I don't think this is the same doe that has been coming around with her fawn all summer, this one's a lot lighter in color and has even some white markings on her throat and legs.
I really didn't see her at all at first, even though I was looking right at her ..

                                                               Can you see me know?

It wasn't until she moved that I spotted her .. she seems to love eating the old blackberry leaves, which she very dainty and carefully picks off the thorny brambles ..

Her pickings are getting slimmer I guess, lots of leaves have fallen, although the grass is still rather green and even still growing somewhat.
My cosmos is still putting out quite a lot of flowers, it really didn't start do anything much until September come to think of it. I'm happy with the little bit of color it gives!
And look at those (two) strawberries! So cute ..

  

As you can see by that drop of rain hanging on the strawberry, we're still having quite a lot of rain at the moment. There's some dry hours here and there but it looks like that rain is here to stay for the season!
It causes the area around the RV getting rather muddy (aside from the platform with the mat in the front and the pallets at the back) and we've been trying to come up with something that will give us something like a dry walkway to the office.
We finally decided to put down some cheap outdoor carpet which seems to work quite well:

 

It's totally eco-conscious carpet by the way, made from post-consumer recycled plastic drinking bottles! Look at us, we're so 'green'!

Let's see, what else .. oh, for our weekly dinner-out we ended up in a Latin american restaurant, Pura Vida, in Mcminnville.
Pura Vida is the Costa Rican song for good life and 'cocina' means kitchen.

We had to get some stuff at Lowes (like that outdoor carpet) so we took advantage of trying something we don't have in Newberg.
It's a small relaxed restaurant which offers Latin American inspired food and drinks from several countries including Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Perú, Argentina, and Ecuador.
We ordered Piquillos, quinoa stuffed peppers, and Paella.

I thought the paella was a little small for what we payed ($19) and the chicken was dry and overcooked, but the rest tasted OK, especially the mussels were excellent. The stuffed peppers were actually very nice and the salad very large and fresh.
All in all not bad, but I don't think we'll be back.

I did some nice cooking for the weekend myself. For breakfast there was a Grand Slam, which for some reason had been a while .. always good!



And for dinner I threw a whole chicken in the Instant pot and cooked it sort of 'sous-vide', as in totally submersed in water, which is very unusual for the instant pot, normally you only use a cup or so.
See? As I joked on Whatsapp, a la Swedish Chef: ' Zee-a Cheecka is in zee-aa basket .. ehh .. Instuont put! Børk, børk, børk!

And guess what, it was delicious! Much juicier than when using the conventional method! Definitely what James always says .. 'it's a winner'!

Our little home always looks so cozy in the fall.
The woodstove is glowing, all the lights are on, the Great British baking Show (reruns) is on the Telly and there's a puzzle on the table ..

Home sweet home ..