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March 8: International Women’s Day, National Peanut Cluster Day, National Proofreading Day, National Day of Unplugging, National Tartar Sauce Day, and National Oregon Day.

👩‍💼International Women’s Day! This global day celebrates the cultural, political, social and economic achievements of women. The day also brings international awareness to gender parity. According to the World Economic Forum, global gender equality is estimated to be achieved by 2133.

🥜🍫National Peanut Cluster Day! Melted chocolate mixed with peanuts make a perfect combination for a sweet and salty deliciousness! Two things had to happen for peanut clusters to even exist. First, a method had to be invented for the cocoa bean to be processed and transformed into what we know as chocolate. That process wasn’t widely used until about the late 1890s and just about the same time the second extraordinary thing happened; agriculture found a way to grow the peanut and bring it to the public with steel tools and steam power. It didn’t take long for confectioneries to add the now readily available peanuts to melted chocolate. The sheer simplicity of the salty peanuts added to sweetened chocolate is a mouthwatering temptation few can resist, even today.

📖National Proofreading Day! This day was created to bring awareness to the importance of proofreading. National Proofreading Day promotes mistake-free writing. Carefully review all your letters and documents to make a positive and professional impression. National Proofreading Day was created by Corporate Trainer Judy Beaver. March 8, her mother’s birthday, was chosen to honor her and her love of correcting people.

🔌National Day of Unplugging! This holiday consists of a 24 hour period from sundown to sundown, to unplug, unwind, relax and do things other than using today’s technology, electronics, and social media.

🍁National Tartar Sauce Day! Tartar sauce compliments more than just fish. It can be used for dunking fries, fritters and battered appetizers, tartar sauce adds a zesty tang to fried foods. When used as a sauce, it adds a creamy brightness to fish, chicken and beef recipes. As a marinade, it’s excellent for grilling. Mix it into a pasta or potato salad. Add it to steamed vegetables and tartar sauce completes a meal. But tartar sauce doesn’t stop there! Have a hankering for Tex-Mex? Add some to your Tex-Mex tacos. For sweeter dipping, mix a little coconut extract into the sauce. Turn up the heat with wasabi but keep it fresh with chopped cucumber. For every season, from shore to garden, tartar sauce adds up to a versatile condiment no matter where you are. Frisch’s Big Boy founded National Tartar Sauce Day in 2017 in honor of the tangy sauce that has become more than just topping for fried fish. Samuel Frisch opened the first Frisch’s cafe in 1905 in Cincinnati. In 1923, son Dave Frisch took over operations with two of his siblings after his father’s death. In 1946, Dave Frisch sampled the first Big Boy double decker hamburger. In what proves to be a momentous decision, Dave Frisch makes the Big Boy sandwich using his homemade tartar sauce to replace the original recipe that called for Thousand Island dressing. Dave’s signature tartar sauce becomes a staple on Frisch’s menu. It has been sold in pint jars for the take-home market since 1960. During Lent, Frisch’s tartar sauce is in high demand for its Frisch Fry menu, but its original claim to fame was on the Big Boy sandwich.

🇺🇸National Oregon Day! Oregon with 98,000 square miles (250,000 km2), is the ninth largest U.S. state. Its population makes it the 27th most populous U.S. state. Oregon's capital of Salem is the second most populous city in the state. Portland is the most populous and ranks as the 26th most populous city in the United States. Mount Hood a stratovolcano is the state's highest point at 11,249 feet (3,429 m). Oregon's lowest point is the Pacific Ocean. The states nickname is The Beaver State, Motto: She flies with her own wings, and its State song: "Oregon, My. Living insignia; Bird: 🕊Western meadowlark, Crustacean: 🦀Dungeness crab, Fish: 🐟Chinook salmon, Flower: 🌸Oregon grape, Grass: 🌾Bluebunch wheatgrass, Insect: 🦋Oregon swallowtail, Mammal: American beaver, Tree: 🌲Douglas-fir, Inanimate insignia; Beverage: 🥛Milk, Dance: 💃Square dance, Food: 🍐Pear, Fossil: Metasequoia, Gemstone: Oregon sunstone, Rock: Thunderegg, Shell: Oregon hairy triton, Slogan: The Union, Soil: Jory soil, Other; Nut: Hazelnut. Oregon's only national park, Crater Lake National Park, comprises the caldera surrounding Crater Lake (1,943 feet (592 m)), the deepest lake in the United States. The state is also home to the single largest organism in the world, Armillaria ostoyae, a fungus that runs beneath 2,200 acres (8.9 km2) of the Malheur National Forest. Oregon is also home to Mill Ends Park (in Portland), the smallest park in the world at 452 square inches (0.29 m2). Because of Oregon's diverse landscapes and waterways, its economy is largely powered by various forms of agriculture, fishing, and hydroelectric power. Oregon is also the top timber producer of the contiguous United States. Technology is another one of Oregon's major economic forces, beginning in the 1970s with the establishment of the Silicon Forest and the expansion of Tektronix and Intel. Sportswear company Nike, Inc., headquartered in Beaverton, is the state's largest public corporation. During the prehistoric period, the Willamette Valley region was flooded after the collapse of glacial dams from Lake Missoula, located in what would later become Montana. These massive floods occurred during the last glacial period and filled the valley with 300 to 400 feet (91 to 122 m) of water. The first Europeans to visit southern Oregon were Spanish explorers in 1543 led by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. Exploration was retaken routinely in 1774, starting with the expedition of the frigate Santiago by Juan José Pérez Hernández, and the coast of Oregon became a valuable trading route to Asia. British captain James Cook also explored the coast in 1778. