Frogs & Shrooms

And so with all this rain, we now enter our "Irish" stage with beautiful green lushness!

I was out walking Shasta in the backyard and we saw this huge mushroom growing on the outside of the fence. It reminded me of a fairyland :)

And then I heard VERY loud frog croaking from our little 'seasonal' creek -- I so wanted to see what kind of frog it was but I only caught a glimpse of it swimming to the other side. But I'll keep my eye out for it and maybe soon I'll have a pic :)

Here's a local squirrel - I'm sure he's what Monkey barks at incessantly at night!

And last but not least...my flowers are starting to wake up from their winter sleep -- YAY!!!!

Big Bear Berms

A winter trip up to the Big Bear Cabin this weekend was quite the adventure. They had gotten a lot of snow lately and nobody had been there in the last few weeks - so.......there were huge berms in front of the cabin from all of the road snowplowing. We ended up needing to have someone with a tractor dig us a parking spot in the driveway - but how cool to be around so much snow!

Here's the back door!!! We kind of dug a little hill path for us and the dogs to go out back- but mostly did a lot of climbing!...and sinking into the snow drifts! The dogs mostly stayed inside because the snow was so high in the back they could have jumped the fence.

Even though the dogs were in most of the time...they still managed to keep occupied -- here is the local squirrel eating peanuts on the front rail - it was like their version of television!

Michelyn went to a Bald Eagle presentation at the Discovery Center. Didn't quite wake up in time for the morning count but they reported 9 eagles in the area - 4 adults and 5 juveniles.

The presentation ended with a live visit from Aries, a local Golden Eagle from the Moonridge Animal Park. A wonderful, up close view of a stunning creature!

Godzilla in Tehachapi

Well, hubby got in the local newspaper again! Check out the story here about the Godzilla movie he and his classroom made! Very fun - I'll have to save the actual article from the newspaper because it has Derek in a couple of pics :)

http://www.tehachapinews.com/content/golden-hills-class-becomes-movie-studio



At the end of the article is a link to the movie on YouTube - just imagine the credits scrolling to a really awesome Godzilla song - we think it doesn't play on YouTube because of copyright issues?