Caleb did a super herculian job on the trees! The neighbor's roof is no longer in danger of being damaged by falling limbs, sunlight streams through to my flower beds, and all the debris is hauled off to the dump!

Jack and Caleb worked together with ropes, power and hand saws to get the over hanging limbs off the trees we wanted to keep. Then Caleb went to work on the the saplings. Saplings sounds small but most of them were 30 or more feet tall! We got the elms and birch done Thursday. We planned on attacking the willow Friday morning with hopes that it would only take another 2 or 3 hours.

Friday morning plans changed drastically when Caleb got a call from Portland that his roommate was in ICU at OHSU! Tim had been involved in some kind of accident and had suffered brain trama. While I fixed Caleb food for the road he went up in the willow tree and knocked what he could out and then was on his way back to Portland check on Tim in the hospital. The good news is that Tim was released Saturday and it looks like he's going to be ok.

We enjoyed having Hank and Jasmine as much as seeing Caleb! Hank and Mike seemed to remember each other. They wrestled and raced around the yard. Shilo and Jasmine are the same size and temperment - both love to fetch and are mild mannered. I got to take "the pack" for a walk in the Klamath Falls hills and it was a hoot! I'm easily entertained these days!!! Four big dogs streached out on our livingroom floor was a great sight. We had a full house!

Today I got the ground ready for rasberry plants that I'm getting from Fort Klamath tomorrow. Gifts from Leo and Signe. They have a huge rasberry patch at their cabin and are letting me dig up enough to start my own patch! They'll set roots this fall and may even produce berries next July! I'll have strawberries, blueberries and rasberries all from my own back yard next year! So cool!

Waiting now to find out "the rest of the story" from Thailand on stitches either Maya or Brett received Saturday, the 20th...