End Of Spring Break

Friday was beautiful, so I was sitting outside and realized one the raised beds in my backyard was covered in weeds. I weeded it and then had this beautiful patch of dirt that was begging for me to grow something in it! So I went to the store and got some sugar snap peas, some red lettuce and two anemone flowers and planted them up. I love having them outside my window! So far so good, no cats interfering and no snails on my lettuce. My little peas are already starting to attach to the trellis.



Yesterday Ashlee and I went to the SOLV Beach Clean-Up in Florence, and the weather could not have been better. Overcast, not too windy, it started pouring on our drive home, so we got lucky. In our get-ups:


Ashlee found a lightbulb and quickly discovered it had life within! Video below...I couldn't bear to throw these guys in the trash so we took the bulb down to the ocean and Ashlee set them free with a rock. She also topped her boots, but fortunately was wearing wool and suffered no ill effects.


We also found this palette, which was quite heavy. We had wrangled a long piece of rope out of a smelly kelp mass earlier, and dug it out of my bag (now containing broken glass due to the rescue effort), and Ashlee rigged this up so we could drag it back. I'm pretty glad that a volunteer came up to us and let us know we could just tell the person at HQ that it was on the beach to be picked up, before we dragged it too far.


A perk to being a good person...Oregon State Police Volunteer magnet for the car! Ashlee was stoked.

Other items found: a needle (ick), many many beer cans and bottles, tiny bits of plastic, cigarette butts, candy wrappers, fast food cups, water bottles, a film canister, a large tupperware lid, one Roxy flip flop, and a pvc pipe.

Here is our video of the little swimmers trapped in the lightbulb. It reminded me a little of the town of Who-Ville on a larger scale. I scold Ashlee at the end because she wanted to let them fight it out...