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Calhoun Point Trek
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Calhoun Point Trek
October 31, 2010
Another day of walking in the great outdoors was on our agenda. We headed out to what Stewart calls Calhoun Point but we had named “Dave’s Place” after my brother-in-law David who chose this as “his camping spot.” With our packs in tow, we head out to the expanding sandy beach that was created by the lack of rain. We saw a sandpiper walking along the shore, we got within a pretty good range of it but we turned away so we would not disturb it from getting its lunch. Austin came across a black caterpillar. I announce “Oh cool a Woolly Bear!”, hoping the kids thought I was talking about a real bear but I didn’t fool them any. Anna found a set of raccoon tracks “Mom, the back foot looks like a kids footprint!”
Where we were walking, was far enough out that if the water level had been where it should be, the water would have been over our heads. This made for an interesting view of what has been a camping spot before. Stewart walked up to a stump and said: ” Hey, I think this may have been where we put out our trot lines before.” I looked around viewing the place we would have been swimming and commented, “Well, at least, when we come back we don’t have to worry about the kids swimming out here, there is no drop offs.” We kept walking around the point and we come upon a rocky area.
Adam brings me a rock “Mom, this looks like it has Chinese writing on it!” I comment, “Well more like cuneiform we learned about in history but yes it does look like writing, but I think it is just “wear marks.” Austin brings a funny rock to me that looks like a skull. Anna is busy trying to get out on the rocky muddy mound without getting wet. “I can do it mom…really I can…”
Then Adam gets up on top of the hill. “Hi, mom!!” Then Anna comes up and takes the hill by storm. “Hee, hee,” she says with a grin, the little stinker.
Out on the next point was a very large expanse of beach. Stewart and I sit on an old log that was a piece of driftwood. It was a very scenic view from where I sat resting. Withs the kids out investigating the beach we enjoyed the peacefulness of GOD’s great world. We sat with full contentment watching the kids run races, play in the sand, and look at bugs. Adam comes up and sets with us to watch for a while, of course, he uses his monocular so he can see them better. “Mom, Anna is very far away!” he says, looking up I notice his monocular is turned around backward, on purpose of course.
“Mom, this is Fred. Fred is my friend. I want to keep Fred. I will take care of him and… and…”
Hmmm…”Anna, Fred needs to stay here, this is his home.”
“But Moooommm, I like him!”
“Yep, let’s get a picture so you can remember him.” “OK, now go toss Fred in the lake far out so he can live.”
By the way, in case you didn’t know, “Fred” is a freshwater mussel she had found.
We had our rest and it was time to head back. Stewart suggests we go back through the wooded trail instead of covering ground we had already covered. Austin found some briar trees that had no leaves, something that must be investigated during school. Adam found a piece of a log that looked like a hatchet, so he totes it around whacking on various bushes and trees with his “ax.” We walk and Adam swears we are not going the right way.
“What if we are lost. What if we never find our car. What if…What if…”
“Adam, trust me sweety, I know where we are going.”
I love spending a wonderful day with my family, I would not trade it for anything in the world. We laugh, learn, and love GOD’s beautiful gift to mankind, the outdoors.
~Becky~
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Harvesting the Corn
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Harvesting the Corn
November 1, 2010
We have tried for several years to grow corn in our garden. Most of the time we would get a few spindly stalks with no ears or we would grow great stalks with scrawny ears. This year after our purple hull harvest, Stewart had decided to plant some corn just to have something to grow in the pea patch. We assumed it would do poorly as it had in the past but much to our surprise it did really well.
Shucking corn by the pig pen seemed like the perfect place to do the job.
They would shuck the husks and toss them to our pot belly piggies and then cut off any bad spots and give them to the pigs or the donkey. Our little piggies thought they were in Heaven.
Adam comes up to me with corn silk on his head and says, “Mom, now I know how they make wigs!” I just love that child’s imagination.
We harvested over 290 ears of corn off of this small corn patch. We blanched and bagged right around 50-gallon bags of corn on the cob. Thank you, LORD, for such a bountiful harvest.
~Becky~
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Tri-Birthday Party
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Happy Birthday Austin, and Anna, and Adam
OK so this may be the “lazy and cheap” way to do a birthday party but it works for us! My kids birthdays are two weeks apart, starting in the middle of October ending in the middle of November. My solution is, have a party on the middle birthday and throw it for all three, only a small party and only family.
It saves so much time and money by only having to buy food and cake and decorations for one party. Also, it is nice to only have one gathering with the family since Thanksgiving is in November too. Aside from the tri-party, on or around the actual date of the birth of each child we cooked them a big breakfast of their choice, take them out to the movies or someplace special, and out to eat and shopping to spend their birthday money, and I cook them a dessert that they choose. It is still easier for me to do it this way rather than a traditional “party per kid” way.
