Oregon City, Oregon - Week 43 - October 19- October 25, 2020

Last week was it my goal to finish removing holly and filberts from Sector 1???  Why, yes it was, and I was successful.  In Sector 1 there are NO holly trees and NO filbert trees, either.

Here's before and after photos of just one spot in the woods

There was a fallen tree over one of the trails.  I cut it into six pieces, backed the ATV up the trail, hooked up the chain, and pulled the log up to the firewood pile.

This is what happens when you are on a steep slope and you do not carefully put down the chainsaw.

 School has been good.  Ruby learned about models - Thomas the Train, for example, is a model of a real train, and a globe is a model of the earth.  We even made our own models....out of marshmallows and toothpicks, which was a bit of a challenge.  Ruby made a caterpillar and a dog and I made a T-Rex which kinda looked like a dog, with an elephant's nose, sitting up.  Luckily I had the little rubber toy as a model.

JJude and Abby learned about Systems - a system is a group of parts that work together and when one part is missing, the the system doesn't work as well.  We decided that each of our families is a system.  Since this week both Jessica and Bev were out of town and thus one piece of their system was missing., I asked if things were different with their mom gone. The answered was a resounding - YES.  One family couldn't keep the house picked up, and the other family had quarreled more.  We also worked with pattern blocks which, I think, shows that using the exact same blocks, you can make different systems.

Here is my design.

Travis came over on Saturday.  He had repaired the broken cradle for the hot tub cover and on Saturday he and Dad assembled the repaired  hot tub cover system.  Afterwards he gathered a bunch of cousins at the Manor and had an archery and a rifle clinic.  He is such a good dad and uncle.

We've had a surplus of eggs lately  - - so I've made German Babies and boysenberry fruit spread several times.

Oh - next week I will report that the holly and filberts from Sector 5 have been forcibly removed.