Our house here is beautiful. The kitchen! My god the kitchen is gorgeous! There are five sinks! Five! And we actually have bowls! The sleeping situation isn't quite as nice as the Oregon Gardens- I'll be on a cot for the next five weeks- but I'm sharing an upstairs bedroom with just one other person, so I still have a lot of privacy. The only thing is... we're right next to a red wolf breeding facility. It's just getting dark now, and you can hear them yipping and howling at each other.
Tomorrow we'll be getting a tour of the property, and I assume we'll be starting work as well. I predict a lot of blackberry removal in our future!
Our time with the Oregon Gardens went so quickly. I was just starting to learn all of the shortcuts, and now we've moved on to a new project. Anyway, everyone has been asking me for pictures of the garden and our time in Silverton, so here you go!
The Bosque- if you look closely you can tell that the water is frozen.
Now you don't have to look closely!
The wetlands.
The oak grove.
Our tracks in the thin layer of snow.
Beautiful plants near the pavilion.
Shaunacy and Alyssa removing blackberry vines from a bush.
Shaunacy trimming grass plants
Ty using a leaf blower to get the burn pile going.
The burn pile. We kept this thing going for days and there was still a huge pile of wood left to burn.
Joey working on the puzzle.
My birthday! A bunch of us went bowling and they got me a cake!
We got tours of the Silverton Water Treatment Plant....
...and the Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Alyssa looks disgusted!
We got to plant some trees in our last couple of days- here's one of the saplings that I planted.
Dylan removing scotch broom.
Goodbye Silverton!
