So we finally did our Green Hour Challenge, assignment 1. Yes, I know everyone else is on Green Hour 27, but we’re doing it now. I hate to conform. So we went outside, we looked, we splashed, we threw rocks.

There is a very nice nature preserve about 10 minutes from us. We headed off for a very quick, short, half hour tops visit. Okay, so it was more like an hour and a half. But we had to go down by the creek. And then we had to take off our shoes and wriggle them in the water. And we had to throw about a million rocks into the creek. Gigglemeister especially liked throwing rocks and would have headed downstream if I hadn’t had a firm grip on his overalls. I love overalls for toddlers: the best handle ever.

Yes, the Sprite wore a dress to go on our nature walk. She’d wear a dress 24/7 if she could. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have the knack of wearing a dress modestly, especially not while climbing trees and hanging upside down.

We spent a good half hour just watching the creek and listening to her babble. Of course, with my noisy boys, we scared most animals away, but we did hear a few birds. There was a very pretty blooming tree that the girl’s want to investigate further. I had the Sprite take a picture to help us identify it when we got home, since I was busy saving the Gigglemeister from taking a dunk.

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Then we decided to go off the paved path on a new explore. Well, new for us. Gigglemeister decide to stop and throw every rock he found exactly one foot. But finally we found a nice little pond where a nice mallard and his mrs. were taking a paddle ’round the pond. We also saw about a dozen turtles sunning themselves on a couple of logs. We tried to make our way to get a closer shot, but thorns thwarted us. That, and our melodious meanderings weren’t appealing to turtles, and they bailed on their sunbathing. I wonder if these turtles are related to the rescued beastie from down the road? These turtle are our second investigation, and we’ll be heading to the library soon for a turtle book. If we can find one in the wild (not a nature preserve, but somewhere in our neighborhood, and not this big), we may host him for a few days and observe.

It was nice to be out in the beautiful spring weather. A bit windy, but otherwise pleasant. There aren’t many flowers blooming yet. I can’t wait to see what it looks like in a few weeks. If I’m not too busy chasing these stinkers to look around.