Week 39 - September 26 - October 2, 2022

It was nice to be home.  Spent most of the week cleaning up and recovering

I worked in the woods cleaning out the creek bed between West slope and Far West Slope.  It is pretty steep and kind of difficult.

I sawed up the left over stump of the tree that fell right by the creek.  It was pretty awful.

Warren dug up three rhododendrons and gave them to us.  I planted them in Sector 1.

I drove to alder Flat and walked down to the river.  Wanted to see how much damage the forest fire had caused.  It really wasn't supper horrible.  The trail is in very good shape.  Of course the trees are burned.  But not all of the trees.  A very few have green tops.

The four bridges have burned so you have to walk through the swampy areas.

Believe it or not...the campground area where we set up the tent was untouched by the fire.  amazing.  Here it is with Indian burial rock in the foreground.

Here's the campsite that Dolores always takes.

The area where the kids like to play - both directions.

There was a lot of tree litter on the ground.  And, by the river, the willow bushes had grown really tall and bushy.  guess there are no deer of elk eating the leaves.

The little pool and the area around the pool had been filled up a bit by sand and rocks.

I fished by the big boulder and brought home 6 eight inchers.  also let go as many - ones that were too little or who had only been slightly hooked.  It was a satisfying outing - a favorite place had not been burned to the ground and decimated.  We can go there and camp in the future.

We went to Holland's soccer game.  It is so fun to watch the four year olds - they really have very little idea of what they are doing.  but it is good exercise, and they are learning the basics of the game.

We canned all of the grape juice over the weekend.  It was a terrible grape juice season.  We only did five batchers (last year we did twenty-five) and made 24 quarts of juice.  The weather was the cause - very wet and rainy in the spring and hot and dry all summer.