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Nature Walk Friday
Having told DD the night before that if she "didn't piddle around" in the morning we could get up and go for a nature walk in the neighborhood.
Well all was fine and dandy for a while until we got to the CONSTRUCTION ZONE!!! Now you see, our military housing neighborhood has been tearing down the old and building up new homes. LOVELY new homes (of course we're not anywhere close to the top of the "move in to new homes" list.. ugh) and you can never really know where they're building at from day to day.
So instead of continuing down "street a" to the woods we detoured and went by the rec. center. This was okay as there is a playground there and of course DD just HAD to go and climb on the balance beam, rope wall, etc. We didn't stay too long there, however, as it was very crisp this morning and the wind was just blowing. Walking wasn't too bad but just sitting there (as I was, watching her on the playground) really got cold! So off we went.
We meandered through the new homes section and up "street b" towards the woods. All was fine and dandy here, too.... right up till we saw a large white dog running around loose across the street a block away. Now, I'm sure the dog was a nice dog. But, seeing as how we were on a relaxing nature walk, enjoying good conversation and clever observations I really didn't want that distracted by a dog following us around. Soooo.... we detoured to the left and walked up "street c" which I knew curved around further down on "street b" which would be past the dog. This would out great, actually, as the homes on this street are much older therefore the trees are much older and bigger.
We finally made our way back around to "street b" and walked on towards the woods. Imagine my surprise (and yes, even some let down) when I noticed that the construction (fencing, tarps, trucks, supplies) was butted all the way up to the WOODS! The only woods access was to go through someone's yard (which I refused to do) and there was only a TINY patch of woods NOT contained in the consctuction fencing anyway! ARGH!!!
So we didn't get to go to the woods. Didn't get to "see what we could see." Nope, instead we stood at the corner for 2-3 minutes watching a crane hoist up some wooden rafter things onto the top of a house. Then we turned around and walked back. We did find another street to walk down, also in the older homes section, which gave us more trees to check out. There was one tree in particular I tried REALLY REALLY hard to snatch a leaf from (the leaves were HUGE) but I just couldn't reach up high enough.
On our way back we walked by the area that is getting a new neighborhood mini-mart (NEX) built (seems to be nearly done!) We stood and watched the men level off some concrete pads in the gasoline section of the place. That was pretty cool. Saw them using both a long trowel and a short hand trowel.
We ended our walk a bit sooner than I'd have liked but we both had to use the restroom at this point and home was just around the next corner. That's okay, our collection bag was full anyway. We'd walked the neighborhood for about 75 minutes or so.
Afterwards, DD went outside to take her math test. Sitting outside in the crisp morning lasted about 10 minutes. LOL Then she came in and laid on the floor in front of the open patio door. The rest of the day's lessons went smoothly.
Here's what we brought home...
Various leaves, seeds, and a young cone.
(Twigs DD picked up in hopes of constructing some sort of doll from them.)
These will be great for our continued botrany study!
And here she is outside doing math...
***Note the stalk of CORN behind my DD!!!! Yes, it is a sole stalk, growing right in the grass! DD says it is from her planting a corn kernel there (from when she's shucked corn out back before) or we think it was some stray corn kernel from the bird feeder.... but that is further out in the yard, so who knows. Anyway, it is growing, we have no idea how and it CRACKS US UP!!! We know the winter will come before it gets too much taller (it's just above my knee right now, and I'm 5'9") but it's been fun to watch!***
You've been doing lots of nature related stuff lately, haven't you! Looks great! Your daughter is so beautiful! No wonder you have her pics all over the blog! :-)
You really made me laugh. You weren't willing to cross someone's yard to get to the woods, but you were willing to steal leaves from their trees? I wouldn't think twice about walking across their yard.
Glad you're having good days. I love how you end each post like that.
Well see, the leaves are all on trees that are "navy property" so to speak. We only snatched leaves from trees we could reach from the sidewalk, we didn't go into their yard. Our housing office has put out notices in the past to "stay out of people's yards" even. (We have yard contests for best looking yard, so maybe that's why.) I didn't have a problem at all taking a leaf or two from a handful of trees that are on navy Property on trees that are so overgrown (definitely need pruning) that they either hang down or crowd out the sidewalk most often than not. LOL
The little section of woods we could have accessed was all part of the back yard of the house w/ the yard we'd have to have walked through. Just would've felt weird to go walking all over the folk's yard.
It sounds like a success to me. You had a great walk, spent time together, saw some interesting things, felt the cold air, saw the sky, and came home ready for the rest of your day.
What a fun day! I can't wait to go pick fresh apples...I can't wait to EAT fresh apples! Our harvest season is later than yours so I enjoyed your post very much.
I enjoyed the pictures of the cornhusk dolls too. We are finishing up Farmer Boy, fall and Little House books just seem to go together!
Thanks for sharing.
Theresa
Thank you so much for letting me know that you are the creator of the leaf cards that I have linked to on my blog. I hope I have credited everything properly and used them in a way that you are comfortable with. I am going to do a post linking to your freebie pages shortly.
Blessings-
Jennifer
Little Acorns Treehouse
http://littleacornscds.blogspot.com/
Various leaves, seeds, and a young cone. 
***Note the stalk of CORN behind my DD!!!! Yes, it is a sole stalk, growing right in the grass! DD says it is from her planting a corn kernel there (from when she's shucked corn out back before) or we think it was some stray corn kernel from the bird feeder.... but that is further out in the yard, so who knows. Anyway, it is growing, we have no idea how and it CRACKS US UP!!! We know the winter will come before it gets too much taller (it's just above my knee right now, and I'm 5'9") but it's been fun to watch!***
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You really made me laugh. You weren't willing to cross someone's yard to get to the woods, but you were willing to steal leaves from their trees? I wouldn't think twice about walking across their yard.
Glad you're having good days. I love how you end each post like that.