Time to think about a spring garden!

 The weather is so much nicer now.  Got a pumpkin to put out back and that smaller pumpkin, Fernando and Eva bought it last year!!!  It has lasted all this time!

Some plants from our trip to a nearby nursery yesterday.

Guillermo spent a good bit of time at the nursery yesterday picking out these seed packets.

September Happenings

 Scenes from a Face Time with Scotty

Leo keeping busy while we fix dinner

These two love working together out in the garden.

A quick trip to the park again.  It was surprisingly cool this day.  I was wearing shorts and was sleeveless!  So here I'm sitting in the car staying warm.

It just is so amazing that Leo is learning how to read and write.  When he makes a really nice letter, I always take a picture of it.

A guided draw.  Here they are about to draw a salamander.

Here's how his came out.  It's actually Bruni from the movie "Frozen", which we have never seen.

We all just had a great dinner at Fernando and Eva's house, played a little soccer in the back yard, and here we are getting ready to pull out of their driveway to go back home.  We won't get together again, as we had been doing, for about a month.

August Happenings

 Our trips to nearby parks have come to an end.  School started online August 12 so that means we cannot go during the week anymore.  We tried going to a park this past Sunday, but although we were always able to keep a good distance from everyone there, there were just too many people to make it a comfortable visit.  

Our last trip to a park during the week was a good one, although it was VERY hot that morning with not much of a breeze.  But we're glad we took that last weekday trip.  Leo had fun looking for and catching frogs and he also tried learning how to skip rocks in the water.  We left the river's edge after a little while and headed to a Fossil Trail where it was surprisingly so much cooler because it was mostly in the shade.  We had fun on that trail looking for interesting rocks and trying to find the micro fossils.

In the picture below, Leo is standing on El Verde Rd. in front of where our house used to be.  That tree was in our front yard.

We spent lots of happy times this past summer on these rocks having breakfast and feeding the fish.  In the Spring, these rocks were off limits because of all the rain.  Where they are sitting would have been the top of a waterfall.

Another day we took a short hike to a different area of the park and we stopped here to rest.  It was very hot!

Then Guillermo and Leo took a trail down to the upper part of that river shown in the picture above.  I waited on top - in the shade!

This was Leo's absolute most favorite activity - looking for and catching things in the water.

This spider was in our back yard for a while and then one day, he moved onto our deck!

Guillermo set a trap to catch a dove so that Leo could see the dove up close, but instead an opossum ventured into the trap.  That was just as exciting!

So here is Leo doing online school at our house.  We have him every Friday.  I have thoroughly enjoyed being able to help him be online and I enjoy getting to see the teacher and the other kids.

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