Category Archives: Nature
Baby Blue Jay
Backyard Ornithology – The Study of Birds
One of the best ways to homeschool science is to simply watch the world around you and learn!
I was outside giving my three big dogs a much needed bath when my son brings me a baby blue jay who had presumably fell from its nest. He had it in a cage already with a pan of water. In his mind it was his new pet.
I told him to just put it on the porch out of the reach of the dogs while I finished up my chore and cleaned up. I knew I needed to intervene of this little Baby Blue would not survive in human care!
“Free Fishing Day” Fun
It was the official “Free Fishing Day” in Texas and we were determined to get in on some of that action.
It took us a while to find a nice quiet place to try to get our hooks wet. We drove around for an hour, the places that weren’t already packed, were flooded by the recent abundance of rain Texas has received.
Our “let’s look one last place” turned out to be the impassable road leading to our favorite camping spot.
We had only planned to perch fish anyway, so this place was as good as any for that! And the best part, there were no other folks trying to crowd in on the action. Thank God, because the five of us crowding in to fish down a one lane road was bad enough!
Biking “Dead Roads”
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Biking “Dead Roads”
Last time, we hiked our newly found “Dead Road”… today we decided to bike it to where another road is suppose to intersect with it and lead to a small pond. We hoped to check out the pond and maybe find a new place to primitive camp out in the middle of the national forest.
We figured biking to it to check it out would be a lot faster and on bikes we could go a lot farther than on foot…
Hiking “Dead Roads”
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Hiking “Dead Roads”
The other day, out riding around and hiking in the national forest, we came across a series of “dead roads.” I was excited that we found new places to hike close to home! We looked at the map and started plotting where all these “dead roads” might lead and how we could walk for miles through forest by just following along these old roads that were no longer in use!
“Flip a Coin” Road Trip
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“Flip a Coin” Road Trip (and Roll the Dice)
With all the heavy rains the last couple weeks here in Deep East Texas, we decided hiking this weekend, was probably not a great idea. We couldn’t think of any trails that would be accessible and not a muddy mucky mess! So we decided to go for a drive!
As always, the question arises, “Where do you want to go?” The solution was easy… flip a coin!
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