Grandpa and Uncle Travis have been working on some major projects "at the back" on the farm, and we all wanted to see! So, we took a big family hike this afternoon! It was a perfectly beautiful day, and we had such a wonderful time together enjoying the outdoors!!!
The girls found walking sticks right away for the hike.
Dad and Travis recently drained a lot of the water out of the big pond, and had to poison all of the fish in it. So right now it is really, really low, and we walked on places we usually throw our fishing lines out in!
Caeden used his walking stick to play in the mud along the shore! Great fun for a boy!!
everyone but me and Jeremy
(who was also playing in the mud and breaking off a fence post with his hands)
Gram trying to keep Caeden from getting too close to the water as he hopped along in the mud.
Caeden and Grandpa along the shore
The lower pond is also very shallow right now, as it was just dug to more than twice the size it had been! This slimy green snapper was napping just outside the water, so I climbed down to get closer for a picture. It didn't move, so I got closer and closer. Of course, everyone was yelling at me that it was going to wake up and come after me. When it didn't, they started yelling and laughing at me that I must be taking pictures of a dead turtle! It didn't smell, and it didn't look dead, even though it was perfectly still.
So, of course, Jeremy and Travis had to come down and provoke it to see if it was really alive.
It was alive, so then Dad came down and picked it up by its tail and brought it up the shore for everyone to see. When he picked it up by the tail, it finally woke up completely and started hissing and snapping!
Grandpa says, "See how it snaps?!"
the old outhouse in the lane
coming up the lane near the end of the hike
Just after this, we saw two deer run across the path in front of us!
Dad took some photos of our family for us.
What a great way to spend the afternoon!! Thank you Dad and Travis for all the work you do to keep the farm so beautiful so we can all enjoy it! It brought back so many childhood memories walking down those lanes! And, now my kids will have these wonderful memories too!
The girls found walking sticks right away for the hike.
Dad and Travis recently drained a lot of the water out of the big pond, and had to poison all of the fish in it. So right now it is really, really low, and we walked on places we usually throw our fishing lines out in!
Caeden used his walking stick to play in the mud along the shore! Great fun for a boy!!
everyone but me and Jeremy
(who was also playing in the mud and breaking off a fence post with his hands)
Gram trying to keep Caeden from getting too close to the water as he hopped along in the mud.
Caeden and Grandpa along the shore
The lower pond is also very shallow right now, as it was just dug to more than twice the size it had been! This slimy green snapper was napping just outside the water, so I climbed down to get closer for a picture. It didn't move, so I got closer and closer. Of course, everyone was yelling at me that it was going to wake up and come after me. When it didn't, they started yelling and laughing at me that I must be taking pictures of a dead turtle! It didn't smell, and it didn't look dead, even though it was perfectly still.
So, of course, Jeremy and Travis had to come down and provoke it to see if it was really alive.
It was alive, so then Dad came down and picked it up by its tail and brought it up the shore for everyone to see. When he picked it up by the tail, it finally woke up completely and started hissing and snapping!
Grandpa says, "See how it snaps?!"
the old outhouse in the lane
coming up the lane near the end of the hike
Just after this, we saw two deer run across the path in front of us!
Dad took some photos of our family for us.
What a great way to spend the afternoon!! Thank you Dad and Travis for all the work you do to keep the farm so beautiful so we can all enjoy it! It brought back so many childhood memories walking down those lanes! And, now my kids will have these wonderful memories too!
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