A Nature Walk That Ends Up With Me Begging For Money, So Make Sure To Read All The Way To The End

Last Monday the kids were out of school.  Not last Monday like yesterday.  No, yesterday they had early out day.  As they do this entire week.  The Monday before yesterday's Monday they just flat out had no school.  Yeah.  I know.  Anyhoo, the weather was beautiful.  We needed to get out of the house.  Zac needed to take some measurements at the bird refuge for his Eagle Scout Project.  So we called up some friends and went for a walk.

There are 2 of these observation blinds where people can sit and watch birds.  Ideally they would sit unobserved by the fowl so that the birds wouldn't mind getting up close and personal.  But as you can see, the camo netting is quite dilapidated and is completely missing on the second blind.  Hence the Eagle Scout Project: Acquiring and hanging new netting.

Emily helping Zac take measurements.  I tried to help but, well, I am just his mom and I have no idea how to even begin to take measurements or anything else for that matter.

Addy and Naomi

This is what April did.  Right at the beginning of our walk, she showed the girls how to strip the floaty feathery stuff off of the cattails and so throughout the entire walk the girls were, well, stripping off the floaty feathery stuff from the cattails.  It was a pretty big choking nasal assaulting hair sticking to mess.

It was so beautiful and I was trying to get my kids to let me take some pictures of them but they would not for one second be serious or stand where I was trying to get them to stand.

April was able to get Naomi to pose for a picture with her.

Zac is trying to get his Eagle Scout Project done and over with and accomplished and paperwork done and  filed and earned before the end of the year.  Because this year is the 100th year of the Eagle Scout Award and there is a special Eagle Scout patch for this year.  He is not having luck getting stores or suppliers to donate the netting so he is going to have to start asking for donations.  If anyone would like to donate any amount to his Eagle Project, it would be greatly appreciated.  Just let me know.