For those of you in the Rochester area, if you're looking for family field trips as spring approaches keep your eye on Springdale Farm. They shear sheep in the spring. Very fun!
Cummings Nature Center taps maple trees.
And did you know that Lollipop Farm has a summer camp? If you have a local SPCA or Humane Society with tours and educational programs I think that you'll find it an inspiring marriage of mercy and justice. It's also a place to ponder the God of creation.
The Celts had things to say about creation, too.
My bringing up Lollipop is because we're still taking puppy classes (Ellie, Nyah, and I and assorted family spectators). The puppies (dogs - probably pushing 50 pounds a piece) just turned 9 months .
After 6 months of classes, 26 on-leash skills later and (I thought) fast approaching the miraculous possibility of off-leash ... Did you know that that puppies can zone out and totally forget EVERYTHING you ever thought they knew?
"Sit? Say that again? Did you teach us that? You never taught us that..."
Turns out there's such a thing as puppy adolescence and guess what, folks, we're there! This is where we find out if Mom has moxie (times two exponentially).
Flashback times five . . . Sigh...
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I was so excited to tell Bryn about the Lollipop camp, but she says she doesn't want to go because she doesn't like being away from home without us. I hope she'll change her mind.
ReplyDeleteShe's got lots of time.
ReplyDeleteOur 4-H club, (maybe even our home school group?) did at least one tour down there.