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries French Canadian and trappers and missionaries arrived in the eastern part of the state. Some stayed permanently. The evidence of this French Canadian presence can be found in the numerous names of French origin in that part of the state, including Malheur Lake and the Malheur River, the Grande Ronde and Deschutes rivers, and the city of La Grande. David Thompson was the first British (European) to navigate the whole Columbia River. He made one stop along the way at the junction of the Snake River to claim the region for Great Britain and the North West Company that he worked for. The first permanent European settlement in Oregon, Fort Astoria was financed by New Yorker John Jacob Astor for his Pacific Fur Company at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1811. The British gained control of all Pacific Fur Company in the War of 1812 but the Treaty of 1818 seen British and American joint occupancy west of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The Hudson's Bay Company dominated the Pacific Northwest by the 1820s and 1830s from its Columbia District headquarters at Fort Vancouver. Sir George Simpson, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1841 reversed the company's policy of discouraging settlement due to it interfering with the lucrative fur trade. In an attempt to hold Columbia District governor Simpson order some 200 Red River Colony settlers be relocated to HBC farms near Fort Vancouver. The Oregon Trail brought many new American settlers to the Oregon in 1842 - 43. There was a dispute over Oregon's borders between Britain and the United States but it was settle peacefully in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty. The Oregon Territory was officially organized on August 13, 1848. Settlement increased with the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 and the forced relocation of the native population to Indian reservations in Oregon. (This next part I did not want to misinterpret so I left it intact.) In December 1844, Oregon passed its Black Exclusion Law, which prohibited African Americans from entering the territory while simultaneously prohibiting slavery. Slave owners who brought their slaves with them were given three years before they were forced to free them. Any African Americans in the region after the law was passed were forced to leave, and those who did not comply were arrested and beaten. They received no less than twenty and no more than thirty-nine stripes across their bare back. If they still did not leave, this process could be repeated every six months. Slavery played a major part in Oregon's history and even influenced its path to statehood. The territory's request for statehood was delayed several times, as members of Congress argued among themselves whether the territory should be admitted as a "free" or "slave" state. Eventually politicians from the south agreed to allow Oregon to enter as a "free" state, in exchange for opening slavery to the southwest United States. Oregon was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859. Founded as a refuge from disputes over slavery, Oregon had a "whites only" clause in its original state Constitution. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, regular U.S. troops were withdrawn and sent east. Volunteer cavalry recruited in California were sent north to Oregon to keep peace and protect the populace. The First Oregon Cavalry served until June 1865. In the 1880s, due to the abundance of timber and waterway access via the Willamette River, Portland became a major force in the lumber industry and quickly became the state's largest city. On Gearhart Mountain near Bly six people were killed by a Japanese bomb that exploded on May 5, 1945. This is the only fatal attack on the United States mainland committed by a foreign nation since the Mexican–American War, making Oregon the only U.S. state that has experienced fatal casualties by a foreign army since 1848. The bombing site is now located in the Mitchell Recreation Area. The 1933–37 construction of the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River started the Industrial expansion. Hydroelectric power, food, and lumber provided by Oregon helped fuel the development of the West, although the periodic fluctuations in the U.S. building industry have hurt the state's economy on multiple occasions. Portland in particular experienced a population boom between 1900 and 1930, tripling in size; the arrival of World War II also provided the northwest region of the state with an industrial boom, where Liberty ships and aircraft carriers were constructed. In 1994, Oregon became the first U.S. state to legalize physician-assisted suicide through the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. A measure to legalize recreational use of marijuana in Oregon was approved on November 4, 2014, making Oregon only the second state at the time to have legalized gay