Week 40 - Oregon City Oregon - October 3-9, 2022

This has been an uneventful week - which is kind of nice.

On Saturday, at the church, we had a Ward Emergency Preparedness Activity.  We were asked to do a display on "Emergency Hacks".                                                                                    

We did these sort of things

Milk jug lantern                                                                                                                            Use AAA batteries instead of AA batteries in your flashlight.                                                      Use two clay garden pots to make a heater with 2 candles as a heat source                              Make candles from Crisco, vegetable oil, and olive 

                                                                                                

How to make and use wicks

We showed other things, but the above were new to us.  There were about 40 people at the event.  Hardly enough to make the effort worthwhile, but you can't have everything.

On Friday I went with Katharine Wilson and a bunch of others to a production by the Boing and Damascus Theater Company.  It was actually pretty good.

I did a lot of "last of the season spraying" in the woods - looking for ivy and holly and blackberries, and stinging nettles.  I have one more batch to do.  I'm not sure if my efforts are effective because it is so late in the season, but leaves are green and the weather is warm.  I'm looking forward to spring to see the results of all my spraying.

I am diligently bringing up buckets of trash from the dump in Log Creek - between West slope and far West Slope.  Dad even fund some treasures.

I fill up buckets with glass and metal bits and then put into the trash bins.

Abby ate dinner with us - the trout from alder flat.  Se said she actually liked it.