Crescent City

My discovery of the day was that chipmunks in CA eat meat....a scary thought when you think about it.

The drive here was a little bit twisty, but nobody threw up this time! This seems to happen every time we take this road.

Krista, Alex, and I took the little car and so we got there before the rest. By there I mean our grandparents house. We chatted with them for some time. And then Mom and Dad arrived with the rest of the gang.

Krista and I took the little ones down to the river so Mom and Dad could catch up with grandparents without us underfoot.

The creek after we had done some changes to it

There is a small creek that splinters into several smaller channel and then leads into the river. We decided to block up all of those channels, except for one. We went to work moving rock and such.
We felt proud of our work.

We were in the process of finishing up when I noticed something moving in the recently stopped up water way. I go over there. There is a baby minnow flapping around. I look around and see a couple of baby tadpoles and some more fish. And with that started our "Marine re-location program." We put them all in a pool of water and went back to work. We turn around and the pool was about empty. So we moved them to another pool...hopefully this one hasn't dried out. I alone moved about 8 fish and 8 baby tadpoles, and the other's moved some to.

And then started the setting up a command post program. This was Krista's idea...it reminded me of when I used to play for hours down by the river. I used to play that we had a camp and were being attacked by orcs from the river. AH, goodtimes.

We plan on building a tepee...but first we needed to plant the center piece. To do this we needed to dig a fairly deep hole. The last time I tried digging a post hole, I didn't do so good. I was more the comic relief than anything for that operation. It didn't help to have a dog that had bit me before running around as I tried to dig!

I've won her over to the Longhorn side


See, I can dig a post hole!

Alex and Nolan collected rocks for the hole

I collect branches

Arielle pulled roots to use for rope later on

I found a gap in the pile that looked interesting...you never know what it could have been! I had to check it out for the sake of all human kind!

We only got the center piece done today, but we will have plenty of time to work on it!

Dad wanted Nolan and I to see the tree that we'd be cutting up tomorrow. So he led us into the dense undergrowth by our grandparents house. There was a lot of thorns and branches that always ended up in my face. Dad kept moving, but Nolan and I got stuck. We couldn't get through the thorns. Did we panic and lose our heads? Of course not! We picked up sticks on the floor, went back to back and hacked at everything around us. We moved like this until we caught up with Dad. Teamwork...I love it!