marriage, physician-assisted suicide, and recreational marijuana. In 2016, the Willamette Valley region produced over 100 million pounds (45 kt) of blueberries. Oregon is also one of four major world hazelnut growing regions, and produces 95% of the domestic hazelnuts in the United States. Southern Oregon produces 7% of the U.S.'s cranberries. Oregon farmers and ranchers also produce cattle, sheep, dairy products, eggs and poultry. Oregon has one of the largest salmon-fishing industries in the world. In 2015, a total of seven companies headquartered in Oregon landed in the Fortune 1000: Nike, at 106; Precision Castparts Corp. at 302; Lithia Motors at 482; StanCorp Financial Group at 804; Schnitzer Steel Industries at 853; The Greenbrier Companies at 948; and Columbia Sportswear at 982. The oldest college is Willamette University, which was established 1842, and is the oldest university in the Western United States. The oldest community college is Southwestern Oregon Community College which was established in 1959. Oregon supports a total of seven public universities, one affiliate and three public research universities. UO is the state's highest nationally-ranked and most selective public university by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. OSU is the state's only land-grant university. OSU receives more annual funding for research than all other public higher education institutions in Oregon combined. The state's urban Portland State University has Oregon's second largest enrollment. The state has three regional universities. The quasi-public Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) includes medical, dental, and nursing schools. The state also supports 17 community colleges. Oregon has a wide variety of private colleges, the majority of which are located in the Portland area. Oregon is home to three major professional sports teams: the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA, the Portland Thorns of the NWSL and the Portland Timbers of MLS. Most of Oregon has a generally mild climate, though there is significant variation given the variety of landscapes across the state. Western Oregon's climate is heavily influenced by the Pacific Ocean. The relative humidity of Western Oregon is high except during summer days, which are semi-dry to semi-humid. Eastern Oregon typically sees low humidity year-round. The state's southwestern portion, has a Mediterranean climate, where the northeastern portion has a steppe climate, and its high terrain regions have a subarctic climate. The eastern two thirds of Oregon, which largely comprise high desert, have cold, snowy winters and very dry summers. Much of the east is semiarid to arid, though the Blue Mountains are wet enough to support extensive forests. Most of Oregon receives significant snowfall, but the Willamette Valley, has considerably milder winters for its latitude and typically only sees light snowfall. The state ranks fifth for coolest summer temperatures of any state in the country. Oregon's highest recorded temperature is 119°F (48°C) at Pendleton on August 10, 1898, and the lowest recorded temperature is -54°F (-48°C) at Seneca on February 10, 1933. Things to do in Oregon: 1️⃣Multnomah Falls is a waterfall located in the Columbia River Gorge. Spanning two tiers on basalt cliffs, it is the tallest waterfall in the state of Oregon at 620 ft (189 m) in height and is the most-visited natural recreation site in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The state of Oregon maintains a switchback trail that ascends to a talus slope 100 feet (30 m) above the falls, and descends to an observation deck that overlooks the falls' edge. A paved foot trail leads to Benson Footbridge, a 45-foot (14 m)-long footbridge that allows visitors to cross 105 feet (32 m) above the lower cascade. After a viewpoint of the upper falls, the trail continues to ascend to an elevation of 785 feet (239 m); it consists of eleven switchbacks which reach a forested talus slope 100 feet (30 m) above the falls. The trail then descends to an observation deck (elevation 660 feet (200 m)) overlooking the falls' edge providing visitors a bird's-eye view of the Columbia Gorge and also of "Little Multnomah", a small cascade slightly upstream from the "upper" falls, which is not visible from ground level. There are a number of trail junctions along the footpaths ascending to the falls' observation deck, which allow access to a 5.4 miles (8.7 km) trail loop to other nearby waterfall. The Mark O. Hatfield Memorial Trail, one of several, starts at the falls and continues through the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge to Starvation Creek. 2️⃣Crater Lake National Park: Crater Lake is the fifth-oldest national park in the United States and the only national park in Oregon. The park encompasses the caldera of Crater Lake, a remnant of a destroyed volcano, Mount Mazama, and the surrounding hills and forests. The lake is 1,949 feet (594 m) deep at its deepest point, which makes it the deepest lake in the United States, the second-deepest in North America and the ninth-deepest in the world. The national park encompasses 183,224 acres (286.3 sq mi; 741.5 km2). Unlicensed fishing is allowed without any limitation of size, species, or number. Kokanee salmon and rainbow trout thrive in the lake. Swimming is allowed in the lake and there are boat tours to Wizard Island, a cinder cone inside the lake. All lake access for people is from Cleetwood Trail, a steep walking trail. Numerous observation points along the caldera rim for the