Cattail Creek Farmer's Dinner and The Deschutes........

Very cool 48 hours.

We had our second Farmer's Dinner last night. Sold out, John Neumister of Cattail was our featured producer along with Dan and BShaw of Columbia Gorge Organic Mushroom......

Off the chart.

Here's my table of Guests (Well, Family and Supporters)



And a Shot of the Entree. Lamb Three ways.



This is Jan Jackson of Capital Press taking photos of John and Ben talking......



Some Prep, Introducing Luke Nance, our Kitchen understudy (Welcome Luke!)



The Next day, Julie cornered me and made me take here out on some property touring because now I'm so busy that the only time we get to talk is in the car to and from. She's a former assistant who is now the ED of the Farmer's Conservation Alliance, a group I'm dedicating alot of brianpower to. It makes what was once a quiet relaxing drive to a distant property to tour into a full blown brain drain..........



Turns out the guy is very conservation minded and was one of the first people to lease his water rights back to conservation groups. Made for instant connections.

It was a nice property on the Deschutes!

Fall Lingers.............

All I see is accidents these days......Here's a couple of accidents from this last month!



It's wierd how many accidents I'm stumbling across these days.......


September and things have started to slow down.....finally. The money is tight, but doable for the winter. I've spent much of September helping out get the Sixth Street caught up and organized.....Bit of this and that. We had the Sixth Street Dinner......Ate lots of Sushi, watched Ben recap the Summer during our Employee "guess how much we served?" Game........Holy shit we serve alot of food.........





....I hosted a delegation of Ukranians at the Yasui building this month too. THey are in the US for three weeks looking at Green Buildings. It is amazingly touchy to speak about challenges in our construction when they come from a country that has so much less stability in it than ours. Nice people. From Liviv, or Lion, in the Ukraine...



....Saw a Nacell on the Freeway the other day. We've been seeing alot of tower parts, but a Nacell is not that common. Looks like another tower is on the way......



....Nathaniel is at another school, and they took a tour of the Fire station, and did the whole spiel...very fun.......





We did photos for the FCA (Farmer's Conservation Alliance) a group That I'm involved with. Getting this group together has some of it's challenges, which roughly illustrate the complexities of the Rural Urban issues we face. Regardless, it was fun. GReat group of people who came up with an amazing invention that will, hopefully make a difference in Rural Oregon.





Jan Did the Art Direction, Peter Marbach took the Photo......


We went to a charity auction on Saturday night......"It's a lawnmower!" says Craig sheppard!



Cindy Kurahra and Kris Reynier Busted stealing desserts while their husbands bid on a trip to France........



And a great Sunday Hike to a beautful waterfall.......



Great Month....looks like the weather is changing....cold.......