We have quite a few lizards and skinks that run around in the grass and bushes out here, but they are pretty difficult to catch. And when we do catch them, they are usually pretty small. But one day I caught a really big skink and let the kids play with it for a while. It was pretty energetic and I told the kids that it would probably bite them. Sure enough, it did. I tried to get Whitney to have the skink bite her earlobe and use it as an earring but she wouldn’t do it.
July 2009
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Fri 17 Jul 2009
Sun 12 Jul 2009
For my birthday this year we went camping at Bear Creek Lake State Park in Virginia. As usual, camping in Virginia is a lot different than camping in the West. It stays warm all day and all night, and the wind hardly blows at all.
This place was a lot of fun. We had never been there before so it was a new experience for us. The campground is a little busier than the ones we’ve been to before, probably because it has a nice beach. We got all set up the first night and had some good food and s’mores before going to sleep for the night.
The next day we took the “boat” out, which is a rubber raft with a hole in it that I patched with duct tape. So it has a working range of about an hour and a half before (more…)
Tue 7 Jul 2009
Sometimes my back hurts and needs to be cracked, so I have Whitney walk on my back. She is both a little bigger than Mason, and a little less…shall we say, “energetic” than Mason, who sometimes acts more like he is running in place or jumping on a trampoline than performing a medical procedure. But I let him do it too. They like to crack my back.
So the other night my back was sore and I had Whitney walk on it. Mason saw her doing it and ran over to get in line. “Wait”, he said, “Save some ‘crack’ for me!” I started laughing so hard I couldn’t finish.