lake are readily accessible by automobile via the "Rim Drive", which is 33 miles (53 km) long and has an elevation gain of 3,800 feet (1,200 m). The highest point in Crater Lake National Park is Mount Scott at 8,929 feet (2,722 m). Getting there requires a fairly steep 2.5-mile (4.0 km) hike from the Rim Drive trailhead. On a clear day, visibility from the summit exceeds 100 miles (160 km), and one can, in a single view, take in the entire caldera. Also visible from this point are the white-peaked Cascade Range volcanoes to the north, the Columbia River Plateau to the east, and the Western Cascades and the more-distant Klamath Mountains to the west. The scenery of Crater Lake is fully accessible during the summer months. Heavy snowfalls in this park during the fall, winter, and spring months force many road and trail closures, including "Rim Drive". 🎒The Cleetwood Cove trail originates on the north side of the lake and is the only trail that accesses the shoreline of the lake, descending 656 feet (200 m) from the Cleetwood Cove parking lot. The trail is 1.1 mi (1.8 km) long with an 11% grade that rates it as a strenuous route on the return trip. Due to its steep grade, the trail is not accessible for mobility-impaired visitors. A dock with concessionaire boats facilitates tours around the lake with a stop at Wizard Island for dropping off and picking up passengers. 🎒The Watchman Peak trail begins from the Watchman Overlook parking lot and ends next to a historic fire lookout tower built in 1932. The trail is 0.8 mi (1.3 km) long with a 420-foot (130 m) elevation change. It is a steady uphill trail on an isolated mountain on the west rim of the crater, with several switchbacks, providing wide views of Crater Lake and Wizard Island. Several nearby landmarks are visible from the summit, including Mount McLoughlin, Mount Thielsen, Union Peak, Mount Scott and the Klamath Basin. 🎒The Lightning Spring trail starts from the Lightning Spring picnic area. It is a 3⁄4-mile (1.2 km) hike with an elevation gain of 250 feet (76 m). The trail circles around several meadows up to the Lightning Spring creek. The trail is known for the frequent sights of grazing deer. 🎒Castle Crest Wildflower Garden trail is considered to be the easiest looping trail. It starts from the East Rim Road, near the park's headquarters. It received its name because of a large stretch of meadows around which the trail circles and which is bursting with wildflowers in the springtime. The trail is about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) before it reaches the wildflower meadow garden, from which other improvised routes depart. 🎒The Plaikni Falls trail stretches 1.1 miles (1.8 km) from the trailhead located 1.2 miles (1.9 km) south from the Phantom Ship Overlook on Pinnacles Road. The trail leads to Plaikni Falls. Most of the trail is wheelchair-accessible. The final stretch is fairly uphill, which may prove moderately challenging. 🎒The Garfield Peak trail is a moderately challenging 1.7-mile (2.7 km) hike to Garfield Peak and gains approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) of elevation. Several spots along the trail provide viewpoints overlooking the Phantom Ship island and Dutton Cliff. A few viewpoints offer unique views of Wizard Island. The trail is popular in the late afternoon on account of unique shifting colors over the lake and its surroundings. Plaikni Falls is located in a glacier carved cliff surrounded by walls of petrified volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Mazama. Full views of the cascade can be seen at the end of a 1 mile easy walk, wheel-chair accessible trail. The trail is surrounded by old-growth fir and hemlock forests rich in wildflowers. The name of the waterfall comes from a Native American word that means "from the high country". Phantom Ship Island derives its name from its resemblance to a ghost ship, especially in foggy and low-light condition. Phantom Ship is mainly formed from andesite rock and partly altered by hydrothermal activity. The island is situated on the south east end of Crater Lake and projects more than 656 ft (200 m) out from the wall of the caldera. The island is about 500 ft by 200 ft in size. 3️⃣Silver Falls State Park is the largest state park in Oregon with more than 9,000 acres (36 km2). It includes more than 24 miles (39 km) of walking trails, 14 miles (23 km) of horse trails, and a 4-mile (6.4 km) bike path. Its 8.7-mile (14.0 km) Canyon Trail/Trail of Ten Falls runs along the banks of Silver Creek; Four of the ten falls have an amphitheater-like surrounding that allows the trail to pass behind the flow of the falls. The Trail of Ten Falls passes behind the falls of South Falls, Lower South Falls, Middle North Falls, and North Falls. South Falls is the start of Trail of Ten Falls and is 177 feet (54 m) in height. It is 0.8 mile to the next fall, Lower South Falls at 93 feet (28 m) in height. 2.1 miles to Lower North Falls at 30 feet (9.1 m) in height. Double Falls (the highest waterfall in the park) is 2.1 miles and a height of 178 feet (54 m). Drake Falls is 2.3 miles on down the trail and is 27 feet (8.2 m) in height. 106 feet (32 m) in height Middle North Falls is 2.3 miles on down the trail. Winter Falls is 2.7 miles and is 134 feet (41 m) in height. Twin Falls is 3.0 miles and 31 feet (9.4 m) in height. North Falls is 3.9 miles and 136 feet (41 m). Upper North Falls is 4.6 and 65 feet (20 m). Other Falls include: Crag Falls, Elbow Falls, Canyon Falls, Frenchie Falls, Lisp Falls, Sunlight Falls, and Trickle Falls. The park has been used as a filming location in several movies. The 1981 horror film Just Before Dawn was shot entirely on location in the park; it also served as a filming location for William Friedkin's thriller The Hunted (2003), and the blockbuster film Twilight (2008). 