They all seem very happy with this idea and they all had a great birthday this year. I have some awesome kids. They were all patient and took turns blowing out their candles and opening presents. The way we do the candle blowing is I start out the cake with the fifteen candles needed this year for my oldest Austin, then I remove five and relight, and then remove two more and relight so each kid gets Happy Birthday sang to them and all get to blow out candles. Stewart cooked some burgers on the grill and we had cake, then the cousins all played and the adults sat around and chatted till it was time to leave. A successful party for 2010!
~Becky~
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Blackforest Walkabout
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Blackforest Walkabout
October 23,2010
We were bored so we decided to go for another walk, just a short one because it was getting late. We drove down to the end of the road in the Black-forest community where the road dead ends into Lake Sam Rayburn. The lack of rain has left the lake really low so we had plenty of beach area. The sun was setting and was quite beautiful.
Anytime we go on a walk into the great world of nature we always carry our adventure science bags. They have containers and tweezers and magnifying glasses, paper and pencils and bug identification books.All the things a young scientist will need to take samples and investigate the world around them. I labeled these their S.C.O.U.T. bags…Science Class Outdoor Unique Tour..yes a bit of a stretch to get the name I wanted but hey it worked.
Anna and Austin with their S.C.O.U.T. bags in tow
Adam forgot his bag but that didn’t slow him down any. He just had his loving family help keep up with his treasures he found along the way. Being a bit more free worked well for Adam, he was excited and full throttle the whole time.
We walked along the beach looking at shells, footprints, feathers, plants, and crawdad holes. Every time I would stop to take a picture I would announce “Oh cool, check it out” and then to my surprise I would get the back of a little head in my viewfinder of my camera!
Above pic left to right: an emergent plant, raccoon track, mini sand dunes, Adam’s curiosity, a feather, crawdad hole, a large dog or cat print, and a deer or hog print.
We came upon a very large dead fish which did not smell the greatest but it had large scales that became part of our treasures for study.
Adam “Ewww gross!!”
Once we got out to the point of the beach the wind started to pick up and blew the sand across the beach. A mini dust storm was the one thing we will remember the most. The way the sand slithered along the ground was almost spiritual. It reminded me of the plague in Egypt of the death of the first born like in the cartoon Prince of Egypt. The way that it slinked and weaved in and around each bush and grass clump. It was a great lesson for the kids because last week we learned about the great dust storms the U.S. had back in the 1930s.
Anna got a bit far ahead and had to come back facing the storm.
The sun had set and it was time to leave. Though it was a short adventure, it was a good one!
The setting sun over the tree line. Simply Beautiful.
~Becky~
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Boykin Lake Mini-Hike
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Boykin Lake Mini-Hike
October 17, 2010
A beautiful fall day we opted to go for a mini hike around Boykin Springs area. We love going walking in nature, I always try to print out an outdoor scavenger hunt list. Here is a link to one of many lists you can google online or make up your own if you have the time to include different things in your area.
http://www.campingtripfun.com/scavenger-hunt.html
This time, I printed one list and we all looked for the items but you can also print separate lists and do it as a race but I think that the kids get to caught up in “winning” instead of enjoying.
So I was the official list keeper and cameraman (err… woman). We took pictures of flowers and insects,
lizards, and minnows,
mosses and leaves.
We spent time discussing the items we have studied in our botany class and promising to Google the things we didn’t recognize when we get home. We walked investigating the wonderful world GOD created for us. If you can walk in nature and not see GODs handy work in every little detail then I feel for you, it is a solid reminder that the world was created by a Master Craftsman and there is no way possible we “evolved”.
To watch my children completely engaged in nature and the excitement you never catch on their faces when in front of a TV screen, I am assured we are making beautiful memories.
Collage of our day
The top two pics to the left are of the dry creek bed we came across.
The two pics to the top right is some kind of wild wheat I presume.
Large pic to the left middle is Boutin Lake which we walked around.
A pic of me with the kids and a pic with my hubby with them.
A pic of changing leaves, purple flower, fence post lizard, yellow flowers, & a spiny orb weaver.
We had a picnic lunch at the nearby picnic shelter.
An idea was brought up that we needed to build a shelter like this on our property. I quickly reminded them that we had an arbor that is much the same as this.
Adam is enjoying his turkey sandwich but would still like to have a BIG arbor like this. He tells how there would be room for a living room and bedrooms. Once again I have to say no.
Austin quickly reminds me that teenagers do not like pictures taken when they have food in their mouth.
Anna is enjoying her apple very much, she doesn’t mind one bit that I take her picture.
We had a wonderful day on our hike and picnic. I can’t wait to go again, next time we will go to a different place, just to keep it interesting.
~Becky~
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