Went to the Sage Center this morning in Boardman. It is an outstanding display of the history and modern techniques in agriculture, farming and dairy in this Eastern Oregon Region. As you enter there is a huge 2 story display of the entire process in taking potatoes from raw to french fries. Great interactive displays where you can drive a tractor planting corn seeds that compares your manual ability to follow the rows and plant seeds versus how they do it today with GPS. (GPS got 30,000 seeds planted versus Dave with 21,000 and Nancy with 13,000 – no comment on her ability to drive a straight line). Cow milking station I tried was interesting using the modern equipment, can’t imagine in the old days with 350 pulls to get a gallon of milk. Overall extremely interesting and educational especially how they have used the Columbia River to turn this desert land into productive farms and ranches.
It is still hot (upper 90’s) and covered with Smoke Haze so Tucker and I went for a long afternoon swim (well Tucker did – I just cooled off) in the Columbia River. For dinner went to pick up an order of Bozo Burgers (mistake) and watched a beautiful sunset.
