Mary-

Here is part of the bee's nest I was telling you about.

I let the dogs out the other morning and a bunch of little bees were swarming around. I bent down to look under the deck and there was a huge bees nest. I got the bee spray and killed it. Tons of bees came out and inside were two cones that looks like this. I thought it was really cool!!!

Few more pics

Couple of pics of the tiny frogs. The pics don't show just how tiny they are. The pic in the previous post of the fish are tiny baby catfish.

I have been busy re-doing our schoolroom the last few days so today the boys and I went to the pond to fish. With the heat we have had a portion of the pond was dried up and fishing was no good. We had fun puttin' around on the boat. We found thousands of tiny baby frogs also. They were everywhere!!!! It was really kind of cool. The boys wanted to take some home, but I said no! Normally I would let them, but they aren't taking care of their cat, dog, or rats so alas NO frogs.

Fly fishing on the Coeur d' Alene River

Tucker was being a good citizen and helping the rafters that got high centered in the river. What a good boy!!!

When Rusty and I were dating we used to go hiking, driving, fly fishing, whatever all the time on the weekends. We haven't done it is years. I decided that is sounded like a really good idea to go hang out for the day and everyone agreed. It was a beautiful day and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. There were tons of people floating the river and by the time we left we were kicking ourselves that we didn't bring the raft. That will have to be another weekend. On the way home we saw a baby moose crossing the road. They are such cool creatures. I wanted to get a picture and of course we slowed down so it could cross, but some yahoo decided to pass us and scared the moose and ruined my picture. Bummer!

Camping pics on the Clarkfork

This is the first crayfish that Josh caught on his own.

The boys caught about 30 crayfish the first day there. They had this cooler stuffed full. We took them back to the cabin and cooked them up. The boys tried them, but didn't like them that well. They ate a couple. Ethan had a great time chucking the ones that they decided not to cook down the bank back into the water.
Ethan with one of the larger crayfish. At one point Ethan took one of the big crayfish and put it's claw near another smaller crayfish. The big one took his claw and crunched the smaller ones head off. It was nasty!!!
Ellie and Terra's dog, Dexter playing in the sand. Terra has two Yorkie puppies that she brought camping. The dogs had a great time playing and were constantly covered in sand, sticks, etc.
Tucker playing in the sand. He really wasn't into catching the crayfish. He just wanted to build in the sand.

The first crayfish!
This is the first day there. We crossed the big railroad bridge and walked to the other side of the river where the boys could get into the water. The Clarkfork moves pretty fast and drops off fast in spots so we tried to find calmer area for the boys to play in.
This is a picture of the bridge from where we where playing.
Walking back across the bridge. You can kind of see in the picture where there is a walkway next to the tracks. It was still rather scary walking across hoping a train didn't come while we were on the track. It was a dizzying experience looking down while walking across.

Picture looking down at the water from the bridge.

We had a really fun time with Terra, Andrew, and Josh. We are hoping to make this a yearly event. Tucker has found a new singing partner in Terra and have already planned out the songs for next year. Hopefully we can work on our scary stories before next time- we had scary story night but that was a flop. LOL