Work at the River

The  twins helped us down at the river a while back....part of the bank had fallen in after the November flood....Big Sycamore had lowered enough that it was in the way. Richard cut it up and the boys helped clear the brush....they were good help.

Last thing they did was make a nice woodpile..their idea!  This morning Richard and I went down there and hauled it to town in preparation of more high water...

 

Yard Sale and Pie

My yard sale finds from a while back!   The kids love hte I  Spy books....and  I thought the flamingo lanterns will be fun at the river this Summer.  Not sure what I will do with the garland, but I liked both of them!

The "pie"  that was served to me in a carry-out meal.  haha  

 

Winter in February

We had some rather wintry weather in February!   Gasconade River, looking upstream from Hwy 42  Bridge

and looking downstream

at Belle Chutes  

looking down the  boat ramp

pretty icycles along the county road

 

Eagle

We saw an eagle today right by our cabin!

 

Wildflower Wednesday

Cardinal Flower along the river bank..soo pretty!

 

River on Tuesday

We enjoyed an afternoon  at the river yesterday....Richard took these pictures .  Was  a peaceful and nice place to be....

 

Catching Up

Pretty sky 

Water and sky wre clear when we got to the river that day....then an unexpected deluge....

we watched as the river turned brown!

 

River Dog

Fun times with the kids!

One time this Summr when we put the boat in the kids there was a stray dog at the cabin...believe it came from some other people upriver....Emily was not a fan! haha

Fuzzy because I was laughing too hard to take the picture   When we drove up the cabin that day it was laying in the sandbox..with a cat!  ha   the cat ran off but the dog stayed around for the day.

 

Day on the River

These pictures are from earlier this Summer  We took the two "big kids" to the river oneday.  Emily brought her fave pet along    "Howler" haha  she even had a life vest for it!

Tyler is getting so tall!  By this time next year he will probably be taller than me!

Up below Terry Chutes...using the same blue bucket our kids used...

She loved climbing on these logs

She is something else!  We sure had  good time with them that day!

 

Wildflower Wednesday

Bluebells along the Gasconade River

Trillium something

Yellow flowers a few miles downstream

Bluebells down around Dry Creek

Bellflower something along the bluff towards Belle Chutes. really pretty

Sure are a lot of really nice wild flowers blooming right now!