This week we were treated to a remarkable streak of sunny weather (after last weeks dreary rain). It was windy and cold, but sunny! The leaves were dry and swirling everywhere in the wind. The most colorful maple of all was splendid in its orangeness
Morning sunrises were vibrant without any pesky clouds
Ruby and Janie came over one day while Bev went on a field trip with Clara. They played "farmer" in the tilled garden area.
Holland played hide and seek (not really) in the pumpkin mums at her house
Dad found a good deal on tulip and hyacinth bulbs at Home Depot. Warren, Whitney and Holland came and helped him plant them around the maple trees.
We continued our quest to free greenhouses # 1 and #2 from miscellaneous weeds and the ever present multi rooted blackberry invaders. And then we burned them all! Next week our goal is to finish cleaning out between greenhouses #3 through #7....ugh.
There are still a few apple trees with apples ready for harvest. Pretty soon there will be a really hard frost which will totally ruin the fruit if they are still on the trees. Jude helped do one tree....he was actually a big help because his little body could go up the ladder and reach further into the branches that I could.
Last spring, in the weeks before I injured my foot, I was removing old fence wires that had been incorporated into the trunks of roadside trees and had grown around the wires over the years. With the dry weather and fluffy leaves, it was the perfect time to finish the job. There were just a few trees at the end of the road where, last spring, I had found thick wires stuck into the ground clear to China. Well, they are gone now. This picture shows a double strand of barbed wire which is right in the middle of the trunks of two trees. All done now! Maybe in the spring I'll try to remove some holly tree seedlings which are sprouting up along the road.
Malcolm, for some reason, has taken advantage of the great weather and built a bridge over a narrow crevasse in the woods. It is wide enough for the ATV to easily cross it.
We went fishing for the last time this season.
I stupidly forgot the worms which were excitedly anticipating the day....and so....caught nothing. I only had some old ridiculous squishy bait , which for me, has never worked. The only thing this bait did well was to stay attached to the hook. But it was a beautiful day to drive up the Clackamas.
We took this picture from the edge of the road - it is what is called the Narrows. You can reach it if you hike up river from Fish Creek or downriver from Indian Henry.
On Tuesday we went with Warren and Holland to Intel where there was a Monster Mash. It was amazing...the things a big company with lots of money can do to make their employees happy! I think the person in charge had acquired every possible Halloween Display Catalog and then ordered one of each inflatable item from each catalog. It was super cold outside that day and we had to wait about a half hour outside...and we weren't dressed for the weather. I thought adults might be dressed for the occasion - nope, only the kids. But we dressed anyway, as Beaver fans.
When Holland met up with this werewolf, she violently shivered in ....but she didn't want to leave the display.
One evening we went with WWH to the Redland cafe.
Saturday was a hike day with Jessica, Bev, Jen Isom, and Melissa (from Canby, the YW Camp director). We went on an exploratory expedition to scope out where they (Jen, the Stake YW president and Bev, the Stake YW Secretary)w ill be taking the Young Women High Adventure. The High Adventure has been changed from being its own separate activity, to the first two days of Young Women's Camp. Bev had, from her online searching, decided that a campsite at Detroit Lake would be a good place and that a nearby trail to Stahlman Point would be a a good hike. On the way to Hwy 22 which goes to Detroit Lake and beyond, we passed my favorite tree, which is undoubtedly the most perfect deciduous tree in Oregon....the house is cool looking too.
The campsites seem to be perfect. Now the only glitch might be reserving them on the first day that reservation can be made. The hike was 2+ miles up...steadily up and up and up. My foot was fine, which was definitely a good thing, but my legs were burning and my lungs were suffering.
And at the terminus was an old fire lookout with only four concrete blocks remaining which were the tower's foundation. It was a perfect place to eat our lunch/snacks, and we didn't even fall off the cliff while posing for this photo with Mt Jefferson in the background.
On the way home we stopped at Poppa Al's for hamburgers - of course.
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