Week 2 - Oregon City  - January 9-15, 2023

I go up to Bev's every school morning to help out - actually I only help Jude practice the piano.  Bev does a great job of having scripture study and morning prayer with her kids - even though she is often frustrated by the "chaos".

Here is an updated photo of my current work at Bottle Creek Spring.  I'm trying to get rid of the stump - probable another year's worth of work.

At some point, either I or Dad planted a small Doug Fir seedling in a pot which lived on the back porch for quite a few years.  Last spring I planted it on the edge of the hay field above Salmon Berry Gulch.  It has produced lots of cones! and is growing well. 

For Activity Day on Wednesday we talked about all kinds of safety for children.  The kids seemed to love it, and their parents reported their kids liked it too.  

Paul's birthday was this week and to celebrate, a bunch of us went to Chang's for dinner.  It is in the old Sizzler Steakhouse on McLoughlin, but  I don't remember being at this facility -everyone else said I had been.  good food and good company.

Cousin Brenden came down for the weekend - a final farewell before he goes to San Diego for a two year stint of being the Chief Operations Officer.  He was here Friday and Saturday - off and on.  It was fun but socially exhausting.  Warren supplied activities for Sloane and Holland.

Travis was the boogy man playing with the kids.

It wasn't really Sloane's birthday, but we needed an excuse for Warren to have a cake for her.

On Sunday we had dinner at Bev's and Paul got a lemon meringue pie in a cake form.