Oregon City, Oregon, - Week 33 - August 12-August 18, 2019

This was the week of the fair!!!!!! Pretty much the whole week was the "Week of the Fair"

But wait---first and foremost, I got my cast REMOVED and am now wearing a removable boot.



The dried, dead, disgusting skin!!



Wrapped up in an ace bandage to help reducer swelling - but turned out to not be necessary



Here is my old "faithful" boot from back in May and June.



After my first exfoliating shower.....still disgusting



And, five days later, my lovely foot is just dang cute.....in a creepy way.  I think the final photo of my foot my be taken in September after I am given the "okay" to start wearing a shoe again.

You can barely see the scar - I will be able to wear sandals again without any shame.



Now to the good stuff - --





On Monday Warren, Whitney and Dad took their horticultural entries to the fair.  Oh the agony that went into deciding which hydrangeas to take.





Tuesday - excitement to see how the Kitchen Cupboard entries fared.

Wedding Cake - First Place



Unicorn - front and back - First Place





Strange - I do not have photos of the Sand Castle or the Torte or the Rainbow Cake - my bad.

But he did well in the cake division as evidenced by  this -



Dad and I went to the fair right after I moved back into the removable boot.

Wednesday the Daily Contest was for a cake made from a recipe that originated prior to 1972 -- it had to be a really antique recipe!

Warren's entry of his Bee Sting Cake took first place!!  Just ask him how many times he had to try to make the bee stingers turn out perfectly - and how many pounds of sugar he used.  I tasted the creme filling which was yummy.



Warren is sharing his ribbon with his favorite supporter



Thursday's contest was for Anything made with Peaches and Anything made with Hazelnuts.......boring

Friday was bread day and the combined Grays and Camille, and Jenny N. had five entries.

My bread -



Dad's bread -



Camille's Pizza Bread



Whitney's Rosemary Bread



Jenny's Sourdough Bread



And - tadaaahh - Warren's Buongirno Bread, which took a second place



And, finally, Saturdays's Men's Chocolate Cake contest.

I'm sure Dad's cake tasted the best



But Warren's was the prettiest and won first place





Fair photos

Lunch of a Philly Cheese Steak



Saw a lot of people we knew - here is Jami Beech



Hawaiian Shave Ice was the best







Holland liked the Nachos the best









Uncle Banjo Billie had a somewhat annoying banjo show, but he could really play the instrument and we learned way more than we ever thought possible.



I went to Seattle again with Vannessah - I told her she needed my second pair of ears to help her listen to her doctor (the first time I dozed off during the conversation).  Vannessah is wearing her cold cap in lower right corner of photo.



Dad harvested our crop of pears - pretty meager.



Enjoying a dinner of left overs on our deck



Enjoying grandchildren



Jessica and Ryan bought a 'new to them' Toyota Highlander.





Evan gave his mission farewell talk in Church - quite possibly the very best mission talk ever given.  His Open House was in the evening.  Many friends came o wish Evan well.  There was also tons of good food to snack on - I liked Dad's cake the best.













Evan's making his email list of those who want to hear from him.




He leaves Tuesday morning - due to return on August 2, 2021

Oregon City, Oregon - Week 32 - August 5 - August 11, 2019

This is the week that Jessica and Bev went hiking in The Enchantments....and we got to be with their six children during the week.

The days started like this...breakfast.



The first day Paul brought them over to our house as he left for work.  Then we devised a better plan.  Dad went to Bev's house, and as the children arose from their beds, he'd have them dress and then send them on their bikes to our house.  Pancakes, steel cut oats, waffles, toast, eggs ...for the week.

Each day we did some sort of activity - in addition to hanging out at the house.

Monday - we went to the Canemah Community Park which is such a nice quiet park.  And Warren found us on Find My Friends, and he came too.











Tuesday - after Paul got home from work, we visited the Baker Pioneer Cabin which is near the Carver Boat Landing.  I'd know about this place for years and had wanted to make a 'reservation' to visit it and get a guided tour.  We were not disappointed and learned  a great deal of pioneer Clackamas County history.  We stated out listing to our guide's presentation in the Pioneer Church which had been moved here from its original location near the Logan School.  Then we moved to the Cabin which had been built in 1846 and was the first house in Clackamas County.  It was a great evening.  Turned out that our guide, Gary, was someone Dad had known years ago when he (Gary) had been a horticultural sales rep.



It has an interesting second floor which hangs out over the first floor which creats a covered porch.  There is an outside staircase which goes to the second floor.












There is a big outbuilding which has a mud wagon (called this because it has big wheels chich can still roll in deep mus) and a milk churn.



Even though there was a sign on the wagon saying "Do NO Climb On" our guide let the children freely clamor onto it.







Wednesday - I made a new supply of home made laundry detergent, went to ACA to turn in Logan's registration papers, and then to a kids concert at the Library Park.



There was a lot of fun music and clapping and singing.













Thursday - we went to the park In Sandy (near Joe's Donut Shop) which has a fantastic play structure.



The kids ran and jumped and climbed and crawled - Perfect.







Thursday evening our friends from Kazakhstan, The Taylors, were visiting us, and we went to the Redland Cafe for dinner.



Friday we took the kids to the Sahallie Illahee Park in West Linn which has a great slide.













Saturday -  with the help of Travis and Warren, we replaced all of the wires and supporting boards on the area over the deck.  We'll soon be getting new shade cloth to cover the area.







Sunday morning after Stake Conference we used the van to deliver Warren's five cakes to the County Fair.  I think he will take a blue ribbon on all of his entries!!







We had a great week with the six grandchildren - exhausting, yes - but a lot of fun.

Clara likes broccoli



Ruby did some creative construction with the cushions.



Barbies rule



Dad finished taking all the screws out of the old deck boards.