Week 21 - Oregon City, May 25 - May 31, 2026

Monday was Memorial Day.  Everone wanted to go on a bike ride at Champoeg Park ane "relive" the fu we had.  But......the weather report suggested rain and that would not be fun.  But the little restaurant in Buttrville would still be open - - and that was and is part of the fun,.  So, "bikeless" many of us went there for lunch and the ice cream.

We had a Memorial Day picnic at Jessica's and....Ruby and Jane's birthday celebration.

At Activity Day we had a bunch of different kinds of races and so forth.  Here, Ruby is 'ballooning' with Judy .

On Saturday Clara and Jane came over and helped us do four batches of fire wood.  We loved their help!

Sunday we had a second recital....a jus before suer recital.  Jude played his piano very nicely.

This group played beautifully...a[[arentl the did it years ago with the Marylhurst symphoney.

Sleepy Zelinsky

 Week 20 - Oregon City - May 18 - May 24, 2026

I liked the sunshine and shadows on the Arbs one morning about 8:15

I went hunting for Stinging Nettles 

...and foun this award winning one!

I'm discovering patfhes lf Clematis that I need to spray with a deadly herbicide.

Two years ago we tied up this Ponderosa tree so it would grow more upright.  We took the ropes off the trunk this week.

We a terrible infestation of Horsetail.  It's hard to elimnate.  What we've read said to keep it cut down and add lime to lower the ph....is loves aiei soil in a wet marshy environment.  So I started to cut down with the weed whacker.

My new weighted blanket arrived  I compared it to Jessic's'''hers is a bit wider (6-inches) and mine is 6 pounds heavier.

The whole family helped Julie Reed do a massive clean up at her apartment.  Warren had a conflict with a birthdayh party Copeland was invited to....so I went to party and Warren went to the yard.  Copeland had a grat time.

He loved the arcade, but it was too loud for me.

Sunday - as we always do on the Sunday before Memorial Day - we went to the cemetery and cleaned up the grave sites of is parents, grand parents, and aunt and uncle.

We aslo visited the grave site og Vanessah Morss' and her daughter's

And to top off the day, we celebrated Dolores' birthday too.

 Week 19 - Oregon City - May 11- May 17, 2026

Zelinski loves napping on the back of the leather loveseat.

I FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thre windows in the sewing room!

For Activity Day we finished up our nit or Readers Theater.  The we performed one of them for the youngr AD class.

The Portland Choir and Orchrestra had their concert...we went to the dress rehearsal at The Rolling Hills Church....quite the venue.!

Here's Jessica

And Bev

 Week 18 - Oregon City - May 4 -May 10, 2026

My brother sent me a photo of Boulder, Colorado in springtime.  SNOW1

I srent him this photo taken from our kitchen window.

Warren and family came over and planted all of their pupkin plants.

I am "minding" our cockleburr plant..it is a good life lesson about cultivting evil habits.

I walked up the middle of our main creek and pulled out nettles and nightshade plants.  What a mess!

I don't know the occasion in this photo of Clara and Abby.  But, they are cute!

Mother's Day - May 10th

And on Sunday we celebrated Clara's birthday.

 Week 17 - Oregon City, April 27 - May 3, 2026

Our great hunting cat brought a small bunnie for dinner.  Sigh.. We put it on the edge of the woods so it cold become the dinner of a possom or skunk or coyore or some other hungry animal.  Zelensky is licking his lips...........

The Clematis plant we got from Jenn Isom is growing well and producing beautiful flowers.

On Sunday, Holland and Copeland pt together a raffle and everyone got a ticket.  I won....along with Ryan and Camille.

 Week 16 - Oregon City,  April 20 - April 26, 2026

The woods are green growng.  There is so uch on the ground...grass, flowers..much moe thanI remember from years past.

Here - I'm standing close to Malcom's bridge and facing Sector 1.

Lots of Skunk Cabbage and big ones too.

My favorite cocklebur - Xanthium strumarium.   I'll eventually dig it up becuser I can't take a chance that seed might form.

I do my best to pull up every nettle.

Bev and Paul were somewhere and we had the kids over for a hot dog dinner....cooked then on our Solo Stove