Salmon Release

On a Saturday morning adventure, we headed to Mt Hood Community College to release salmon into the wilds of the pond with Wildlife Stewards club at Deep Creek.

We never miss a chance to turn an ordinary adventure into an extraordinary one... so we parked some distance away and had to break new trails to get to the group. Challenges are fun, so we took the hill on in as many ways as possible from every direction. Trinity posed for the pictures.

Mr Chambers brought buckets of baby Salmon and all the kids took turns releasing cup fulls into the water and teasing the ducks.

More Maaco Fun

Creativity... all that is necessary to turn any place into a GREAT place at any time. A little sunshine doesn't hurt.

Do all kids find the stuff grown-ups think of as "piles of junk" so much fun? The kids love the scrap piles, discarded tires & broken chairs. I can't count how many "treasures" we've found or can't let go of. I can't help thinking it's better than buying more stuff!! There's plenty to play with already!

Fracture

Going to the doctor with mom, two brothers and a sister is a joy Shad was able to experience Thursday after his pinky finger swoll up all black and blue from a basketball game of Knock Out.

To say there was a little climbing, jumping, videoing, fighting, and glove-blowing-up just doesn't capture the full extent of 5 people crammed in a teeny tiny space during dinner time, but it's a start. The grand finale was when the doc showed up and declared an X-ray was needed and then we all enjoyed watching Shad get a splint. He really played the poor-guy to the extreme, but he was excessively teased.

The pictures were mostly shot by Aidan using my camera that has a busted screen, so it's a guess what's being captured. The puppy faced Shad was taken with my new phone. I don't remember if I knew Aidan was videoing the doctor or not. Shad was obviously tired of his theatrics, but that only egged Aidan on. I think I have 20 pictures of this visit. And 8 videos.

Shad still won't admit that he likes the splint or gets any comments at school.

SEVEN!

On February 27th Dwight dropped by to visit. We were very happy to see him and chat. It was really cool when he helped us anxious parents calm down and let Orange deal with having kittens. We were nearly beside ourselves wondering what to do, how to help and how many were coming! Dwight had to leave after #3 or #4 (not sure the number was a memorable factor in his visit) so he didn't know 'til days later that Orange was quite busy for hours... 'til she delivered SEVEN little mew-ers. All orange except for one lil' rebel grey. All healthy. All happy in Trinity's closet. Orange seems to know what to do with them all. She's a great momma. It's a mystery.

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