Week 15 - Oregon City - April 10 - April 16, 2023

It's been a busy week but there are not a lot of photos.  Maybe it was just a "busy work" week.

Went to the chiropractor twice in an attempt to get rid of the piercing pain that enters my right shoulder.  I think there is improvement but just incase, I have two more appointments for next week.  If there is no wonderful manifestation of healing, I will just wait for "time to heal all.".

We went shopping at Red White and Blue and got Dad some newer pants.  I've got all my clothes for the cruise already folded and poised on the table in our room.....backpack at the ready!

There were two perfect days - perfect in that it was sunny and no rain.  One day I sprayed 4 or five containers of Roundup on massive clusters of bedstraw.  The second day, along with my handy Japanese curved blade, I worked on the north side of Sector V removing bedstraw.  Look how beautiful this slope is - no bedstraw can be seen.'

And, on Saturday, I found this sad, little, dead fawn....just lying along the fence line....dead.  Surprisingly nothing has tried to eat it - where are the coyotes or possums or racoon or rats?  Checked again on Sunday - no diners had arrived yet.

  

For Activity Day this time around, Travis came and taught the kids about knives - styles, use, safety, "blood circles"....everything kids want to know about knives.  It was a great success.  In general, most of the kids ended up making swords.  Abby, however, drew a mushroom on her stick and was carving away.  I got paint sticks from all the paint stores in Oregon City, enough for each kid to have two.

Jude and Ruby have plenty of room to incorporate their "blood circles".

We got a big bag of frozen apricots from Gleaners which we put in the freezer.  We decided to thaw the apricots and make jam.  I'm always surprised that 7 cups of sugan and about three pounds of fruit only makes about six pint jars of jam.

We sold the big Yamaha keyboard for $150.  The smaller one we sold for $50 the previous week.  Now I have put the knee scooter on Facebook Marketplace.

Ray's birthday is today, Sunday; he's 78....hard to believe.  We went to dinner at Redland Cafe and calculate that we have continuously spent 56 birthdays together.

Nice cakes for Dad and Ann

We all gave him a chainsaw sharpener!!!!  I can hardly wait for him to use it!