Week 44 - Oregon City - October 28 to November3, 2024

I've been taking guitar lessons at Guitar Center since October 1st...and I'm taking a guitar class (Guitar Ensemble) at CCC which stared four weeks ago.  This keeps me super busy because the music is really hard, and I have to practice a lot.  The CCC music is especially difficult because it is way above my skill level, but with practice I can now play everything but not up to tempo.  Steven at Guitar Center wants me to play in a recital, and so we're doing a duet of What Child Is This.  I can play this Christmas music just fine except that I seem to be unable to do it without mistakes.

I worked a lot in the woods each day...when it wasn't raining....digging up blackberries, ivy, nettles and so forth.  It will be a never ending project, which when I am no longer able to do it, the woods will revert to how it was five years ago....kinda grim.

Halloween was on Thursday.  All of the grand kids cam at the same time and in the process of looking at costumes and complementing them on their creativity, I did not take any photos.  But - Malcolm and Haley brought Jamie later in the evening, and I got a great photo of him as a pumpkin.

The weather changing to be very cold and rainy had change the cats' behavior -  they stay inside most of the time.  When they come inside, we have to wipe them off with a towel.

Abby's birthday cake celebration was Sunday night - she is the magic age of 12.