Oregon City, Oregon - Week 38- September 21 - September 27, 2020

Where to Start???  

We've begun to cut and split all of the logs and limbs that we have collected from Goodin Acres and The Manor.  It's a pain to do but - good exercise - and the wood has to be disposed of either in our furnace or in a burn pile.

Burn season in Clackamas Co. is supposed to start next week on October 1st.  We have some concern that the season may be delayed (gasp...or even canceled) because of the recent fires.

But, we are ready!!  For the past three months I have been cutting filbert trushes (tree + bush) and pulling the limbs up to the hay field.

Note the filbert trushes in the next two photos

In this photo, there are some filbert trushes to the right that need to be removed.

 

In anticipation of the burn season, I have staged a bizillion bundles of branches ready for incineration.

Home school is doing well.  The best thing about it is that when Logan leaves...he gives me a hug.

In this photo Abby and Jude are eating their sherbet that we made last week --demonstrating how a solid can dissolve in a liquid and how a liquid can change into a solid.

Jude and Abby and Ruby also learned how heat can evaporate and turn grapes into raisins.  Next week I'm going to get m&ms and peanuts and have them make their own trail mix.

Logan and Clara had an experiment  where they had to use thermometers to note how the freezing point of water is lowered when salt is added.  The best part was when frost formed on the outside of the cup.

Reading with Jude and Abby is fun....and requires no preparation.

There is a new Brunch place in OC - called The Hive Social.  It is on the corner of Washington and Seventh St.  The location is "doomed"......over the last twenty years, every business located there fails.  But Bev and Jessica - for purposes of their blog (the sisters who ate everything) decided we must go and give their menu a try.  It was really nice...It's across the street from Yvonne's, where we went for my birthday so their will be some competition between the two restaurants for the same customers.  I got a veggie bowl which was very tasty, but I should have added on  an egg.  The others got really yummy food too.

It was decided by the Deciders that we would have a Brunner Rd Festival, to make up for the fair, the Hood River Harvest Festival, Mt Angel Octoberfest......everything that was canceled because of C____19.  Our assignment was to make Doughboys, and we actually got the original recipe from Great Grandma Burk who was Jodi Ganir's grandmother.  We practiced once and realized that a change or two had to be made.  They were good, but, maybe, too dry and hard.

By the night of the big fair, the proper corrections had been made, and the doughboys were soft, thick, chewy, and more sugary.

Many good friends and more than enough really good food....

Harvest time came to The Manor on Saturday when WWHC came to pick the pumpkins.  The final count may have been close to fifty of the orange fruits.

I did a walk around the woods Sunday morning to see what I could see.

Maybe next week there will be a photo of a big burn pile!