Thursday, August 19, 2010

Fairy House 2010

We started this one at the beginning of our stay, but finished it up right before we left. Here's a view from the back...

I just love all that bark!
Here I started trying to carpet the house with moss. This is how we left it the first time...
...and here is the finished product. I wonder what happened to our big tree in the front yard? Maybe a deer ate it?
I brought some super glue with us to make the ladder. And, as you can see, we finished the carpeting. Then, Bastien decided to do some major landscaping with the other kind of moss. I love it!

See our little campfire in the front yard? We made little benches for the fairies to sit around it out of wood and empty snail shells.

This was how we left it...

It's not directly on a well-travelled path, but it is near a documented Forest Service trail. I love the idea of someone accidentally stumbling upon it (maybe they've made a detour to go have a pee or something?). The possibility of this makes me smile uncontrollably.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Tracks and turds.

Yes, another walk. But this time...
we were joined by Jefe!
He thought it was time the kids learned about tracking. You see he has guide book.
He also thought it was time they learned to identify doo doo. Or droppings, or "scat" if you prefer. They thought that was hilarious.
I think Jefe was trying to feed Bastien some malarkey here...
Maybe he said some poo was dinosaur dookey?


Why the bandaid you ask? No real injury...but, it was Hello Kitty....