Day Three: Back to the Creek and Driving Practice in the Pasture

We hiked to the creek in the morning.

Johnny always makes a rock tower. The kids do, too. The goal seems to be to pile the most rocks up. This one was the champion with 13 rocks.

We skipped rocks, or tried to, and discovered that Kinnera is very good at it!

Kinnera's mom said it was time to go so we went back to the house and took a few photos of the three grandkids hamming it up...

After Kinnera and mom left, Kestrel and Cedrus had driving practice with our old Honda in a pasture. They both did great and only scared their riders a little bit.

Here Kestrel shows his prowess at getting through a gate.

And then it was back to the creek again...


We had seen a new beaver dam on the creek and Kestrel and I wanted to brush out a path from the dam to our main trail in the woods. We hiked upstream and made our way to the trail with great difficulty. Grandpa Johnny came later on an easier route. Munazza and Steve and Kinnera and Cedrus came later and waited at the dam  for us to emerge from the woods.

We did not take our cameras into the creek so not many photos of this excursion. And none at all of the supper I cooked for all of us plus friend Blythe and John who were coming by to do Ren Yuan with us in our Qi Gong grove after supper. That was a lovely way to end a lovely day.

Johnny did get a photo of Kestrel entering onto a website the novel he finished writing at our place, a chapter a day, when he wasn't doing something else. He has been writing a chapter a day all summer. This is Kestrel's first "published" book with many more to come.

 

The next morning, the kids and their parents left for the airport, with Johnny driving. I headed to the coast to do my weekly check on Black Oystercatcher nests... and found newly hatched chicks! And then came home and took a nap. It had been a week of fun... but exhausting.