Oregon City, Oregon - Week 23 - June 7 to June 13, 2021

It was a good productive week working in the woods.  Magnus and Archer are now experienced and easily and expertly gathered branches, bundled them up, and towed them to the burn pile.  I could have done all the work by myself, but it would haver taken three times as long.   I really appreciate their help!!!!

In the creek bed right at the tip of Sector 4, a humongous maple limb had fallen right smack dab into the creek.  I thought it would be horribly difficult to get it out, but turned out it wasn't too difficult.  We cut it into manageable sections, and the boys roped them out.

Magnus was very proud of his mud smear on his jacket

We also worked in Salmonberry Gulch which was really difficult because of the steepness of the sides and the muddy bog.  The boys were great workers.  Here they are way down at the bottom

Burning is the most desirable job

One afternoon I said to myself, "you have to move the rounds from Mr. Majestic's broken limb."  

And now the ATV trail - and the bike trail - is clear again

I've started working in the West Sector - specifically on Water Pipe Slope

I got the burn pile started and have just been doggedly pulling sections of logs and branches downhill the the fiery pit.

One day I parked the ATV in this spot to get a photo from another direction.

The very next day a tree snag had fallen right where the ATV had been parked!!!

No problem  The chain saw and I won the battle, and that snag became a form of energy.

I showed Magnus where the Brunners had dumped a large amount of trash - mostly bottles and cans.  I had been at the spot earlyier in the winter.  But then the ice storm came, and a tree, which unfortunately had grown right on top of the pile of cans and bottles, had a very weak root system and toppled over exposing a root ball with cans and jars as decorations.

Magnus brought back two white buckets full of treasures......

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We went to Saturday Market, mostly because Magnus has such fond memories of having gone before- - -although I don't ever remember going there in the summer.  So with just two texts to notify others, we had a total of twelve cousins who wanted to go too.

The rain didn't stop Magnus from enjoying the hot tub.

This is a good photo of the the Tres Nerfs -