Week 10, Oregon City, Oregon - March 7 to March 13, 2022

This was a good spring week - sun - rain - clouds - chilly.  Skunk cabbage plants are just starting to emerge in the really wet places.

The Osmaronia cerasiformis is just about finished blooming.  I don't see any seeds in the old blossoms.

I hadn't noticed this BIG Osmaronia cerasiforis before - which seems strange...maybe because it is so big.  But there it was on first slope and the sun shine made the blossoms really stand out.  Kind of looks like The Tree of Life.

Had two burn piles this week - one at Malcolm's Bridge

The other on in Sector 5

I used the new trailer to pull of three loads of branches I cut last year and just left in a pile.  Worked perfectly - I cut each one to be 55 inches long which will allow three cuts each of about 18 inches.

I discovered two BIG trees of Western Hemlock.  Can't believe it - I didn't know they were there, happily growing on the ridge in Sector 5   

Our Ward activity for the month was Pi Day on 3.12.  We had many delicious pies of all sorts for dinner - pizza, shepherds, chili pie, and fruit pies and cream pies - I made a lemon meringue pie.  I had the kids from Activity Days come and help set up the tables.  I think they had fun!

Camille turns 18 this week - hard to believe....but true.  We sang to her Sunday night.

I finally finished my drawing of the bunch of garlic.  I had to do it twice to be a little satisfied.

Oregon State was in a meet in Denver with Nebraska, Arkansas and U of Denver.  Sadly we came in second...loosing by 0.1 point to Arkansas.  Next week is the PAC 12 championship meet in Utah...which is a bit annoying.  The Championships are supposed to be in "neutral" territory......yeah - like the meet is in West Lake Utah...just a stone's throw from U of Utah.