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Saturday July 16, 2016
Chose today to stay put. The kids have been doing great, but
a little down time and NO car time sounded lovely. The San Juan National Forest seemed like the place to settle in for an extra day.
While visiting the cat-hole in the morning, I was greeted by
an angry squirrel who came from a few trees behind me, yelling the whole time.
It made me laugh and I apologized for being in it's space so early in the
morning.
We set up a space to eat and play games and then the kids
were allowed to just run and play. They found sticks, rocks, and pine cones on
the ground and set up a garage sale. At one point, Pumpkin asked to go to her
fort at the front of the site by the road, but when I asked her what she was
doing, she said she was standing at the road with a sign she made for a 'Gorog
Sal' (garage sale) so people driving by would come buy their items. Sadly, I
nixed this plan.
I was looking forward to not seeing other people and just
being with my kids. We got comfortable enough that we allowed the sun to see
places on our bodies that usually doesn't get any, but then I worried about
company... like the ATV riders who came through, so we got a touch less
comfortable.
We played Mexican Train Dominoes, Skip-Bo, catch with our
baseball gloves, and colored in the sun. In the evening, Pumpkin was dying to
make a walking stick. We took a short walk and found a felled tree, perfectly
straight, and long enough for me. We pulled out grandpa's handy saw, trimmed
the branches, and Pumpkin dragged the stick back to camp. Both kids took a turn
practicing with the saw with help and were super proud of themselves to be able
to do so.
Pumpkin got concerned about a cat-hole so we made one a ways
from camp and marked the path with sticks. This was amazing for the kids to
handle the bathroom issue without me!
Dinner was an interesting mix of strawberry jelly, chocolate
hazelnut spread, tortillas, and Whisps (parmesan cheese crisps). I loved the
idea of the kids making dinner, the execution needs some work!
It was a lovely day.
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