Another exciting day on the playground

As I was playing with Ryan on the playground I found something. It was kind of gross so I decided to take Ryan back to the other playground where it was "safer". Then I thought about going inside without telling anyone about it. I think maybe this can be considered a cultural misunderstanding...


That indeed is a small child behind the sausage. And yes it is indeed hanging from the play-set. Jesse made the comment of "Why would you put it there? It won't be in one piece when you come back. Unless an act of God intervenes." Not to mention it is slightly unsanitary. Someone did end up moving it to the fence. And then the play-set got sprayed with Lysol. Oh the joys of cultural differences ;) Maybe we can get his recipe?

Murder...

I woke up this morning and found this poor helpless fellow lying on the ground.

Notice the puncture wounds made by a small finger. And the possible bite missing.

And then we found the crime scene.

I thought he was a little quiet this morning. The fan is under our table and he can reach much farther up onto the table then I remember.

Could this hoodlum be responsible?

Perhaps

I often go walking

Jesse and I always manage to see some pretty interesting things on our walks. Perhaps this is Heavenly Father's way of encouraging us to continue?

The real reason for the walk. I wanted a picture of this sign. It is on the road leading into our complex. Can anyone spot the grammatical/spelling error?

Then we saw a deer...

Nope, make that 5 deer

Plus one stag

Wait dad!!

Cute boys walking side by side

These are the random woods by our house. The trees are in oddly straight rows. Anyone know why?

This is a new addition to the woods. It is spray painted onto the sidewalk.

Then we found crickets

If you enlarge this picture you will see that a person is walking their Great Dane using a golf cart. Strange...

(Jesse) Now if you pull out your 3D glasses for this one, you will see... oh, wait. Still 2D. This was a sample of toad leather we found on the trail. Yum!(end Jesse)

Sticks!

And then there was this. Well really we saw it first, but it was fun to save the pictures until last.

What is this? Anyone know?

Not a raccoon or a vole or a shrew... wrong climate for a mountain beaver. Ondatra zibethicus perhaps? If so why is it 10 people-walking minutes from the lakes? And why is it sitting in the tree in the middle of the day, eating leaves? We may have seen one of these earlier this summer on one of the walks around the pond at my in-laws.

Mom, what is that?

Here is a picture of its foot if that helps identify it.

This is a picture from a walk today. It is a squirrel eating a mushroom.