geese! geese!! too many GEESE!

You know how we have black birds and little brown finch-like birds all over the place in TX? Well here it’s geese! BIG mean geese! EVERYWHERE you go, they’re there! On the side of the roads, in the parks, in the parking lots, crossing the roads! Everyone who lives here HATES them. But I actually like them a lot. It’s fun to drive by them everywhere. I keep thinking “man, I bet Randy would have a hay-day up here!” I think they’re pretty, but Canadians call them a “plague” and wish their government would have people kill them off. Maybe they could hire Randy and the boys to come up here to get some target-practice done, that way I could get to see you guys at the same time! Win – win! They should kill off a bunch of them and feed the hungry with them. I hear they taste awful, but you could eat dirt if you just use lots of ketchup.
And just so you know – I didn’t take this picture, I keep forgetting to take my camera when driving derick to work. But this is JUST what it looks like.

Squirrel!

Apple core? Baltimore. Who’s you’re friend? Me! (SWACK!) sorry – I think only Hammel girls will get that joke.
Anyhow – so we really love watching the squirrels on the fence outside our backyard windows, but we wanted them to come up a little closer to us. So now, after the kids are done with their apples, I’m lay out the apple cores on the porch rail (I’m sure my neighbors love me for that) and TODAY one squirrel finally realized the easy pickens we were laying out there for him. he came up to get the apple core, and I called Amanda right over! “MANDA, LOOK! The squirrel’s here! He’s eating your apple!!” she came in the room and was so happy and excited the squirrel finally came. It was fun to watch him eat the apple cores. Hopefully this will become a routine for us and him.

Prince of Persia

We rented “Prince of Persia”, and I’ve got to say, I wasn’t blow away by it, I didn’t even feel interested in it at times. I don’t know what it was, what I would have changed, but I just didn’t not find it to be a great movie. Did anyone else feel the same or am I the only one here?

Meinsinger Park

I’ve decided we’re going to explore a new park every day during the work-week. We went to a new park and surprisingly it’s the same spot that has our favorite trees on our commute drive to work. It’s called “Meinsinger Park” I checked it out on Google maps before coming and printed out a map so I wouldn’t get lost of the trails. There are many more trails then the maps shows I can tell you that.


Just look at these leafs! They’re simply fall-tastic!


While it is a wonderful walk, on the down side, it did started to rain. The trees took care of most of that but still I left like a fugitive pushing my stroller up small hills to hide under a tree while Amanda held our only little umbrella waiting for the rain to lighten up.

When we come back here I think I’ll have to bring the kids in their rain-boots so they can play a little in the stream.

I’m so bummed this picture wasn’t in focus. When I got home and uploaded to my computer I found out a lot of them were like this one. I need to get a new camera with a large window screen. Cause mine is broken and so I have to take pictures and cheek them in the small view box, and it’s really hard to see if something is sharp when it so tiny. So while this isn’t focused, I still wanted to show this to you cause the colors of the leaf are so pretty.

This park is actually between neighborhood back yards. Some of the paths go up into the neighborhood. How COOL would that be to have a house right next to this? To get up and go for a walk around these beautiful trees anytime you wanted. Nice eh?


We found this flower at the stump where we had passed-by 2 high school sweethearts earlier. They had sat under a black umbrella, still in their high school uniforms, sitting on a stump by a bridge, whispering and smiling. Aw, young love, sounds like something from a book doesn’t it? She left her flower though – suck-ars! It’s ours now! Lol

Well, if there’s anything good about being in the woods when it starts to rain is that sometimes you can get some very pretty pictures. I love these pictures, I think they’re very calming.

Look at these bazaar seeds we collected! I’m not even sure what tree we got them from, it looked kind of like a maple. They were in these LARGE spiky shells where inside you’ll find 2-3 of these large seeds. There’s so smooth and shinny, I wasn’t sure what we would DO with them, I just knew I wanted to take the all home with us!! Come on! BIG shinny seeds, I WANT THEM!

Just look at all the pretty leaves we brought home with us!