Midnight Musings
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Summer's Over
Of course I should modify the statement in this post's title by saying that summer is only officially over. The forecast for today had the temperature peaking at 90, which is hardly autumnal weather, but a string of days in the 70s suggests that the worst part of the year here is sputtering out, so that's a good thing.
We visited the beach several times this summer. Evan loves the beach and he makes the shore more fun for me as well. I'm more of a mountains and rivers guy, but it's hard not to enjoy something that Evan enjoys so much.
His mom took him to Farm City Day and turned the kid into a country bumpkin.
A couple of weekends ago we went with Kim's parents to The Rock Ranch, just outside of Barnesville, GA. This is a farm that has been converted into a sort of farm theme park with jump castles, a narrow gauge train, huge slides, an entire village of really impressive play houses for the kids and more. It was a lot more fun than I expected.
Evan got to feed the goats at the Ranch.
I'm surprised the kid made as long as he did this day. He probably burned off several thousand calories.
That small dot just left of center in the sky is a watermelon. The red dot in the center in the plastic bucket they use for wadding in the air canon. The ammunition changed from watermelons to pumpkins the week after we visited.
This is apparently more fun than it looks. The corn house may have been Evan's favorite thing at the park.
It looks in this picture like Evan knew how to drive. Notice the alert gaze scanning the path where he is headed, the wheels turned in the right direction. I promise you that this was followed within 20 seconds by a full speed collision into the hay bales or the other vehicles. It's a good thing that he has another 12 years before he can even get a learner's license.
I ordered a batch of chicks to replenish the flock recently. The chicks are actually slightly more than half guinea keets. The guineas are the smaller ones with the striped heads. The more alert guineas make good guard dogs for the more oblivious chickens. They're also really loud, but our pens are far enough away from the house that we'll be fine. Evan's a huge fan of them at the moment. He'll go out on the porch where we're keeping the brooder and just watch them eat for surprisingly long times.
We visited the beach several times this summer. Evan loves the beach and he makes the shore more fun for me as well. I'm more of a mountains and rivers guy, but it's hard not to enjoy something that Evan enjoys so much.
His mom took him to Farm City Day and turned the kid into a country bumpkin.
A couple of weekends ago we went with Kim's parents to The Rock Ranch, just outside of Barnesville, GA. This is a farm that has been converted into a sort of farm theme park with jump castles, a narrow gauge train, huge slides, an entire village of really impressive play houses for the kids and more. It was a lot more fun than I expected.
Evan got to feed the goats at the Ranch.
I'm surprised the kid made as long as he did this day. He probably burned off several thousand calories.
That small dot just left of center in the sky is a watermelon. The red dot in the center in the plastic bucket they use for wadding in the air canon. The ammunition changed from watermelons to pumpkins the week after we visited.
This is apparently more fun than it looks. The corn house may have been Evan's favorite thing at the park.
It looks in this picture like Evan knew how to drive. Notice the alert gaze scanning the path where he is headed, the wheels turned in the right direction. I promise you that this was followed within 20 seconds by a full speed collision into the hay bales or the other vehicles. It's a good thing that he has another 12 years before he can even get a learner's license.
I ordered a batch of chicks to replenish the flock recently. The chicks are actually slightly more than half guinea keets. The guineas are the smaller ones with the striped heads. The more alert guineas make good guard dogs for the more oblivious chickens. They're also really loud, but our pens are far enough away from the house that we'll be fine. Evan's a huge fan of them at the moment. He'll go out on the porch where we're keeping the brooder and just watch them eat for surprisingly long times.posted by Jacob # 7:34 AM 
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