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Kathe Welch

@kathewelch.com

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ADHD Artist, Author & Retired Art Teacher. Elsewhere @kathewelch @FourOceanPress @FrogEagleFarms I live in Oregon with Goats and Chickens. 🐐 🐓 🦏 🚜 If I could have a pet Rhinoceros, I would!

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 03/05/2025

Columbine.

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 12/03/2025

Statewide, Oregon will lose 822.8 million or 8.3% of our education budget. Our schools are already under funded.

A chart showing Oregon will lose 822.8 million or 8.3% of our education budget. This includes 1,263 public schools serving 560,875 children, 70,177 of whom live below the poverty level with 18,743 of our children experiencing homelessness.

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 12/03/2025

This is an incredible resource. Here is what Oregon will miss out on if federal funding for school is cut.

This image show that if federal funding is cut to education, Oregon's first congressional district will lose 93.7 million dollars or 6.5% of our education budget. This district includes 148 public school serving 79,443 children. 7,031 of whom live below the poverty level with 2,075 of our children experiencing homelessness.

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 02/02/2025

Try this one.

Screen shot highlighting nirvana song and album

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 21/01/2025

Spent some time today cutting invasive English Ivy off if an old Oak tree. This will be an ongoing project for some time. Happy January 20th.

Overgrown English Ivy covering the trunk of tree.

Old Oak tree covered deep in English Ivy, some of which has been removed to rescue the tree.

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 07/01/2025

Added this awesome book and ten more to the shop. www.abebooks.com/servlet/Book...

Cover of the book "The Family Creative Workshop. Vol 7." Shows handmade glass in bright colors to illustrate one of the projects in the book.

Page from the book with a lesson on Heraldry and how to create your own. It shows several brightly colored examples of family crests.

Page from the book detailing how to make gold leaf. The illustration shows the back of a wooden chair beautifully painted.

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 07/01/2025

I just downloaded photos from my phone. 263 photos, so far this year. In six days. Looks like the year is off to a good start. This Grand Fir seedling and 6 of his friends just got moved because the were growing too close to the fence.

Three inch tall Grand Fir seedling next to a work boot for scale. Wet maple leaves and mosses cover the ground around it.

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 14/12/2024

I am slowly adding books from my career teaching art to middle and high students to Abe Books, so they can find a new home. Find them at our Four Oceans Press shop. www.abebooks.com/servlet/Stor...

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 31/10/2024

We need to do a series called “Whose hole is that? For things we find around the farm. This just appeared today in the chickens yard. It is about 1/2 inch by 2 inches. It is at least eight inches deep before any turns - measured with a stick.

Eight inch deep hole that magically appeared today.

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 30/10/2024

Planes like this fly over our farm all the time. They seem to cut their engines and then turn them back on. Why do they do that?

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 18/10/2024

There was a second slightly smaller one about 20 feet away. It emitted brown dust when kicked. The dust was similar to the dust from slime molds we have seen in our garden.

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 18/10/2024

Mushroom ID help! Found this on our hill in a grassy area 20 feet from a group of Douglas Firs. We are in NW Oregon. It is 12-14 inches high, maybe 4-6 inches across. Shoe in video is men’s 10.5. I think it has to be a mushroom fruiting body, but can’t match it on the internet.

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Kathe Welch @kathewelch.com · 30/09/2024