A day at the beach

Memorial Day this year we went to Larabee State Park. It has a little rocky beach with lots of tide pools. The kids had a great time. They did very little wading or playing in the water but they had fun collecting shells, looking at sea critters and generally running around. There were star fish everywhere; big purple ones; as well as little crabs, fish and sea cucumbers. We even found one pool with sea anemones. There were these nice rock formations where we took a lot of group and individual shots. Then we went to the park playground and home for a bbq. We were tired out but had a fun day. Thank goodness for the sun.

P.S It rained the next day. boooo!

Science Fair Project

Aidan, Joseph, Natalie, Daisy & Ceili all worked together on a science fair project. Every year their school puts on a Science Fair. Eighth graders are required to do a project but anyone can do one who wants. All the younger kids said they wanted to do a project. I decided we should do only one. Aidan came up with the idea and we did it together. Thier subject was which brand of popcorn has the fewest unpopped kernels. So we popped and ate fifteen bags of popcorn and counted the left over kernels. I think they all enjoyed it. (Especially eating all the popcorn.) They got an outstanding ribbon. They are talking about next year. Aria will be doing a required project then so we will see.

Sorry Aaron, we almost couldn't wait for the pictures. These babies just look to good to not eat right away. Want you to know that your old fishing hole still has fish - a few less but still has fish. The one with the head on it was Chance's catch. Gma got two, Gpa got two, and Nathan got one. We all had several that got off. The worst of it was the one that must have run at least 10 pounds. I'm goina miss that one. And that is my story and I'm sticken to it. We all had a great time and would have liked to have the two, almost three, of you there to enjoy it with us. I just didn't want you to think those minnow sun fish are anything special.

Would like to see a post on here or yours letting us know what you guy were up to for this holiday weekend.

Enjoy Gma and Gpa

There was a couple of visitors at Gma and Gpa's homestead. This is a picture of just one of the red foxes that was in the pasture in front of our house. We hadn't seen them since they finished eating our chickens It was kind of fun.
Hope everyone enjoys Love to all Gma and Gpa.