{"id":4615,"date":"2020-11-01T00:05:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T00:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/?page_id=4615"},"modified":"2021-06-25T21:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:27:11","slug":"october-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/our-rv-adventures-2019-20\/riding-out-covid-in-portland\/october-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"October in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are having a grand time with Kajsa, Brad, and the kids!\u00a0 Remote schooling is going pretty well — Sammy works pretty hard most of the time.\u00a0 Of course, he’s a 2nd grader and so there ‘are’ exceptions to that.\u00a0 Judith and I are learning ways to motivate him to focus, including playing Blackjack (21) for addition & subtraction skills, and Scrabble for spelling.\u00a0 Now, if we can only find a trick for motivating writing….<\/p>\n

We had a science outing tp the Richfield National Wildlife Refuge nearby to study birds and wildlife behavior.\u00a0 \u00a0With a little practice, Sammy could be a pretty good little birder! We saw Great Blue Heron, Lesser Yellowlegs, Great Egret, female American Wigeon, Ring-Necked Duck, Wood Duck, Harrier, and Red-tailed Hawk.\u00a0 Sammy was particularly excited by the Red-tailed Hawk who posed for us very nicely.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> \u00a0\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We have a healthy ‘bubble’ that includes the family, and we have enjoyed numerous meals with the family.\u00a0 \u00a0Throughout most of September and October we have been able to enjoy meals on their back deck, sometimes picking up food from local restaurants – like the burrito shop a couple blocks away.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Their son, Anders, celebrated his Fourth Birthday recently.\u00a0 It was a Red, White, and Blue, American Flag celebration.\u00a0 As a special bonus, three baby goats visited the party!\u00a0 Everybody got a chance to hold the baby goats, even Aunt Judy!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Of course, it is not all fun and games.\u00a0 Sometimes there is homework to do!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We did a science project – investigating a Buckeye nut.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tooie had a good time investigating Sammy’s book bag.\u00a0 She really ‘got into it’!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, she’s a whiz at the computer!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Our old lead-acid batteries finally came to the end of their life.\u00a0 Sammy supervised the installation of our new Lithium batteries.\u00a0 \u00a0With the change we went from 8 golf cart batteries (62# each) to 3 Ohmmu Lithium batteries (31# each) for a weight savings of over 400#!\u00a0 I re-used one of the old battery boxes for the lithium batteries, and we are using the other one for storage.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Halloween is now upon us.\u00a0 \u00a0Sammy and Judith had fun making some masks.\u00a0 Then everyone came over for Trick-or-Treat!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Schools are not expected to re-open for in-person classes until late January.\u00a0 So this will likely be our home for a while.\u00a0 It is such a pleasure spending time with Kajsa, Brad, and the boys!<\/p>\n

Next Post:\u00a0\u00a0Portland \u2013 Winter into Spring 2021<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Previous Post:\u00a0 \u00a0Summer in Ohio \u2013 On to Oregon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are having a grand time with Kajsa, Brad, and the kids!\u00a0 Remote schooling is going pretty well — Sammy works pretty hard most of the time.\u00a0 Of course, he’s a 2nd grader and so there ‘are’ exceptions to that.\u00a0 Judith and I are learning ways to motivate him to focus, including playing Blackjack (21) … Continue reading October in Oregon<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4873,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4762,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4615\/revisions\/4762"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}