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| Catching toads at the pond near our house... |
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| I am guessing that these are baby toads from their coloring and because they seem land-based? I looked all over the internet for a good identifying source but was unsuccessful. If you know what they are, let me know! |
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| We just kept them over night, made sure they had plenty of water, and brought them back to the pond the next morning. They all survived. Whew! |
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| Minneapolis Falls at highest water levels in recorded history. Here, Lincoln is refusing to allow me to get a historic picture for his future self. |
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| Atticus trying to use humor to persuade Lincoln to cooperate... |
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| Not working but the other two are rather fierce... |
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| Atticus tries his typical more hands-on approach to get obedience... |
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| Hm. Well, good try -- I guess I recorded something for posterity. |
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| One more because Lincoln is here...(ironically he was smiling at me in the photo above -- see how well-placed his head was?) |
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| Well, at least I will have many clear face-photos of Atticus' and Dietrich's childhood adventures...Even if this is Atticus' photo-game-face. |
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| These two... |
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| This is what one-hair-away-from-death looks like -- I was herding and holding and verbally corralling away from the water the entire length of the walk -- yes, I looked like a crazy person. I even held Lincoln by his underwear/pants while I was taking this photo. Never never assume Lincoln knows not to hurl himself into raging whitewater. |
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| Mossy rock outcroppings...lovely! |
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| Chief Hiawatha and Minnehaha |
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| One of the many, many places Minnehaha Creek has overflowed her banks... |
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| Atticus reached gold member status in his 2nd grade 100-Book Club and received a free hot chocolate at his friend Eli's mom's coffee house. So for our mom-kid date he asked to go redeem his certificate and bring his comic-book-idea book and some paper. So we came up with a story plot and a drew crazy characters. Then we gave them back stories and flaws. And then Atticus designed a crazy machine that sucks bad guys into this system of wheels and tubes and turns them into good guys. And that was our very-Atticus evening together. |
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