Turtles at Scout Camp

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Bunny found this baby red-eared slider turtle at the river when the whole family visited our scout last week at scout camp.

Cute Ducklings

We had 16 ducklings shipped to our house a while ago and I forgot to post their adorable picture. They are fun to take around to the pill bug stashes under logs and see them gobble them up. Can you say free food? =)

The Pioneers are on their way

We woke up super early (4:45 a.m.) to catch the first of two buses. They were both excited and really fit the part. Aren't they picture perfect?

The Book Arrives

The book The Dragon Lords has arrived sooner than expected. The author waited until I came home today to open the package! She was so excited. We took it to the YW dessert auction to raise money for girls camp.
Everyone was very interested in seeing it and holding it. It was definitely lots of fun. Lots of praise and oohs and aaahs. She had big smiles practically the whole time.
I worked with her on the cover and some editing. It is only a proof copy, however, it is so fun holding it. The cover was fun to figure out how much space we had for the spine and all. Well enough talk here is the picture.

Mother Nature

Joplin which is in the news though is just 3 hours away from where we are and they were hit with a major tornado. We have a good bit of Ozark hills which seem to keep us fairly protected by the times storms come across from the Mid-West to our area. We did sleep downstairs last night though.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24weather.html
We will have more thunderstorms coming through tonight and tomorrow. They remind me of a reunion when we were up on the "top" of the Colorado mountains and it thundered and boomed all night. The storms almost all seem like that—in your face—and if you didn't believe in God you better repent. They seem very powerful and are amazing, but a bit scary. I say a lot of prayers to get a pulse on our situation. I usually get an okay and so I don't worry. Yet, I always feel nervous, well nervous until I get the "you'll be alright". Then it is just a matter of getting through the feeling of helplessness during the power of the storm as the lightning cracks and the thunder booms.

The Queen doesn't take storms very well at all. However, it is what it is and we live with it.

What is amazing to me is that the area is used to all the water coming down in this area and so it moves on out and has a place to go. Then the sun comes out and it dries up quite a bit and you are "back to normal" minus a bit of your dirt road or drive way washed down the hill.

Stories just my size

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Reading is fun especially when they are made for your hands. Pierre and his "I don't care" episode garnered the most reading. Maurice Sendak wrote many fun stories.

Nature's Friends

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The knight found a couple of friends to show off.