Doctor's Orders

We're home again today. Ri's feeling much better but, as she hadn't eaten yesterday, I decided we'd take another day to slowly bring food back into her life. So far so good. There was a quick trip to the General Store for crackers and ginger ale this morning and she's now progressed from that to half a bagel with some homemade applesauce. I see formal learning in a school environment in her very near future.

It's such a beautiful day out there with a good strong breeze. I hung the boys' sheets out and I think they were dry within an hour. Riley was inside all day yesterday and this morning so I thought the best medicine would be some fresh air and a walk. So we walked across the road and headed west along the unassumed road. Riley and her cousins Laura and Becca had found raspberries growing there a couple of years ago and she wanted to show me where they were. Well, we walked a good bit and came out at the maintained road on the other side. We've no idea where those berry canes might be but we'll take another look in July.

There's an old tree in there with a huge branch growing out near the bottom of the trunk. It has a fabulous shape to it - the great arm reaches out, then forks and stretches to the sky...


Further along, Riley found an old wooden door. I've never understood why people have so little respect and think it's okay to dump their garbage - I guess that's a story for another day. Anyway, she thinks Paul should go in and bring it back and build a fort with it. Wow. This could actually be something that her brothers would agree with her on. Not so sure that they'll win Paul's vote, though.

And then we followed a wee creek to this...


I wish I could have brought you the sound of that little waterfall too.

We arrived back at the house and Riley wanted to take a quick look at the bog where they skated. We found two ducks out for a swim...



Nature. There's no better medicine.