Oregon City, Oregon - Week 42 - October 21 - October 27, 2019

More beautiful fall colors this week - we are thinking that this Fall may be the best colors we've ever seen.  But, then, perhaps in the past we have been too busy with work to have the time to notice leaf
colors.











Dad (with a little help from Jude) started working on the banana trees which haven't been  cared for for two years.









I spent a lot of time this week blowing leaves - the Copper Beech is almost finished dropping its leaves but the walnut and maples just are beginning.  We're doing a big push to get the weeds out of the greenhouses.  Of course, we can work on them anytime because the area is covered, but we really want to be able to burn them while burn Season lasts...but wait, Burn Season goes until December 15th, so there really shouldn't be such a hurry.





Warren helped us pick up piles of weeds.



We harvested a bunch of figs.  The were a lot this year - more fell on than ground that we used.



On Tuesday we went to Kathy Rhodes' home to help her with her Family History.  As a treat, she took us to Mike's Drive In





I've been going to Seattle every Thursday with Vannessah Morss.  I go along to provide moral support, lively conversation, and assistance with her very very cold caps which help her retain her hair even though she  has chemo every week.  There are four caps which have been chilling for 24 hours in a cooler filled with pelleted dry ice.  Each one is used for only 30 minutes.  They are so cold that Vannessah kinda goes into a cold induced sleep survival mode.  I put them on for her and "rouse" every 30 minutes to replace the cap.  At the end of two hours I say, "okay, we're done", and she really isn't aware that the time has passed.



This week was the next to the last week of trout season on the Clackamas.  We started out at the food cart in Estacada and then went to the confluence of the Collawash and Clackamas Rivers, like we did last week, but fished on the Collawash side.  From our perspective, it was a perfect place to fish, and I am sure there were fish there, but not even one tickled my line.  But it was a beautiful day and a beautiful place to sit for a couple of hours...the rocks were quite slippery when I 'free soloed" down to the waters edge.









Abby's birthday is on this coming Monday the 28th, but her party was held Saturday afternoon.  All of her friends came (all of her cousins, that is).  We had pizza, another of Warrens creative cakes - a unicorn cake, and then a unicorn pinata (which I think really is a horse with a golden cone on its forehead....but I didn't tell Abby that....  Paul says it was okay because the golden hooves matched the horn....













The next picture Dad got off the internet, but I like it anyway - even though we didn't take the photo ourselves from an airplane.

L to R - St Helens, Ranier, Adams.  Top to Bottom - Hood, Jefferson.