Boy, oh, boy, did it rain last week! We had quite some serious downpours accompanied by very strong wind-gusts. We heard that Mcminnville had a gust of 85 miles/hour!
A few trees went down in the county but fortunately we didn't loose any power and besides some large branches that came down around us from the oak we're under, we had no damage at all.
Which can not be said from the poor folks in California, they suffered several flash-floods and mudslides and people lost their lives because of downed trees crashing on cars and houses.

                                                            

Despite the bad weather, which caused lots of leaves to fall already, the vineyards are still showing their gorgeous colors ..

Pretty eh? But most of the week it looked more like this:

   

Ans since the rest of the week wasn't any better, we didn't even get to golf at all!
We did order sushi to go on Wednesday though, and brought it over to Doug and Brenda for an easy dinner for all of us.
No pictures of course .. sigh, I don't know why it is so hard to take a picture of the four of us but it almost never happens ..
Here's two of how the food looked like, sort of:

It was delicious once again!

One nice thing coming out of all this wetness are ... mushrooms!

They literary seem to pop up over-night, and although some look rather tasty we didn't chance trying any of them. I'm pretty sure they're all poisonous ..

As for the orchard we're sitting in (which looks so pretty when it doesn't rain doesn't it?) soon, Brett (our landlord) will cut some trees down to sell as Christmas trees, and Serena (his wife) has her eye on one for herself.

                    

All the little ones will stay of course, so fortunately it won't be looking like one of those clear-cut disaster areas, like we sometimes come across when we drive through the forests around here.

I think that was about all for this week. Due to the weather we didn't 'do' much. We basically spend the weekend inside. Which was very cozy nevertheless.
We had the fireplace going, took long and lazy coffee breaks and made some simple meals. James took the opportunity to put some hours of study in and I started a new puzzle.
The one that I only make once a year, in the fall .. lots of pumpkins!

                         

Hopefully next weekend will be better, we might be able to get some golf in and I'd like to check out the Champoeg State Park, which is only 10 minutes away from us.

The forecast does look a lot better, so we'll see!