when a body meets a body...

Here is what greeted me this morning on the way out the door:




















Here is the rock I picked up on the ground (for scale):




















Here is the spider again, next to the rock:

We'll have fun fun fun til Alpaca chases Burro away

This weekend we went to Kearney with the kids to hang out in a park (Cotton Mill?) with our in-laws, T and A, Aunt/Uncle, GpaGrt and GmaGrt, and a cousin or two. The weather was pretty good-we beat the heat by a day, and the kids didn't get sunburned nearly as bad as when we went a month ago. We DID have the rear seat of our van redecorated in Jackson Pollack fashion, courtesy in part to Jesse, the incoming family member. He was spinning the girls on a tire swing, and Bri decided that day that she didn't need to drink water even though it was 80 degrees outside.

The park has a barn/petting zoo/nature room sort of thing on site, so when it's staffed visitors can go in and see the ferrets, some indigenous fish, a few dwarf hamsters (they don't smell like elder berries), and outside an Alpaca, calf, mini burro and pony, some geese, guinea, and a HUGE pot bellied pig. Briallen was out there a little bit, but didn't really
feed anything, and I didn't have my camera with me at the time. She spent a lot of time with Haevyn, anyway.