Just another summer day

The bunnies: every day I look forward to checking on them and seeing how much they've grown. And they've done a lot of growing and changing in the 5 days they've been alive! I am sad that we're going to be gone this weekend and hoping that they're not big enough to hop away until Monday. How boring the yard will seem for a while once they've left.



Today we released the paint turtle we took from the marsh last Friday. It had been living in our swimming pool (I'm not looking forward to cleaning that out.) I think he was very happy to return to a much bigger pond. He tried very hard to escape on the ride back to the marsh. The kids and I walked through the marsh after letting him go and saw all sorts of "wild nature" as Kya says; flowers (she shockingly listed first when telling Dad), herons, eagles, ducks, etc. And after wondering through the marsh, we headed to my friend, Wendi's, where the kids swam in her pool and shot rocket water guns for the rest of the afternoon. Dad made it home at 5 (whoa!) and the kids played soccer with him while I got dinner ready (This has been a very popular activity since the World Cup has been on.) Dad is reading a chapter of Ginger Pye to the kids now while they drift off to sleep (Yes, asleep before 7.) and I'm sure he will return to finishing the twine ball lights he's making for the front porch (pictures to post later). Resting up for a fun, active weekend!