Week 12 - Oregon City - March 17 - March 23, 2025

We celebrated Camille's 21st birthday by going to the Hive for breakfast.    

The last gymnastics meet of the season...held at OSU.   The exciting thing was that Holland was chosen to be one of the girls who presented flowers to the winners of the different events.  Holland got to give flowers to Jade three times!!!

I took a bunch of photos in the woods proving that spring is coming - or already hear.

A new cedar seedling1

The maples on either side of the driveway flowering.

The Big Leaf Maple trees, n the woods, flowering.

Jack often goes into the woods with me.

Dad and I went to Dough Valley to have ramen soup and something else which I can not remember the name, for lunch.

 Week 11 - Oregon City - March 10 - March 16. 2025

Basically on three things of interest happened this week.                                                                  

1- my guitar concert at CCC                                                                                                               

2 - the gymnastic meet at OSU                                                                                                          

3 - birthday celebrations for Malcolm, Shelby, and Eric                                                                    

4 - misc. cat photos

The guitar concert was on March 10th  We combined with three students from PSU.  Two are music education majors and one was a second year Master student in Guitar Performance.  They were really good and really nice guys.  Their playing enhanced the sound.  They are planning to join us in our spring concert....and maybe a couple of guitars from Reed College.

WE went to Corvallis for a gymnastics meet - it was Senior Night and OSU had 9 graduating seniors to honor.  The meet was against....uhh don't remember...but we won.

We ate ahead of time

Warren's friend, Robert, had t-shirs made with Jade's image on it and the word Legendcarey.  He gave us tow t-shirts....or maybe Warren bought two shirts.

I took a bizillion photos in an attempt to get good ones of Jade.  Here are the best ones.

Vault -

Bars -

          

Beam-                                                                                                                                             

                                                                                        

And...a 10 on the Floor-                                                                                                                 

                                                                                               

                                                                                               

                                                  

                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                       

                                                  

We will surely miss Jade Carey

               

                             
                                                                                                                        

March birthdays.     Malcolm 37, Shelby 21, and Eric  11.                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                                

       

                  

                                                                                                                   

                                                                         

 Week 10 - Oregon City - March 3 - March 9, 2025

Woods and Cats - AGAIN!

Dad took the weed whacker and rimmed all of the dried tall plants along the edger of the woods - it's like trimming a guys hair over the ears.  Only Dad and I notice this - but we love it.

Here are my tools for scrapping of bed straw - a nasty invasive weed.

On Friday when Jude had or school, he came and helped split wood.  It was so nice for us.

A big rain and wind storm blew off a big branch from a Doug Fir in Sector 5.   I pulled up the big branches for fire wood and left the smaller stuff.  This is what was left to clean up.

Warren and his kids came over and picked up branches and Warren used the shears to cut them up into more manageable pieces.

I was working near Salmonberry gulch (between Sector 4 and Sector 5) when I discovered a Sitka Spruce seedling!!!!  ;I was so excited until I realized that there are no spruce trees in the woods that could have shed any seeds.....and finally I remembered that I had planted this one which I'd gotten from the Tree Fair.  Oh well....almost had a natural native.

Back in the BIG wind storm in 2020 or 2021 or 2022 (honestly, I don't remember), a big maple branch fell off a bigger maple tree.  even since the event, I have agonized about the branch.  This was the week...Dad cut it up into 44-inch lengths and I pulled it up to the splitter.

In a week or so the split pieces will be in the basement.

 Week 9 -  Oregon City, February 24 - March 2, 2025

This week I pretty much only have photos of cats and of y activities in the woods.

Cats in the house

Cats in the woods.

A little cedar tree I found

Filberts in all of their catkin glory.

Our spring favorite - Osmaronia cerasaforis

Brunner daffodils in Sector 2.

Scott's Massage Parlor.