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Last week I wrote that a camping we would go. Well we did, and survived to tell the tale. Just barely. Our destination was Inks Lake State Park outside of Burnet, TX. It is about a 90 minute drive from Austin and gets you into the northern part of the Hill Country. The lake is […]
Yesterday we set off to McKinney Falls State Park to take a little hike. We got there shortly after 10a so we weren’t hiking in the worst of the heat, but it was still very warm. The trail we chose, Onion Creek [giant pdf trail map], is about 2.8 miles long and paved (we didn’t […]
Wesley checked out a new DVD from the library last week: Smithsonian Networks Kids! Critter Quest. In one of the episodes of this nature show for kids, the host builds a small deadfall trap in his backyard to catch nocturnal insects. In the show they catch 3 beetles and then held beetle races. Wesley thought […]
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Our days have already been very hot! According to the weather man our the temps we are getting right now are what we are usually having mid summer… So it is going to be a long long summer. Last year we found that a small pool on the deck was a nice way to cool […]