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06/04/2026

Going to tempt fate and say we are going to vend at:
Saturday 6/6 9-1 Newport Farmers Market
Sunday 6/7 9-2 Yachats Farmers Market
Tuesday 6/9 Florence Farmers Market 3-6
See you there.

05/21/2026

Last markets until June 9TH.
Saturday 5/23 9-1 Newport Farmers Market
Sunday 5/24 9-2 Yachats Farmers Market.
Of course, always check postings as we all know what God does when your plans don't jibe with his.

05/21/2026

05/14/2026

Here we go again. We will be:
Saturday 6/16 Newport Farmers Market 9-1
Sunday 6/17 Yachats Farmers Market 9-1
Tuesday 6/19 Florence Farmers Market 3-6
That is all

04/29/2026

My family was struck with a devistating blow today.
Please call or text 988 if you ever feel the need to talk to someone about su***de, your depression, feeling anxiety or just sadness. This has hit our family hard. This person was in their 40's. Young, vibrant and full of life.
SU***DE HOT LINE: CALL OR TEXT 988
Love to one and all. You have a voice, please DON'T be afraid. There are people who can help

04/24/2026

I still would have watched it named, "Planet Moron"

The filmmakers had to replace the original title of this movie, "Planet Moron," when they heard about the British science fiction spoof "Morons from Outer Space" (1985). Mel Brooks and co-writers Ronny Graham and Thomas Meehan went through all of the letters of the alphabet to search for a word to add to "Space," which Thomas Meehan suggested. Mel Brooks spilled a drink and shouted, "Balls!" and Ronnie Graham said, "Spaceballs!" which became the movie's new and final title, and they came up with the idea that the villains, the Spaceballs, would wear ball-shaped helmets. Ironically, in "Morons from Outer Space," the name of the game of sport that the morons from outer space played in their spaceship was "Spaceball."

The Millennium Falcon from the "Star Wars" saga makes a cameo appearance in this movie. Take a close look at the exterior shot of the Space Diner, and it can be spotted parked there among the other space vehicles. George Lucas got a chance to read the screenplay before production began, and loved it so much that he decided to have his special effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, help make this movie.

In a 2013 television interview (shortly before receiving the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award), Brooks stated that he personally obtained Lucas' full permission to parody any and all things "Star Wars"-related but, on one condition, that absolutely no merchandise of any kind be produced from this movie. This is the reason why all Yogurt and the D***s do is merchandising (it is also why none of the merchandise seen in this movie was ever mass produced or publicly sold in any way). According to Brooks, Lucas loved this movie, and wrote him a letter after its premiere, saying he thought he was going to bust something from laughing so hard. Lucas also told Brooks had he not chosen to parody "Star Wars," this movie would have succeeded as a great adventure movie. Brooks said he was extremely flattered by Lucas's compliments and support.

John Hurt claimed that Mel Brooks talked him into self-parodying his role from "Alien" (1979) by making it sound like it would be a brief walk-on cameo. Only when Hurt came to the set did he realize that the entire scene was an elaborate spoof of the chestburster scene from "Alien". Hurt figured that he ought to have asked for a salary. Hurt previously cameoed in another Brooks comedy, "History of the World: Part I" (1980), in which he played Jesus Christ (as well as starring in the 1979 Brooks-produced "The Elephant Man"). (

04/14/2026

This guy was assisted by that alien hiding in the photo I tell ya!

On November 23, 1942, the SS Benlomond was moving alone through the South Atlantic, 750 miles off the coast of Brazil, carrying cargo from Cape Town toward Surinam.

The ship was armed but slow. The German submarine U-172 found it without difficulty, fired two torpedoes, and sank it in under two minutes. Of the fifty-five men aboard, one survived.

P**n Lim was twenty-four years old, born on Hainan Island in southern China, and working as the ship’s second mess steward.

As the Benlomond went down, he grabbed a life jacket and jumped. He swam for roughly two hours before finding an eight-foot square wooden raft floating in the debris field.

He climbed on and took stock of what he had: tins of hardtack biscuits, ten cans of pemmican, chocolate, evaporated milk, ten gallons of water, signal flares, a tarpaulin, rope, and a flashlight. He calculated the supplies would last approximately fifty days.

He made them last longer, then kept going after they were gone. He pulled a spring from the flashlight and bent it into a fishhook. Small fish became bait for larger ones.

He pried nails from the raft’s wood to make heavier hooks for bigger prey. He gutted his catches with a knife fashioned from a biscuit tin and hung the flesh out to dry in strips.

When a storm destroyed his stored food and freshwater supply, he began catching seabirds, wringing their necks and drinking the blood immediately to rehydrate.

Rainwater was collected in canvas stripped from the tarpaulin.

Because he was not a strong swimmer, he tied a rope from the raft around his wrist before entering the water to wash or retrieve anything.

Sharks circled him throughout. When one came too close, he beat it back with the empty water jug. Several ships and at least one American patrol aircraft spotted him during those months.

None stopped. He was Asian, and some crews likely took him for a drifting Japanese sailor or feared a German decoy trap. He stopped counting days on a knotted rope and began counting full moons instead.

On April 5, 1943, three Brazilian fishermen saw a gaunt figure on a raft near the coast and pulled him aboard. He had been at sea for 133 days. He walked off the raft unassisted.

03/20/2026

Shout out to "The Corndog Company" currently on the Boardwalk here in Florence. Been a while since I had a Pronto pup!

03/15/2026

"This helps us maintain accuracy." https://buff.ly/qEWLcI1

02/19/2026

Who Knew?

"It's a stunning revelation." https://buff.ly/m67SCiB