The bluebirds are coming up to our porch and enjoying our feeders this year. They are very skittish, so often fly away as we walk by the windows. I hope they keep coming!
We also watched a huge woodpecker for a little while!
Category: Nature
Perfect Weather
I discovered a new recipe for bubbles. While I like the other recipe best for summer days, I think this new recipe is better for frozen bubbles!
If you want to try, the recipe is 1 cup warm water, 2 Tbl dish soap, 2 Tbl corn syrup and 2 Tbl sugar.
A Hint of Spring
The sky was clear for a short while today.
Discovery
After many days of below zero weather, I took the kids to see if the river had frozen over. I knew it probably was not, but was still hoping 🙂 The only time we have seen it completely frozen was in 2014.
Megan thought the ice was fascinating. She made a snow angel and admired how the river looked through the ice. Then she just sat quietly and watched the geese for awhile. I wonder her reaction if the river had been completely iced over.
Hawk
This hawk has been scaring my smaller birds away. But isn’t he beautiful?
Birds
We have been enjoying the many birds at our feeders the last few days.
Bubbles
The weather is supposed to be very cold this week. With the wind chill, most of the week it will feel like we have negative numbers.
Bubbles
It is cold enough to experiment with frozen bubbles!
Megan’s Great Idea
When Megan noticed how much snow we had, she told me that it would be a lot of fun go sledding. She said it was Christmas and everyone would be home opening presents and she really wanted to go sledding with Daddy and Mark while they were home.
So we got everyone ready and were the first ones at Oxbow sledding this morning. We enjoyed playing in the snow for about an hour before deciding we needed hot chocolate.
What a fun way to start our Christmas this year!
(More pictures to follow soon!)
Sweetgum Leaf
There are still a few beautiful leaves to be found! Andrea brought this one home from our neighbor’s yard.