After the Storm

The deer have lost a lot of their natural habitat in Surf Pines and we see them eating the grass in people's lawns.


We still have woods behind our house which is where I took this photo, but we need to remove about 20 trees. No clear cutting I hope. We haven't signed up anyone yet to do the job. I hope I can convince DeWayne to let someone else besides himself do the work.



We lost a few trees at the bus stop and the neighbor has hauled in a bunch of sand.


He is planning something--something attractive?


Nice landscaping I hope.


The view out our dining room window has really changed.


No forest left between us and the road up on Manion Drive. We don't have any privacy on our deck anymore. DeWayne doesn't want to spend any money on a privacy fence either. He says it would just blow over when we get the next big storm.


The constant noise of heavy equipment is tiring. Crunching off the trees at the low stump level, lifting and piling them in HUGE towering piles, grinding and chipping them and running the chips up a conveyor belt into big long trucks and hauling logs and chips away. Then what? I guess there will be three or four areas each an acre big to sell. Then we will look at someone's back yards. Maybe THEY will put up fences.


This is one of the noisy machines. I don't know what it is called.
And if the logging isn't enough I have been listening to roof repair all week. The "storm of the century" did a job on our roof.


We lost so many shingles and had some areas of leaking so had to replace the whole roof. It has been thumping, banging, hammering, tapping and the compressor that runs the nail guns going off and on.


Thankfully, the roofers are done and at least the noise and mess overhead are over.

On a positive note, tonight we had the most beautiful, clear night to view the lunar eclipse. It amazes me how bright the sky is here and how many stars we can see after seeing the sky overpowered by all the lights in Las Vegas. It was 41 degrees so I didn't stay out very long, but the beautiful view of the moon and the sky is imprinted in my mind.

Photos you can add to your collection

My sister, Marcia, feeds these deer regularly. They come to the front door to be fed. She has named one "Hoofy."

This is the 100 year old wreck of the schooner Peter Iredale on the beach in Ft. Stevens State Park, Warrenton, OR.


Snowfall on Pine Ridge Court


Sunset at Sunset Beach near our house.


View South from Neah-Kah-Nie Mt. on Hwy 101.


The "octopus" tree at Cape Meares State Park near Tillamook Oregon. Legend says Native Americans formed this Sitka spruce tree into this shape so that it would be a burial tree that would hold the canoe with the deceased inside. It is over 2000 years old.


A view of the ocean from Cape Meares State Park.


Rhiannon scratching behind both donkey ears at once.


Kids playing in a stream at Cannon Beach, OR.


The face of an innocent baby angel.


The 4.1 mile long Astoria-Megler bridge across the Columbia River which was built in 1966. Before it was built I loved riding the ferry across to the Rosburg-Greys River area where my Hanhi grandparents homesteaded in the early 1900's.