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Tillamook Creamery

Posted on October 29, 2024 | 6 comments

Flower, the beautiful bovine invites us in for a grand tour of the Tillamook Creamery in Oregon!

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Here are the highlights from the Hubster’s and my tour up in the viewing gallery:

There are sharp rotating blades in the very large vats.

Salt is the only additive, and it is added in the last step before compressing the curds into 40 pound blocks.

As the cutting machine cuts big blocks into pieces, the workers keep pace while breaking apart pieces, inspecting them, and putting them on the belt.

Tillamook Creamery cuts about a million pounds of cheese a week!

That’s about 115 two pound baby loafs a minute!

You can also visit a cheese and gift store, as well as the dining hall to get good eats!

See the world around you!

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Log Flume Heritage Site

Posted on October 26, 2024 | 4 comments

A frequent place that the Hubster and I like to get back to nature in is the Log Flume Heritage Site. It is so peaceful!

You can tell we love it here just by going to the bottom of this post and seeing the previous posts about this park. I was reviewing those, and noticed the seasonal changes as we visited at different times of the year. It seems that I need a winter post to add to the fun!

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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” – Aristotle

“Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints.” – Frederic Gros

“We don’t stop hiking because we grow old. We grow old because we stop hiking.” – Finis Mitchell

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Isaac Newton

“The Earth has music for those who listen.” – William Shakespeare

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” – Anne Frank

Log Flume Heritage Site

Gone Hiking – Log Flume Heritage Site

Log Flume Heritage Site

See the world around you!

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Marcus Island

Posted on October 24, 2024 | 4 comments

“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” –Laura Ingalls Wilder

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“For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” –Wendell Berry

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” –John Lennon

“Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.” –John Lubbock