Corner Hike

We took a couple hikes up to the corner, where there's another tiny pond. The hike is short, but very very steep. The views are fantastic, and the pond is fun and filled with tadpoles.

Paddling on the Pond

On a separate trip to the pond, we took Clara's inflatable boat/raft. The kids paddled around for a while and enjoyed figuring out the paddles. The trip was stopped short by some excess drama from a neighbor, but that's a story for another time.

Frog Legs

One of the highlights of this trip was ... frog legs! Clara and Zach came up with a scheme to hunt and eat some frogs on the farm. They researched how to do the hunt, and even researched how invasive these bullfrogs are (in case anyone was feeling bad about killing them). And they succeeded! Frogs were hunted ("gigged"), and killed (which was much harder than expected), and skinned, and cooked, and finally even eaten! Not bad!

 

We also found tadpoles and much smaller frogs up at the corner pond. We hold out a tiny little bit of hope that these are actual native frogs, but understand that it's incredibly unlikely. They're probably just younger. 

Friends at the Pond

The kids discovered a fun, partially submerged log that was perfect for sitting upon, and challenging each other to walk across. I'm pretty sure Molly was the only one to actually fall in. :)

Putting people to work

We also put some friends to work: putting a roof on the loo, building a chair from scraps, not to mention all the work Duff did on the barn!!

With Friends

Over the course of the week we enjoyed a steady flow of friends visiting and staying. Some came for the day, some camped overnight. Sometimes there were lots of folks, and sometimes just a few.

(Meta picture: picture of Clara watching Sofi take a picture of Kim and extended family; Rubik's cube puzzling; Clara and friend quiet time; friends in the river)

Spring Break Farm Pictures

Well, spring break was a while ago, but I'm sorting through pictures and I'll schedule them out for a week of posts for everyone to enjoy. This first set will be the miscellaneous pictures. Stay tuned through the end for an awesome set of pictures from our friend Eugene (thanks, Eugene!!!).

Without further ado, let the pictures begin!

(the barn is looking beautiful (as are the kids!); we discovered some goose eggs; reading by the light of the smartphone; the take-apart chair that we built; 50 of the neighbor's 400 ducklings; Molly made scrambled eggs, practiced whittling, and hiked; the neighbor's cat had kittens and hid them away in a barn with a somewhat-cryptic old message on the chalkboard from who-knows-when!)