August days

Enjoying the summer. We're getting to the lake a lot and I'm planning next year's homeschool curriculum...with the help of Flower the cat!

Boy Scouts canoeing

The troop has been doing some canoeing work on the merit badge and also practicing for a big canoe trip they will be doing next months.

Boy scouts doing some shooting

Shooting lessons with the Boy Scouts. Tristan did really well.

Kayaking on the lake

It's always fun when our friends the Petriel's visit with their kayak's. Today the kids all went kayaking together and stayed out for a long time having fun.

Are those boys trying to attach themselves and catch a ride with me?

Mountain Horned Dragon babies!

A very exciting thing happened over winter/spring 2013. Our mountain Horned Dragon lizard named Aran laid some eggs. This might not sound too odd but we'd had Aran for well over a year at this point and also we thought Aran was a boy! It turns out that Aran is a girl and also that Mountain Horned dragons can lay fertuile eggs a year or more after having seen a mate. We didn't think the eggs would hatch, where there is a chance however slim I feel we should give life a chance so we researched this and left the eggs as they would need to be IF baby lizards were indeed inside. Later we candelled them and found there was indeed something inside. Months later towards the end of may and first half of June various eggs hatched and out came teeny tiny mountain horned dragons! Eventually 12 babies hatched although one did not live past a couple months old. Most of the others went to the reptile store and were soon bought be happy new families. We kept one baby. her name is Elle. We call her that because not wanting to name lizards too soon (not knowing which we'd keep and if they were boys or girls) I just called them L1, L2, L7....... for Lizard 1,2....I believe a facebook friend started us on that naming trend. So when we kept our one baby her name was already L, the only L left= Elle! We would have loved to keep them all but the thought of so many lizards, who would each need their own large terrarium when grown, well it just wasn't very practical so we kept just our one "L". It was a wild ride, lots of fun and a little sadness too. Raising baby "dragons" never would have guessed we'd get such an opportunity, it happened and we were glad.