Winter Interrupted

We interrupt this stretch of miserable, rainy, gray, winter weather to bring you a blissful day of sunshine!

 M and D, checking our baby trees

Today, being Wednesday, is the day after Cub Scouts.  We always need a day to recover.  Cub Scout meetings, specifically pack meetings, zap our will to live.  We needed to spend the day frolicking in the sunshine and hiking around the property.

Two Little Naturalists 

Lucky for us we can call it a forest ecosystems field trip, complete with animal observations:

Rough Skinned Newt

Stopping by the Pond

This used to be a giant old maple that M remembers playing around when he was a kid.  Part of it came down in a wind storm, but was hung up on another tree.  It came down completely in the last wind storm and IJ has decided to live in the stump.

Home, Sweet Home

E wants a home in the woods too.  

 D enjoys the view from his dad's back

After F fell in the pond, we came inside, had baths, lunch, and haircuts, and went back outside to climb the cherry tree.

Monkey #1

Monkey #2

Monkey #3

And D finally went down for a nap!