4️⃣Haystack Rock is one of the most identifiable geological formations of Oregon. Haystack Rock is part of the Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site. There are at least six other geographic features in Oregon named Haystack Rock, including two others along the Oregon Coast. The tallest and best known Haystack Rock due to its proximity to Portland is located off Pacific City and near Cape Kiwanda. It stands 327 feet (100 m) above the sea and is the fourth tallest sea stack or off-shore monolith in the world. Haystack Rock (235-foot (72-meter)) in Cannon Beach is accompanied by several smaller rocks known as The Needles. The monolithic rock is accessible by foot at low tide. The other Oregon coastal Haystack Rock stands 105 feet (32 m) above sea level in Coos County near Bandon. 5️⃣Mount Hood Skibowl is a recreation area on Mount Hood located near Government Camp, Oregon. It is the largest night ski area in the United States, and the total skiable area encompasses an area of 960 acres (388 ha) (about two thirds of this is lit). The resort is the closest ski venue to Portland, with an elevation of 3,600 feet (1,097 m) at the lodge, rising to just over 5,000 feet (1,524 m) at the summit. The average snowfall at the area is 300 inches (762 cm), with an average consolidated base around 100 inches (254 cm) and 65 marked trails. The area is also popular for summer recreation with mountain biking. An adventure park in the area includes alpine slides, zip-line, and bungee jumping. As well as other outdoor activities. 6️⃣Smith Rock State Park! Its sheer cliffs of tuff and basalt are ideal for rock climbing of all difficulty levels and is generally considered the birthplace of modern American sport climbing. It is host to cutting-edge climbing routes and popular for sport climbing, traditional climbing, multi-pitch climbing, and bouldering. Smith Rock itself is a 3,200-foot (980 m)-high ridge (above sea level) with a sheer cliff-face overlooking a bend in the Crooked River (elev. 2600 ft), making the cliffs about 600 feet high. The park has many miles of developed trails for hiking. The trails have viewpoints along the routes that overlook the Crooked River and nearby rock formations. The two main trails are the Summit Trail and Misery Ridge. The soil and native vegetation on the steep hillsides in the park are very sensitive to damage, so visitors are required to stay on established trails. Smith Rock State Park has more than 1,800 rock climbing routes. The park is broken up into walls and have names commonly used by the climbing community. The park contains the first U.S. climb rated 5.14 (8b+). 7️⃣Heceta Head Light is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast 13 miles (21 km) north of Florence, and 13 miles (21 km) south of Yachats. The Lighthouse is 205 feet (62 m) up the headland. Built in 1894, the 56-foot (17 m) lighthouse shines a beam visible for 21 miles (34 km) out to sea, making it the strongest light on the Oregon Coast. The light is maintained by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD), while the assistant lighthouse keepers' house, operated as a bed-and-breakfast inn, is maintained by the U.S. Forest Service. 8️⃣Oregon Garden is an 80-acre (32 ha) botanical garden and tourist attraction in Silverton, Oregon. The Oregon Garden includes more than twenty specialty gardens and features such as the Bosque, Children's Garden, Conifer Garden (one of the largest collections of dwarf and miniature conifers in the United States), Honor Garden, Hughes Water Garden, Jackson & Perkins Rose Garden, Lewis & Clark Garden, Northwest Garden, Pet Friendly Garden, and Sensory Garden. The water garden is a maze-like area with numerous paths and bridges. In 2002, the water garden won an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for environmental friendliness. Using treated wastewater from the city, the garden is one of only a few installations in the United States that reuses wastewater for a water feature. 9️⃣Oregon Holocaust Memorial is an outdoor memorial dedicated to victims of the Holocaust. Located in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park. The idea for a memorial was proposed in 1994 by Alice Kern and a local group of Holocaust survivors that met through the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center. The memorial features a stone bench with wrought iron gating around a cobblestone circle. Scattered bronzes of common objects such as shoes, glasses, and a suitcase represent items left behind by those persecuted during the Holocaust. A cobblestone walkway, with granite bars simulating railroad tracks, leads to a wall containing a history of the Holocaust as well as quotes from survivors. Engraved on the back of the wall are the names of people who died in the camps, as well as the names of their surviving relatives in Oregon and Southwest Washington. 