Essays by Jon Remmerde


                                                                                                                       

4 Wheel Drive on the Meadow

All Things Loud and Electrical
An Afternoon Class in the Meadow
Amanda and Juniper Control Their Education
Amanda's Cribs
Ants and Grasshoppers


The Backhoe at Whitney  
The Blond Marmot  

Bluebird Houses 
Bottle Deposit
Breakfast in Moonlight   
Breaststroke, Backstroke, Place and Finish  
Bringing Drinking Water Home  
Broomsticks
Browsing Autumn  
Building Winter Compost           
Bullfight

 


 

Carving Black Walnut  
Classes at the Kitchen Table   
Class at Castle Rock   
Cranes in Whitney Valley  
The Coldest Place in Oregon
A Conspiracy against Authority  
Cougars at Magic Sky  
Cross-Country Skiing in Moonlight  
Cutting Firewood for a Living  


 Dance of Hawk and Man  
Dangerous Animals on the Meadow
A Dark Night in a Dark Cabin
Dave, Howard, John
Dear Teacher: Don't Split Kindling  
Developing Images with Camera and Pen  
Dog Meets Porcupine
Dog's Body
Dreams of 53 Chevys  
Dried Fruit Lasts Through All Seasons  

Drifting Dreams and Far Away Train Whistles
Driving Tractor through Moments of Wonder   


Enjoying My Solar-Powered Drier


Facing South in Renewing Sunshine  
Falling to Learn Cross-Country Skiing  
Family Education  
Feathers  
Fishpond Garden in Our Back Yard  
Free as a Hummingbird  


Gardening Where Few Dare  
Getting Down to Laughter                    

Golden Summer; Gold in the River  
Gunplay at Rico's Cow Camp


Harvesting Summer  
Harvesting Wild Asparagus
Hereford Bull in Winter Mist  
Hi Yo Orangey Away!  
How Time Flies When I'm Having Fun  
How to Build A Strong Rock Wall  
How to Maintain a Mountain Meadow  
How to Motorcycle through Summer  
How to Start a Motor in Winter  
Hung Up on a Happy Family


 I Find Grace in the Middle of a Mountain Lake

I Move My Study to Sunshine  
The Insidious Development of Keyboarditis  
Invasion toward Balance   
I Rise to New Heights  
Iron Thumb, Beavers, and Me  
Irrigating with Guidance from Water  


Journey to the Lake  


Keeping Watch over Vast Winter Nights  
Killing Rattlesnakes   


The Largest Garden in Northeast Oregon   

Larry the Llama and the Other Animals  
Leiza's Long Walk through Winter  
A Long Necked Profile in Courage
Living with the Warm Glow of Kerosene Lamps  


Man of Power with Steel Spikes on His Boots  
Male Chauvinism Dies Hard in Eastern Oregon  
Math Times 4  
March, Northeast Oregon  
Mewy in Trouble   
Motorcycle on the Meadow    
A Movable Fire Comes to Rest  
Move or Stay Another Year?  
Moving Songs   
My Guitar but Our Music  


New Companionship While Waiting  
A New Reservoir Becomes Wildlife Habitat                                                         
Night Sweepers  


Once Again, I'm a Two-legged Friend  
On the Mountain Without A Fire  
Our Motley Crew Drives to Town  
Our Summer in the Sierras  


Packing to Move  
Pancakes, a Breakfast Tradition  
Picking Beans to Harvest Independence  
Place and Finish, Breaststroke, Backstroke
Please Help   
Plowing Snow in Moonlight  
Potato Chips from the Wood Cookstove  
The Pump Froze  
Purl's Sunny Approach  


Quiet as the Desert Night  


Racing Blind  
Read, Read  
Reaping Before the Storm  
Rolling along in the Rolls  
Rototilling for Breakfast  
Raising Five to Garden  
The Red Pitcher Pump at the Sink  


Serenade in a Wild Key  
Spring Harvest for a Long Winter
Spring's Earliest Flowers  
Stars above Johnson Rock  
Starting the Day with the Joyful Sound of Music                                            
Steel String Guitars and Sweet Oranges  
Summer's Work for Winter Money  
Summer Time  


Taking the Long Way Home  
Terry, Golden Belgian, Joins Our Family  
Thank you for a Winter Snow Dance  
Toytown  
The Trials and Rewards of Delivering Papers  
Tvless in a Television World  
Twice-Warmed with Firewood  
Typewriter on the Mantle  






Unspelling      








 


Walking in the Dark  
Wapiti on the Meadow  
The Warmth of Frozen Eucalyptus  
Watching the Night Descend
 
The Week before Christmas  
Welcome Winter  
When Juniper Was Three  
Working around Red-Winged's Nest  
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