Expansive Oregon Country Birthday Party

There are a number of us who have moved to this rural Oregon area over the years. It was an intentional move to enjoy the beautiful countryside and the wonderful life that we can create here. We have banded together over the years and formed a kind of intentional extended family. We gather to celebrate events, trade stories, joke about the old days and so on. These photos are a birthday party started for Janai but she was too sick with Hay Fever and Migraine that it triggered. So it expanded to anyone in the group with a birthday within a few weeks.

An insanely beautiful Oregon afternoon. We all have slug eyes as the past weeks have been gray and rainy for the most part. So the full sun is a bit brutal on the eyes.
Note slugs are the creatures that slime their way around the dark spaces in the forests of Oregon.




This in the lovely backyard of Mike and Maya off a little side road a few miles outside of Drain.

Being old Hippie types who know how to cook good food from scratch, the meals are a delicious blend of yummy food. The potlucks are not to be missed.

I love digital cameras. This is photographic evidence of a certain someone who jumped in front of line for food............ Mister........... haha

I put a twice baked potato in his back pocket for a little surprise on the ride home...... hehe, not really.


Mike got our attention and stopped us all from talking so he could take this picture. He said something like Hey you #$@!#$, !#@$!@#$ so I can take @!$#@!#$ @#!@#$ picture. Ah the power of the English language spoken by a college educated English graduate is a beautiful thing.


Note to self - Do NOT party with a school teacher. Lordy Maya made a pop quiz for us to take. Nothing like a foggy alcohol brain casting back 30 or more years for trivia.

Haaaaaaaaaaa You thought I was kidding.......... here is the test.

Nice thing about taking a test with old people, they say the answers out loud. I guess as you get old your mouth speaks what your brain thinks as you right down answers.


Mr. Mike finished his test early and decided to finish his afternoon nap? The house and land looked beautiful so they had worked very hard to spiff everything up.

Ah yes, desert - as tastey as it looks. Plus Dana drooled a bit of chocolate over the plates before serving. I have never been in a commercial kitchen so I did know they squirted the chocolate out of their mouth......... gave a very different consistency.


Oh you are soooooooooo busted, Wendy. I see you eyeing that desert. Actually she was very well behaved while someone appearing to look a lot like her mom kept stealing raspberries off the top.



In prepartion for the future and in honor of Jeanne's and Michael's funny story, I offer the following.



So this is how we entertain ourselves in the coastal mountains of Oregon on a beautiful spring day. Living as we do on The Edge of the World - thank you Richard B. from Germany.