How can September be nearly over … already?! I can hardly believe it. And what a beautiful weather week we've had! The grandchildren and I got to spend a few hours of this last weekend together. We met at Chris's football game (no posted pictures) on Saturday; but since the game was a late game, we didn't get together afterwards and decided to spend some time together instead Sunday afternoon.
I picked the children up at about 2:30 in the afternoon. We decided to head on over to our favorite little creek at Townsend Park … and we brought our hunting gear along with us.
The kiddos were very enthused about it (as always) and found their favorite spots and began searching for critters to put into our white bucket.
We love this spot along the creek so much ...
Who would be the first one to catch a crayfish?!!
As always, there were tons of other children with us in the creek … and instant friends were made. I love this about children!
The water was VERY chilling … but it didn't stop us from traveling quite a distance up and down the creek in search of treasures ...
Chris was quite pleased that he found a nickel and a penny shining in the sunlight on the bottom of the creek ...
At one point, we had seven crayfish (two rather large ones!), several water bugs ~ one looked like a walking stick except it swam really well and … we're not sure WHAT it was. One little friend of ours by the name of Grant (about 4 years old) asked me if I'd ever heard a crayfish SNORE ~ and if so, what did it sound like?
We finally exhausted our hunting expedition and decided we needed a little playground time ...
Emma stood on a large rock and sang "Do-Re-Me" to me. She is learning this piece of music in her school choir ~ she loves to sing.
We spent a really enjoyable few hours together in the park followed by a yummy meal and ice cream sundaes (naturally) before driving back to their house. It was relaxing and peaceful … such a gift.
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