Well, we made it to our second round project! It's actually the first of two projects- we have a split round between Silverton, Oregon and Eatonville, Washington. We left Sacramento at 6am yesterday and arrived in Silverton after twelve loooong hours in Mayhem (that's our van, if you've forgotten). We passed through a white Northern California, and Lois played in the snow for the very first time!
Our Silverton project is with The Oregon Garden. We're going to help them maintain their various gardens and remove invasive species in their oak grove. I spent our first day here scraping moss off of their paths and cleaning. While we stay at the Oregon Gardens we have the use of their fire-safe house for cooking and laundry, but the kitchen hadn't been deep cleaned in a while. That fridge was Disgusting. Dylan, Lindsey and I tackled it, and by the end everything was shiny! Here's a picture of Blue 1 enjoying our nice clean kitchen:
We are actually staying in the Oregon Garden Resort, which is FANTASTIC. Imagine spending a month in New York on a cot in a room with twenty other people and zero personal space, and then being given a key to this room:
That's Shaunacy on her bed. We get that whole room to the two of us! And do you see the black square on the left? Yeah, that's a fireplace. Guess what else we get to use? The resort's hot tub. We're in heaven.
The man in charge of us here at the Oregon Gardens is Ty. He likes to say things like "rad" and "keep it classy" and has a charming habit of clapping his hands when he's thinking. We all really like him. He taught me how to drive this lovely little thing today!
It's called a gator. We'll be using it to move soil and weeds and rock for the next month. They're pretty fun.
It's been rainy and snowy and cloudy since we left California, but there have been a few sun breaks. Shaunacy and I decided to start counting the days that we see sun. Current count- 2. I'm sure you care a whole lot about sun in Silverton, so don't worry, I'll keep updating.
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