Oregon City, Oregon - Week 40 - September 28 - October 4, 2020

Last week I ended by saying that this week I would post a photo of the season's first burn pile.  Well.......as we feared, burn season was postponed until........................................  But, the pile is waiting!

But....another wonderful thing has happened instead.  The guy that I contacted to clear brush on steep slopes - Travis Jansik - finally came!!!  Here is his machine and the blade

Here he has his machine in Sector 2 which is the first place when I started clearing with the brush cutter.

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In hardly any time he was finished!!!

I have been working in the woods.  North Creek is the creek between Sector 1 and Sector 2.  It is the area where the original Brunner family threw their trash--at least bottles and cans.  When we first moved here in 1977, I'd go down into that area and pick up trash, but there was too much to even pretend that I could pick it all up.  And, even now, the trash remains.  This week I pulled out two 5-gal buckets full for the trash bin.

In the woods there is a humongous old cedar tree that fell over the creek between Sector 1 and 

Sector 4.  It must have happened eons ago.  Over time it became a platform for evil ivy vines.  The ivy is brown now because I've sprayed it, but the stems are still very thick and strong.

I started removing the "mattress" of ivy using my clippers

I cut off what I call "ivy pelts" and took them reverently to the burn pile.

We've been doing a lot of grapes - not as many as last year.  I think there might be one or two batches left to do...which would be about 12 quarts.

School has been going well.  Last week we made raisins ,and this week the kids got to make their own trail mix.

Abby and Jude made trail mix too -  Abby pretty much left out the peanuts...(I would have too).

Clara nd Logan made Slime which we learned is a non-Newtonian liquid (whatever that is)

It was General Conference weekend.  We met Sunday morning at Jessica's and watched it together.  Jessica made her famous crepes (Beverly made them too).  Following is a collage of crepe pictures.

Poor Abby didn't want to watch Conference....she wanted her own movie and tried her best to cancel Conference on the tv.

Paul and Janie were comfy

Sunday was Pumpkin Patch Day

Dad had, yet another, hernia surgery this week.  He was pretty sore the first and second day but was feeling fine by the third day.  Not to gross anyone out.....