. The United States has plenty of other enemies, foreign and domestic. If they got their way, this is what the formerly united states would look like—not two, but four nations jostling for space and supremacy on the land mass between the Pacific and Atlantic."

 

that may yet come to pass.......

 

An interesting read on the origins of some of our disunity is a book written by Colin Woodard: American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.

 

Pshaw Boys ! Y'all know I never talk politics.

 

Saints preserve us!

 

Maybe so...here, at least.
But, like all of us, you think about it, increasingly an' with a certain apprehension. Admit it, bosko...these are perilous times.
You are a citizen of a nation in apparent destabilizing transition. Heads UP!

 

Very nice bit of cartography, good sir!

 

hey, isn't it cherry time.....
cherries..... good rich Yakima Washington American grown dark cherries always make me feel better about life !!!

maybe......we can get cherries into the hands of all those disgruntled folk !!

 

All this stomach-turning skullduggery aside,we were just visiting the halcyoned cherry fields of Hood River & Mosier yesterday.
We found a farm that's been in the same clan since the 1870's & the trees were as stout as ancient oaks.All three of the original farmhouses still stood there in a line:1870,1930,1950.A remarkable place in the Columbia River Gorge.
As another one of my apolitical friends Woodie Guthrie used to sing-'Roll-On Columbia,Roll-On !'.

 

God I hope you're wrong! Nuff said!

 

Come ON, komo...as if a mou'ful of juicy red cherry flesh will cast away the 'gruntle!
Oh, if only life an' its travails were so simply vanquished!
Thanks for the thought, though...
PS: Try Rainier or Royal Anne cherries for a treat.

 

I buy Rainier when I see them here !!

 

it casts away mine !!!!!

 

Mountains o' Rainiers here in the Territory.The Voyageurs ferry them up from the Charbonneau Plain in their birch bark bateaus.

 

Seems bosko is content, livin' inna distant past!
That would be onna Willamette River, sir?

 

You are correct Sir.
Dr. McLoughlin and I will venture down to the Tumwata Village today and join a small band of local Kalapuyans at the falls.
We will endeavor to catch some of the indigenous eel using the natives cleverly fashioned dip netting devices.
The aboriginals generally bring a basket of Wapato and Camassia to complement the meal.

 

Izzat anything like using a smelt rake?
Do y'eat eels? Howya cook'em? Deepfry in Panko, panfry in breadcrumbs, airfry in cracker crumbs, Shake an' Bake inna oven? Inna skin er skinned out? Fries an' 'slaw? Or flatbread an' seaweed? C'mon, man...a curious world awaits this crucial knowledge!

 

We used to LOVE fried eel cut into about 3" pieces......but they're bony li'l divils just the same!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Bonier than a trout? Hardly worth the effort, then...much as I used to love camp-fried trout for breakfast, an' hard as Dad tried to teach how, almost magically, easy it was to eat a 8" fish without havin' to spit out mouthfuls of ribs with every bite...I failed miserably. I gave it up as a lost cause...I eat salmon & steelhead now, an' Sweet Hilde spends a quarter hour pulling the pin-bones outta the filets. I love that woman, surely I do!