Oregon City, Oregon - Week 2 - January 13, 2020 to Jan 19, 2020

This week was indeed cold....and foggy and gloomy and misty.  It was hard to do anything because it was too cold.



But we did, actually do a few things.

The most exciting  event of the week was that I got my glasses - exactly six weeks after my surgery.  I am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!because now I see so much more clearly and being able to read a book and clearly see each letter in a word is next to miraculous.  I used my same frames, and while the dispensing optician was adjusting the frame a bit, he broke the frame right where the thingys that go over the ears hook onto the frame.  He apologized profusely and said I could choose a new frame, free of charge, and I would get new lenses too.  But I didn't want to wait another week and besides, I had yet another brand new frame at home (got the extra frame before we went to KAZ).  So I went home, found my tiny screwdriver and screwed the screw back in.



Dad spent most of the week lying on the bed with his foot elevated - as per physician's instructions, but by the end of the week he was pretty much up and walking and sitting at his computer.  The grandchildren liked to cuddle with him - in this photo they are watching Mouse Trap Monday



On another cold day Clara and Abby used a borrowed iPod and made a video in which Adriana (Clara) lost her shoe and Addy (Abby) helped her find it.  Reminded me when a childhood friend and I did "radio plays" using our newly acquired tape recorder.



Don't want to leave Holland out - she was helping Warren make something.



We celebrated Paul's BD last week with the big family, but on Tuesday we went to Abby's pizza with the Louthans only (and Abby)



My big clean up activity for the week took place in the sewing room.  I want to make Christmas stockings for Bev's kids and figured I'd better start now.  First thing I had to do was find the directions and whatever red, green, and white yarn I had.

I opened up the wardrobe and pulled out all the yarn and put it on the pool table.





found a petrified mouse too.





Sorted everything



Nancy Abbot came over and took all of the lycra I had (when I made stuffed snakes 30 years ago) and the skeins of yarn.  I also boxed up all the cones of yarn for machine knitting and will give them to the DI

Here are the sock supplies....and the pattern from a 1945 publication.





And I found all of the knitted squares for an Afgan which I'd made back in the early 70s.  I did them while I was working on my Masters and pretty much came home every day at noon to eat watch Perry Mason, and to knit - it was a great way to procrastinate working on my research.  Someday, I will crochet them all together.



I spent a couple of afternoons cleaning the weeds out of #5 - just two more greenhouses to do...and then the blackberries that have come up in the alley ways.



One day when the forecast called for heavy winds, I moved the truck out from under the big maple tree by the barn.  While parking the vehicle, I backed up into the evil walnut tree and $600.00 worth of damage.





We leave in three week for our journey south.  Going first to Death Valley then to visit friends in Mesa Arizona, then to Orem to go to the ROOTS Tech Convention in SLC.  So we have done a bit of research about Death Valley and have maps and so forth.  Now I need to make an itinerary.





Went to Warren's Saturday night to give him his birthday present - he will be 36 in two days!!



Copeland is still doing well!