The Yard is Magical Close Up

photos were taken through the viewfinder of a Holga, using a Sony Cybershot T200 on macro.

Food, again

Delicious stuffed peppers for dinner followed by chocolate/white chocolate cookies for dessert!

Oregon Trail

The kind and loving state of Oregon just issued David an "Oregon Trail Card" that gives us money for groceries while we are both still working on getting working. YAY!

(I'm going to buy 100lbs of buffalo and only carry 20lbs back to the wagon)

COOKING!

Kristin has nothing else to do besides cook. And so she made squash soup... from scratch. Literally. Bought them whole, scooped and roasted the squash and everything. It turns out you can't can squash soup because you'll die of botulism if you even try. So, some went to Swift and co. and the rest is in the freezer. Yay!

fun kitchen!

Cottage Grove Dance Party

The scene was Ax and Fiddle with Richard Swift playing DJ and the townsfolk as dancers!

Hot Springs!

The Shealynn and the ladies invited Kristin to come along to the hot springs. Totally in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the woods with nothing but rocks and huge trees all around and a one-mile hike in. People out here love to get natural.

These photos were taken in the parking lot... so you can imagine that the hot springs were even more beautiful!

JOBZ

David got work landscaping (see: chain gang) and basically works rain/shine digging trenches. I think they've moved on to planting trees now... and eventually there will be a waterfall. It all amounts to someone paying someone else $80k to dig up their yard something fierce.

Kristin is in talks with the Oregon Lions Eye Bank about some per diem eyeball work. She's also still working on her creative portfolio to get some of that action happening too.

Cottage Grove is beautiful and everyone is still really nice... except the tweaker who came over asking if we could babysit his cats.