🔟Columbia River Maritime Museum is the official state maritime museum for Oregon and is located about ten miles (16 km) from the mouth of the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon. The Columbia River Maritime Museum collects and exhibits maritime artifacts from the Columbia River and the Pacific Northwest. The Museum's all-donation collection exceeds 30,000 objects, 20,000 photographs, and a 10,000-volume research library. Maritime collections include models, full-size watercraft, paintings, figureheads, and all manner of gear, wardrobe, weapons, instruments employed in commercial, private and military maritime operations. An orientation film, The Great River of the West, shows the bar pilots working the dangerous Columbia River Bar. Their collection also included: The bridge of the WWII era Destroyer USS Knapp, 44-foot U.S. Coast Guard motor lifeboat 44300, P36-foot US Coast Guard motor lifeboat, 32-foot troller Darle, Two gillnetter vessels, The Lightship Columbia, WLV-604, The Bar Pilot boat, Peacock, and Third order Fresnel Lens. 1️⃣1️⃣Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is an aviation museum which displays a number of military and civilian aircraft and spacecraft. The museum is located in McMinnville, Oregon. The space flight center is in a building the same size as the aviation center. Visitors can operate flight simulators for landing the space shuttle as well as for docking a Gemini capsule and performing a moon landing of the Lunar Excursion Module. Exhibits included: 🛩Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 🛩de Havilland DH.100 Vampire Mk.52, 🛩Douglas A-1 Skyraider, 🛩Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, 🛩Douglas C-47, 🛩Douglas DC-3A, 🛩Foton-6 Space Capsule, 🛩Grumman TF-9J Cougar, 🛩Hughes H-4 Hercules (This is the famous Spruce Goose, a flying boat with the largest wingspan of any aircraft ever built.), 🛩North American T-39 Sabreliner, 🛩Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird, 🛩Martin Titan II SLV Space Launch Vehicle, 🛩Titan-II ICBMs produced. (The exhibit includes the Titan II launch control center equipment used in California for launching the Titan 23G.), 🛩Titan IV, 🛩McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle, 🛩McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, 🛩Mercury Space Capsule, 🛩Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10/U-4 610937, 🛩Messerschmitt 262 (Reproduction by Legend Flyers), 🛩Mikoyan Guryevich MiG-17A "Fresco" (true Russian version), 🛩Mikoyan Guryevich MiG-21MF "Fishbed-J", 🛩Mikoyan MiG-29 "Fulcrum-A", 🛩NASA X-38 V-131R, and 🛩Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XVI. Also on display are many different aircraft engines, helicopters, reflecting Evergreen Aviation's original helicopter fleet. 1️⃣2️⃣High Desert Museum sits on 135 acres (0.55 km2) of pine covered forest land in Central Oregon. The museum has in excess of 18,500 artifacts in its collections. Historical artifacts include those of Native American origin and post Euro-American settlement of the region. The museum's indoor and outdoor exhibits of Native American, pioneer, and animal life are presented on a massive scale. A visitor can actually walk through an early 1860s town complete with blacksmith shop, Chinese mercantile, and stage coach stop. Exhibits include a Forest Service fire truck, a stage coach, and a number of Native American history displays. Outside the museum building a quarter-mile trail follows a forest stream lined with aspens and ponderosa pines. Along the way visitors can stop at a number of exhibits and animal habitats. There is a total of 32,000 square feet (3,000 m2) of outdoor exhibits and animal habitats. There is also a Native American encampment, a start-of-the-20th-century sawmill, logging equipment, homesteaders cabin, and a forestry pavilion. 1️⃣3️⃣Favell Museum! A visit to the Favell Museum is a must for anyone who loves Native American artifacts, and Western art. Over 100,000 artifacts, illustrating the lives of indigenous tribes from North and South America are on display, with the primary focus on Native American tribes. Collections dating from 12,000 years ago include thousands of arrowheads, obsidian knives, spear points, primitive ancient stone tools, native clothing, intricate bead work, basketry, pottery and more. The museum is home to an incredible fire opal arrowhead, found in the Black Rock Desert in 1910. 1️⃣4️⃣Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum is a collection of eleven original rescued historic homestead era (early 1900s) buildings, including a church, school, houses, homestead cabins, and other buildings assembled in a village setting. The structures were moved to the museum site from various locations around the Fort Rock Valley. Most of the buildings contain historic items used by local homesteaders including furniture, dishes, household products, and tools. 🍁The Webster Cabin was originally located about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Fort Rock. This cabin was used as a home until 1986. 🍁The Sunset School is the only remaining pioneer schoolhouse of twenty built in the Fort Rock Valley. 🍁The Fred Stratton Home is the childhood home of Frank Stratton one of the museum's founders. 🍁St. Roses Catholic Church was the only church built in the Fort Rock Valley during the homestead years. 🍁The Belletable House is believed to be the largest pioneer home built in the valley. 🍁The Bodenheimer House was one of a few two story houses in the valley. It was built by a German carpenter. 🍁The Menkenmair Cabin is the only remaining log cabin in the valley. 🍁Dr. Thom's Office: Dr. James W. Thom was the valley's only doctor during the homestead period. 🍁The Land Office is a log structure typical of the homestead period. 🍁Fort Rock General Store had to go though an extensive restoring. But it's back to original as much as photos would allow. It now has era products on the inside. The museum is open on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from mid-May through the end of September. 