When we first arrived, the kids found a see-saw someone had built out in the woods:

Here we are on our private (and abandoned) airstrip. The inconvenience of having no-one to bother for a cup of sugar is more than compensated for by the peace and quiet:

Today was our first day of home schooling.  Our son and I did a math exersize to figure out how many mishnas we would have to learn daily to complete the entire Mishna by his bar mitzvah.  We then learned the first 12 mishnas.

Here’s our daughter working on her math:

After lunch, we headed out to do some letterboxing.  We found four of them in short order:

At the last letterboxing site there was a sign explaining the view.  This can only be described as typical Oregon weather:

Tomorrow we’re supposed to get the first sunny day in the last two weeks, so hopefully we will actually be able to see the mountain itself.