A Frisbee Kind of Day

Heidi and I started the day with a walk in the beautiful morning sunshine. I wore a sweatshirt which felt really nice, but probably wasn't necessary...I think it was about 65 degrees. We walked down by the campground boat launch. It was lovely. Everything was so quiet and peaceful.

I think the water was warm and the air cool to create this fog bank.

The time down by the river made me think that maybe the kids and I would take a swim later on today.

I came back to the trailer and made some oatmeal bars. While they were cooking, I looked up swimming in the Ohio River and read a couple of articles and decided against it. I read that it is the second most polluted river in America, second only to the Mississippi. Sounds like there's a lot of chemical pollution as well as bacterial. I just didn't bring it up to anyone.

The kids all got their math page done for the day and the temptation was to get on their devices to play. With a little coaxing, they went out to play and enjoyed some Frisbee time out in the grass.

There were some oh-so-close misses...

 ...and then we started getting in the groove. :O)

Until Bryn made it look easy!

Bryn throwing to me...be impressed...I managed to snap this pic and then catch the frisbee.

Brighton joined in and showed off some moves.

There are these little gnats in the area that are really a nuisance. They buzzed around our faces and seemed to be attracted to our eyes. We took a break from frisbee and put some bug spray on.

Meanwhile, Brock was putting in a hard day's work "at the office".

Heidi was tied outside with Brock, but was very unhappy to not be included in the running around in the grass with the kids, so when the frisbee game broke up, I decided to get creative and I hooked Heidi's long coated cable (20-30 feet) to the end of her retractable leash (which gives her another 19 feet, I think). In this way she could run a little without running off and we threw her racquetball about twice and her frisbee a couple of times. She seemed excited at first and then kept gazing and pulling towards the river. Next, Brynna had the idea of bringing out the squeaky toy. I can't remember if I wrote about it or not, but Heidi dove into the bushes one night when Brighton was walking her while we were at the New York KOA. Brighton was freaked out thinking she would come out with something scary, but what she drug out was a big squeaky football toy that was covered with tennis ball felt. She was sooo proud and immediately became obsessed with this toy. She squeaked it incessantly and started tearing the felt off immediately. We took it away for awhile and have only given it to her a couple of other times since then. Today was one. She has nearly gotten all the felt off the ball so now when she gets it all slobbery, it is all I can do to pick it up and toss it for her, but she did have fun fetching the squeaker several more times until we brought her up to the shade and her water dish.

Brock and I decided to try to get ahold of friends who used to live in Bend that now live in Owensboro, Kentucky, just about an hour and a half away. I Facebook messaged Michelle, since we have no cell coverage and was pleased to get a response. We chatted back and forth and made a plan to get together tomorrow. Joe and Michelle and their three kids are driving over and will eat lunch with us and then we will all go and explore Marengo Cave (on a guided walk). ;o)

We are all really looking forward to it.