1️⃣5️⃣Wildlife Safari is a safari park in Winston, Oregon. More than 600 animals are given free rein on the grasslands, and are accessible for viewing by driving on a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) road. Visitors can stop to view the animals and take pictures anywhere except in the bear cage. Besides both black and brown bears, other animals in "protected contact" include tigers, lions, and cheetahs. About 90 of the park's animals are in the Safari Village, which includes a petting zoo, restrooms, a restaurant, a playground, and gift shop. 1️⃣6️⃣Oregon Coast Aquarium is an aquarium in Newport, Oregon. The facility sits on 23 acres (9.3 ha) along Yaquina Bay near the Pacific Ocean. The Aquarium's collection focuses on the flora and fauna native to the Oregon Coast. Exhibits in the main building include four permanent displays: Sandy Shores, Rocky Shores, Coastal Waters, and a changing exhibit area. The first features fish and invertebrates that live either close to shore or in bays such as Yaquina Bay. Progressing, the aquarium displays feature animals further offshore ending in a kelp forest and sea jelly exhibit. Flanking the permanent displays are the changing exhibits. There are also exhibits focusing on small marine life in the area including jellyfish, and a tidepool exhibit in which visitors may touch sea stars and sea anemones. The largest exhibit is "Passages of the Deep", it features walk-through acrylic tubes surrounded by deep water marine animals such as sharks, rays, and rockfish. Passages of the Deep has three sections. Orford Reef contains mostly rockfish and other smaller Pacific-Northwest fish. Halibut Flats contains halibut, ling cod, a small ray, and other large fish, and includes a mock sunken ship. Open Sea is last section in the tunnel, and holds many species of sharks including seven gill sharks, as well as rays, mackerel, anchovies and salmon. The Aquarium has the largest outdoor Seabird Aviary in North America, which is home to tufted and horned puffins, black oystercatchers, common murres, rhinoceros auklets and pigeon guillemots. The Aquarium also exhibits two turkey vultures in a separate outdoor area. Outdoor exhibits also showcase marine mammal species native to the Oregon Coast, including sea otters, harbor seals and California sea lions. There is even a coastal cave that houses a giant Pacific octopus. The rocks in the outdoor exhibit are artificial rocks constructed of gunite. The Aquarium is also home to a nature trail that overlooks the Yaquina Bay estuary and features native plants and free-roaming wildlife. 1️⃣7️⃣Oregon Museum of Science and Industry contains three auditoriums, including a large-screen theatre, planetarium, and exhibition halls with a variety of hands-on permanent exhibits focused on natural sciences, industry, and technology. OMSI has five different specialized exhibit halls, a planetarium, and a submarine exhibit. 🍂USS Blueback: This submarine appeared in the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October before being towed to its present location, a pier adjacent to the museum on the Willamette River. The propeller is a National Submarine Memorial located outside of the main museum area. The submarine is available for daily guided tours and sleep over. 🍂The Featured Exhibit Hall is used for temporary exhibits created by OMSI or brought in from museums around the world. 🍂The Turbine Hall is named for the large retired steam turbine from its days as a PGE power plant. It features exhibits about engineering, physics, chemistry, and space travel. The Turbine Hall has two floors. On the main floor are the large exhibits and enrichment areas. On the mezzanine there are smaller exhibits. 🍂The Innovation Station includes hands-on exhibits related to technology and invention. Laboratories for physics, chemistry, technology, and laser holography are connected to the Turbine Hall. 🍂The Chemistry Lab is the first hands-on wet chemistry laboratory in the nation. There are six stations that allow visitors to learn about chemical interactions by participating in experiments that share a common theme. 🍂Physics Lab exhibits include a Van de Graaff generator (a static electricity generator), motion detectors, electrical circuits, Morse code, magnets, computers that simulate basic properties of physics, and musical instruments. 🍂The Laser/Holography Lab, which is open for approximately one hour every day, presents 30-minute demonstrations constructing a hologram. 🍂The Vernier Technology Lab investigates the impact of technology on society. 🍂The Life Sciences Hall, on the second floor of the museum, offers exhibits about biology. One of the features of this exhibit is the Age Machine, a computer program that allows visitors to capture, and then "age" a picture of themselves. 🍂The Life Sciences Laboratory houses a wide variety of live animals, such as rats, walking sticks, chameleons, Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, other mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insects. 🍂The Earth Science Hall, located on the second floor, features geology-oriented exhibits and two specialized laboratories. 🍂The Animal Secrets exhibit encourages children and parents to explore the hidden habitats and lives of forest animals. 🍂The Discovery Laboratory offers rotating experiments and activities such as exploring Flubber or ice cube painting. 