Week 2- Oregon City - January 8 - January 14, 2024

This week - Paul's birthday....beginning of freezing cold weather....Jamie.....cats

Paul turned 41 this week.  We celebrated by - even though snow was threatening - going to Cheesecake Factory and ordering our favorites.  Dad and I got Honey Truffle Chicken (maybe the Truffle part is wrong), and it was delicious.

...and cupcakes Sunday night.

Really cold weather set in on Saturday and had gotten even colder by Sunday - church was canceled....ostensibly because the roads and parking lot would be snowy and icy, but in reality, the church's heating system is awful, and we would have frozen.

Ray's humming birds suffered, and he was constantly moving the feeder in and out of the house so the little sweeties would be able to drink.

Grandkids suffered because the snow wasn't deep enough.  The couldn't even make a snowman and built a snow cairn out of ice chunks instead.

A bit of snow accumulated on the deck.

The freezing weather inspired us to defrost the freezer that M&H had been using.

The pile of frozen food spent the night on the sidewalk while the frost in the freezer melted and dripped into a big pile of towels.....DONE!

The cats didn't like the cold weather or the snow.  They spent most of their time inside.

I spent a lot of time staining the new windows.

Tyler entered adult hood - or at least he got his driver's license.

Jamie was a big hit with everyone

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Bev is showing how to properly bundle a baby..