Caleb spent last week with his classmates at a camp called High Trails. They hiked 6-8 miles a day, learned a ton about the forest, saw moose, roasted marshmallows, and had an all-around blast. I think he would have liked to stay there indefinitely, but a certain little girl was very glad he came home. […]
Our seedling tomato plants were bulging at the seams of their tiny plugs, so Zia and I repotted them into four tubs. I’m not sure how long the tubs will hold them, but at least they have room to spread out, and we can still drag them in and out of doors. I’ve heard our […]
Friday morning Zia and I took off for Sourdough Trailhead to do some hiking. We had never hiked there before, but it turned out to be a good trail, well marked, and not overrun with hikers. In fact, we were the only ones on it. That could have been due to the fact that it […]
This week I’ve been keeping a very bored little girl busy during her brother’s spring break to NM. When she got tired of painting and drawing and reading books and watching nature movies, she asked to try finger knitting, then crocheting with a hook, and finally needlepoint on plastic canvas. After that she chopped up […]
Zia was really excited when I picked up this little birdhouse for her at Michael’s Crafts. She told Caleb it was going to be their special project together, which of course brought groans of delight from him. She did manage to get him to draw a face on the front. She colored the little house […]
