Week 44 Oregon City Oregon - Week 44 - November 1 - November 7, 2021

Sigh - winter and the rainy season have arrived,

Burn Season ends in mid December, so I only have a month and a half to go. There are only three more filbert trees/bushes to cut down to finally clear out the slopes of those unwanted and non native trees.  

I spent nearly two days cutting down and burning this tree.  Here is a before photo

Many of the vertical trunks are six inches in diameter and they are all wound about each other.  And the upper limbs spread wide and tangle with one another.  I hate filberts!....as much as I hate ivy and blackberries, and nettles!

I have taken three loads of scrap metal to the metal recycling place.  I think I have only one more load to go.  Finally got rid of the metal fencing and gates that Malcolm has accumulated over the years.  I think I have one more load of metal that I can accumulate to take to the recycler.

I am still helping Camille with her Second Year Algebra.  We're in the middle of polynomials. k I don't remember doing any of this math when I was in high school or in college when I took College Math 101.  I actually am enjoying doing the math.  It is good brain exercise.

In Activity Days we are making paracord bracelets.  We had a "premeeting" this week to train three of the kids ahead of time.  We had Logan and Clara, and Lily Hagberg come and learn early.  Then they will be able to help to help teach the other kids.  This was Kyna's idea.  She said her son Jaxon had a great time learning how to do it.  I think the idea of them bring useful in a survival situation is kinda silly. If you take apart miner in an emergency situation, there will be only three and a half feet of cord to use - not really enough to do anything useful.  Butttttt - the kids are having fun and learning how to make things and follow directions, and so forth.  At home I taught Ruby and Jude and Abby how to make them too.