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Week 18 ~Cold, Clear Creek!

Always reminding myself to get in pics with my kids. Lizard Lover The girls have really liked having a garden this year. This guy thinks I should just play with him while I am outside at night. I am concerned about what my husband plans to do with these Habanero Peppers… I am still only getting a few tomatoes at a time but at least that is something I guess. I really like these fraction tiles.

We have some flat ones that came with our RightStart Math but these are thick and a lot easier to use. On saturday we braved the possible crowds and went to Little Blue Area near Disney Park. There were a lot of people near the deeper part but thankfully you could spread out and mostly stay away from people. It is such a beautiful, clear creek!

And so cold! This little butterfly decided she was a great place to rest on for a while.

I would love to go here on a weekday morning but it was still a beautiful day.

Anyone else have kids that get really loud at creeks?

Just mine?

Ha

Week 17 ~snakes and homemade board games

We picked the last big batch of radish pods from our garden. I actually pickled them which the kids liked but I am not sure about.

They are odd.
My youngest son has been on a game making streak!

They are all historical battle games so he has been researching like crazy.Basically he made his own history unit.

HaThe boards and game pieces are so impressive.
They are kind of like Risk and therefore hard for me to play… By the end of the day my brain feels fried so I am not a great opponent. I am enjoying stepping outside and checking on my garden more than taking the actual pictures but I am still at it.

Even when it is something I am not excited about like these blister beetles eating up what was left of my potatoes.

The pests have been intense in the garden right now.I am coating everything in Diatamacous Earth and it seems to be helping.At the lake my oldest girl decided to see what was under the dock and found a surprise 😉We watched him for a long time.

I use oksnakes.org to i.d. all these guys.Then while swimming at a local lake we had another snake to study!Both were harmless water snakes as far as I could tell but it is always a bit unnerving to see a snake where you are swimming…

Would you keep swimming if you saw a snake?

My boys did but I was done…

Week 16 ~getting stir crazy

We are still trucking along, trying to finish up some school work before starting new grades. But as I see more and more people travel around and go on vacation I feel more and more stir crazy. Since we do not know what will be open and it has been really hot we are trying to wait to go rving anywhere right now.

Which sounds good until I am actually doing it.

ha
At least we have plenty of time to finish girls hair. All of the bikes got worked on before the 4th for Nick’s bday wish. He wanted to go on a long walk for his bday so he had the kids and I ride. The first part of the trail was my favorite.

It was so pretty, birds and flowers everywhere!

It was right by Gathering Place.

So of course the kids wanted to play when we finished 😉

Are you staying close to home this summer or are you travelling?