In October we went to a local park, to the Hoyt Arboretum, to hopefully see some fall color. We were surprised by a few trees that were beautiful and one-the Birch-Bark Cherry Tree from China- that was unusual-it had rings around it. The Oregon Vietnam Veterans Living Memorial was also there and it was a beautiful and serene place, truly a place for reflection.
Oct 22 we took our last kayak trip for the year. We went on our local river. Now it is too cold for this person to go. It was a nice trip with a beautiful clear day.
In November we went to McIver State Park. We've been there a few times and it's a good place to go for a hike. We tried some of the trails that we hadn't done before. Mr UAW saw a huge deer and there are views of Mt Hood, Mt Adams and Mt St. Helens.
Thanksgiving week we took a trip to CA to visit relatives and friends. Every year after Thanksgiving we go on a family hike. This years hike was great. It was in the Squaw Leap Recreation area. It's in the middle of CA in the Sierras. The Sierras have so much granite, something that is not prevalent here in the pacific northwest. It was nice to see.
Every year the grandkids make a candy house. It's a ginger bread house but has soooo much candy on it they named it a candy house. It's interesting to see their creative work every year.
My vegetable garden is done for the year. We now have frost in the mornings. It is now the beginning of December and the highs are in the 40's and the lows in the low 30's. Lately the wind has been blowing which makes all things colder. As I write this at 8:24pm it is 35 outside and the RealFeel temp is 24. We will be getting some rain in the next few days. When it rains it might get a bit warmer. We are enjoying the all the different seasons, something that we missed where we used to live in CA.
I have a few projects that I'm work on and will save a blog post for each one. I guess that's it for now.
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