It's 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.  I've been up since 5:30 a.m., very unsual for myself; with N waking for the day an hour later.  We puddle around the house for a couple of hours. "Come on, N, let's do an assignment," was the half-hearted remark from Momma.  "Ahhh, I don't feel like it," quipped the remark from N.  Momma takes a long sigh.  Then a light bulb lights  up Momma's thought.  She scurries around to gather a bit of paper learning work, extra clothing for both her and N, prepared three peanut butter sandwiches for snack, as Momma is not stopping to buy any food cause she only has enough money to pay to get in to the park.  Momma shouts to N, "N, get dressed. We're going hiking."  See N had been asking ever since the last time we went to Paradise Road off 154 to go hiking.  "Where you and daddy, and L and you went?" N asks.  "Yes."  "Okay, but I'm still eating." came a reply from N.  "Alright.  Finish eating."  Momma finishes scurrying around gathering things.  And about 9:30 a.m. we are off and running in the Volvo to Paradise Road.  It was a an hours drive from home to the end of Paradise Road, as that's where we were headed.  We had heard that there is a dam out there a 2-3 mile hike.  Well, we didn't make it to the dam, as we ran into a fella who was, (the only person walking out there by the way.  It was real freaky for me), and I inquired about the distance of the dam.  Well, we had another hours walk to go, so we just stopped at a pond that was 2 minutes away.

 This is the path to the dam, that we were hoping to get to.

This is our nature study for the week.  I inquired of N what he could put in his nature journal about what we've seen out here, water, rocks that he was much fascinated with, lizards.  Oh wow, we saw a 5 inch lizard out there.  It was freaky.  Being out there just N and I was freaky enough.  I watch too many movies where someone is being chased and killed I kept telling myself.  It was a very fun, out of shape, energized walk.  The bugs were driving N crazy, so he wanted to go.  We found some shells like clam shells out there near one of the ponds.  Very minute size.  I told N that we are going to go back out there and camp, get a feel what it is like to be an Indian living out in the wilderness.  Ah, but of course we got some paper learning and reading completed while driving in the car.