🍂Planetarium: Computer-aided astronomy and laser light shows are performed daily in the Harry C. Kendall. Planetarium. 🍂OMSI contains both an ultra-large-screen theater and a large auditorium with a stage where annual events such as science fairs occur. Science fairs that take place in the main auditorium include OHSU's Brain Awareness, Safety Safari, and the Reptile and Amphibian Show. OMSI operates the largest science museum outreach program in the country. 1️⃣8️⃣Sea Lion Caves are a connected system of sea caves and caverns open to the Pacific Ocean in Florence, Oregon. Human access to the caves is through a gift shop building. The cave system is at sea level and the ocean continually washes into the main cavern which has a floor area of about 2 acres (0.81 ha) and a vaulted rock dome about 125 feet (38 m) high. Southward from the main chamber, a low passage runs 1,000 feet (300 m) to a sea level opening. This corridor is flooded at high tide and free of water at low tide. The western entrance is a short, high passage through which the ocean washes at all tide levels. At the north, a third entrance is about 50 feet (15 m) above the ocean which serves as an elevated observation area where the entire cave system and its wildlife are visible. The sea level portion of this cave and the sea cliff rocks just outside the cave have become, over the centuries, the only known mainland rookery and hauling area (wintering home) of the Steller's sea lion and—to a lesser extent—the California sea lion. The high vault is a natural resting place for sea birds. Many birds make their home at or near the Sea Lion Caves such as the pigeon guillemot, Brandt's cormorant, western, herring, and California gulls, tufted puffins, and the occasional hawk or bald eagle. Sea Lion Caves is one of the great sea grottos of the world, comparable in size and coloration to the famed Blue Grotto in the Mediterranean. The whale watching deck, located below the gift shop, permits a seaward view of approximately 20 miles (32 km). The deck is at an elevation of 300 feet (91 m), making it a popular whale watching post. Typically, orcas are seen migrating once a year past the Sea Lion Caves, whereas the grey whale is seen anywhere from a few months to all year long. Small groups sometimes end their migration in the immediate vicinity, feeding very close to the shore. 1️⃣9️⃣Fort Clatsop was the last encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805-1806, before their return trip east to St. Louis. The site is now protected as part of the Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks, and is formerly known as Fort Clatsop National Memorial. The original Fort Clatsop decayed in the wet climate of the region but was reconstructed for the sesquicentennial in 1955 from sketches in the journals of William Clark. The replica lasted for fifty years, but was severely damaged by fire in early October 2005, weeks before Fort Clatsop's bicentennial. A new replica, more rustic and rough-hewn, was built by about 700 volunteers in 2006; it opened with a dedication ceremony that took place on December 9. The site is currently operated by the National Park Service. The replica of the fort isn't in the exact location of the original, as no remains of the original fort have been found. However, it is thought to be quite close to the exact location. 2️⃣0️⃣Oregon Vortex is a roadside attraction located in Gold Hill, Oregon. It consists of a number of interesting effects, which are gravity hill optical illusions, but which the attraction's proprietors propose are the result of paranormal properties of the area. A place where the unexplainable happens. 2️⃣1️⃣West Coast Game Park Safari is a walk-through safari park in Bandon, Oregon. The park is a petting zoo and captive breeding program, including endangered species such as the snow leopard. They sell and loan big cats to other parks and zoos. 2️⃣2️⃣Mount Hood Railroad (train ride)! The line starts out parallel to the Hood River for the first three miles (4.8 km) until it reaches a switchback. Switchbacks used to be common, but this is now only one of five remaining railroad switchbacks in use in the United States. After the trains reverse direction at the switchback, the line continues south through the communities of Pine Grove, Odell, and Dee before reaching the southern end of the line at Parkdale. The total length of the line is approximately 22 miles. The railroad offers four-hour scenic tours through the Hood River Valley and narrated historic excursion train tours, as well as special events. There are views of Mount Hood and Mount Adams along with the surrounding orchards and farmland of the Hood River Valley. So all aboard!

It's woman's day! But isn't that like every day for us women! Chocolate peanut clusters, my hubby usually gets me some of those around Christmas time. Yummy! Proofreading, that's why I have spell check. Although, sometimes it should be called change the word check. LOL! To late! We've already plugged in. I'll have to try tartar sauce on some other things, but I still have to have it for my fish. Not to much, just a little. Oregon is a definite must see, with our very own personal tour guide my twin, Monika (CorgiMom). Yay!

Places 17 thur 22 were recommended. Any question should direct to our personal tour guide. And I have one. Is Oregon Museum of Science and Industry insured? You know, just in case I blow up their Chemistry Lab.😂

Nothing wrong with fresh fruit on your cereal. It sure beats the fruit (or what they call fruit) already in the box of cereal.🤢

Sending warm hugs!🐶🐶💕❄️🌨❄️💕