Oregon City, Oregon - Week 47 - November 16 - November 22, 2020

Another fast week - between preparing for and teaching lessons for science, playing Sudoku on my phone, cutting down filberts in the woods, I'm pretty busy - sounds like what I said last week.

Jude and Abby come four times a week for reading.  Dad takes Jude, and I have Abby.  Abby ALWAYS puts on my fuzzy oversize sweat shirt, and we start reading.  Her special talent is that she reads with total enthusiasm.  If the text says, "she whispered," then she whispers and so forth, for "shouted", "whined" .... she is fun to read to and to read with.  Here she is with the rabbit Cinnamon on her shoulder

For science we studied the living body and talked about systems, mostly.  They outlined Abby's body and proceeded to add a skeletal system, circulatory system, and digestive system.  It was fun.

The fourth graders started organisms, and we had models of a plant cell and an animal cell and compared and contrasted them using a Venn Diagram.

I worked on cutting down almost all the rest of the filberts in Sector 5.  It is hard work, you know.  And now it is cold, so I have to "gird up my loins" to get out of the door and on to the ATV.  This was a pretty big trush right at the corner where the Barstad property joins on our southern property line.

And after - with the chainsaw to show size.

Friday and Saturday were beautiful sunny days, BUT they were not "Burn Days".  But I cut and dragged branches anyway and staged them artistically around the burn pile which had been adorned with cut hydrangea stems.

We celebrated Gretchen's birthday - she'll be nine on Thanksgiving Day.

Warren gave me my birthday present - a bit belated- no problem

 

Only three more weeks until Burn Season is over.  What will I ever do then?