A little something fun....

Check out this amazing multi-url page  and when you get there, turn on the sound and click as many of the little videos to play at the same time!  Click different ones....it plays in harmony  :)  

Cool :)

Hiking the trails...

We took a walk at a local National Park today - we saw a lot of signs of animal activity - bushes gnawed at by moose, trees chewed up by beaver, droppings form coyotes and skunks...

We even had an inquisitive squirrel come right up to us to say hello until Sam moved and scared the little fella away :)

We had ventured there to try geocaching again, but we couldn't find the cache.  It was starting to get dark so we gave up looking and headed back to the car.  We will go back there and hunt for the geocache again!!!  We refuse to give up :)

Remembrance Day....2009

A few pictures of some of the activities we have done this week to commemorate Remembrance Day.  The children also wore their poppies and we talked a lot about the reason for Remembrance Day.  We watched the ceremonies on television this morning.  Some of the crosswords and wordsearch words lead to interesting discussions too about courage and bravery, soldiers and peace.

I continue to read 'The Book Thief'  as my chosen book for the month.  I am really enjoying it and very much recommend this book for Young Adults and adults alike!

Festive Sprinkles.....

A little sprinkles fun yesterday - stealing Stacy Julian's idea ;)

She's right, sprinkles do "possess a magical quality that spreads happiness"!!

:)

Walking the Amisk Wuche Trail.....

Today is Remembrance Day, and we wrapped up our studies about it this morning - while Lloyd was prepping the stew for dinner, we watched the ceremonies on tv commemorating the Veterans and soldiers lost in the wars.

This afternoon we headed out to Elk Island Park for a hike and to go geocaching.  We hiked the Amisk Wuche Trail - which takes you over the beaver ponds.  It's a really lovely trail.  We saw two moose from the car on the way through the park but I wasn't fast enough with my camera.  We also came across a squirrel on the trail who was very inquisitive and came right up to us - all my pictures are blurry though as he wouldn't stay still!  Sam moved suddenly and the squirrel squeaked and raced off!!  :)

We saw a lot of signs of beaver activity but only saw the beaver from the car on the road through the park.  The ponds inside the trail were all frozen and we couldn't see any beaver swimming at all.  The ponds by the roadside were not frozen and the beaver were out and about:

On the way home we came across these bison who had stopped for a drink at one of the ponds:

We came home and the house smelled sooooooo good!  Lloyds wonderful stew was ready to eat.  Beef stew with red wine, parsnips, swede, potato, onion and carrots in it.....Mmmmmmmm  the perfect meal after our Fall walk! :)