Tucking in for the Winter

splitting wood

 

...and cleaning up after dinner

 

 

were only two of the things are latest Wwoofers excelled at.

 

 

Seriously, two harder working, more self-motivated people would be impossible to find.  We never expected to see someone split as much wood by hand as we did with the wood-splitting machine which we had purposely rented to make the job easier--especially as we were hoping to get the wood that I'd chain-sawed cut up and stored for our next couple of winters.  But it happened seamlessly.  And with the weather changing so suddenly, it's a very good thing.  Somehow, I forgot to record Mackensey's effort on film...I mean phone.

We just had our first storm of the season, and when we say storm, we are talking 50-60 mile-an-hour winds and probably some even higher-speed gusts.  One thing folks don't realize about the Oregon coast is just how BIG the winds can be.

 

As a way of saying 'thank you' to the Wwoofers who have made their way thru in 2013, we also share this amazing area in a day trip that takes them to various spots along our coast, especially a location known as "Secret Beach"  as well as a walk in the redwoods just over the state border in California. 

 

 Usually we see seals here that are checking us out as we walk along the beach, but this time we were fortunate enough to see a sea otter swimming from rock to rock, sunning at each stop.  The rock formations and natural land bridges make this place even more of a mini-national park.

 

 

 

 



 

the 2 Wwoofers you should have seen in an August posting

the post that never was...this would have happened in August


Hi folks:

It's been a LONG time.  What happened recently is indicative of my ongoing challenge with technology.  I keep hoping that there really is an easy, INTUITIVE way to do this.

MY PHONE CRASHED.
Guess where my photos of the August Wwoofers went?  For some reason, the % download was going nowhere! and the photos still may be out there somewhere in the blogosphere, but we'll never know.  I'm hoping that Danny and Robyn from Seattle will send me some photo update of both of them.  I believe that our September sisters from Otego, New York will be featured as I've seen two emails that I sent to myself in the office come thru.

However it won't show the amazing work Danny did in configuring the two gates that now open and close the garden and make it much more accessible, or the rope-flags Robyn sowed together on what must have seen endless rope to deter the deer further from entry and to creat a much more festive space.  Of course, they also did a fair amount of gardening in helping to create a more productive space than last year.

Thank you two and hope that you're escaping this crap weather we've been having of late.  These two are presently on their Denver leg of the trip and I can only assume that they are crossing the desert sooner than originally planned on their bicycles.