Bear Visitor

We had another bear go through our back yard a few nights ago.  He got caught on the trail camera.  All he did was knock the salt block off the stump.  Thankfully, he left our garden alone.  A couple years ago, another bear had fun eating our watermelon.   

Kora's sunflower

Kora got a sunflower from Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) in the spring that she started from a seed in a cup at the preschool.  We later transplanted it to the garden.  It grew amazingly tall.  It finally has a flower on it, so the kids took their picture in front of it.  You can see how tall it is, as it towers over the corn. 

 

Big Bog Camping Trip

We went camping at the Big Bog State Recreational Area on the Upper Red Lake this past weekend.  When we got there on Saturday, it was really hot so we spent the majority of the afternoon in the lake.  On Sunday morning, everyone wanted to climb the fire tower.  It was very windy that morning, which made the last few flights of stairs more interesting to climb.  Jesse and Jason counted the steps, 139 of them.  Kora walked all of them up and down without being carried. 

Megan and Jason thought it was so fun that when we

got back to the bottom, they went back up again

so we could get a picture of them from the ground.

 

 

Then we went fishing at a little pond in the north unit

of the recreational area.  The kids caught lots of little

blue gill, pumpkin seeds, and large mouth bass. 

 

Kora enjoyed her cheerios and running up and

down the dock after she got tired of fishing.

 

We also walked the boardwalk that leads out into the bog.  Megan and Jason

 enjoyed seeing the Pitcher plants the most.  These are plants that eat insects.

 

 



 

On Monday morning, we went canoeing on the Tamarack River.  Kora also had to take a turn in the front seat so she could have a turn using the oar.  Before we left for home, we had to climb to the top of the fire tower one last time.  Kora again walked the entire way up and down.