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Leprechaun trap

We saw some leprechaun traps in the Family Fun magazine
and the kids wanted to try, so they can hopefully catch a leprechaun.
Tyler is looking forward to his"Three Wishes"!

• The yellow pom-poms are is the trail for gold to lure the leprechaun to the trap.

• The sign "Do not disturb", is because

"Leprechauns love to break rules.
Warning signs are sure to lure them in."

• The "Pot of Gold" is there lure the leprechaun up the latter, and on to the top of the hat that will give way and trap the leprechaun inside.

Watch the demonstration video to see how
" it Will Work"!


I just over heard the kids playing with the trap in the other room
and they are saying things like:

"That's not Gold!", and" get back in
the Time Out Jar because you put fake money in the pot!" "Can I get
out know?" "Money I can smell Money". "Help, Help, Help" "I have
something to tell you." "let me have the Little Guy". "I have some
Gold!" "Goldy, Goldy, Goldy", "Get the Ladder, quick!"

Over the weekend we went on a snow machine trip, and stayed
over night at the Caribou Ranger Cabin (?). It was pretty close to
Gray's Lake. We pulled two big sleds behind our snow machines full of
our supplies! Just after we got there it started to snow so any riding we
did it was really hard to see. I went looking for the kids (Cam was pulling them
in the sled behind the snow machine) and I could not tell if I was going forward
or back! That night it was a little interesting! There was plenty of beds for the nine
of us, but with five of the nine being kids, and being seven and under. It look some time for
everyone to fall asleep. Thanks to Mike and mentioning the wolves howling I was not
about to venture to the outhouse that night! The next day was beautiful blue skies and
we went on a ride to Caribou City ("it is a old gold town in the mountains that once had
10,000 Chinese living up there", so Mike said).
Tyler drove his own snow machine the whole time!
The kids had a great time sliding down hill and playing on the bunk beds! I thought
it was great to get away on a mini vacation close to home.
Thanks Mike and Katie for going with us!

Majestic Presences

Sunday afternoon the kids and I went to the River with Cam to check the
cows. When we got close to the river I could see a big bird I did not recognize.
Cam said he thought it was a young eagle(they were several colors of brown and black clumps of feathers, not anything like that majestic parents). Then we saw another one that must have
been a sibling.
For the last month we have seen a bald eagle flying around.
Before we left the river two parent bald eagle
were flying around chasing each other and landing fairly close to us.
They made the grand total of bald eagles we saw Four!!!
They were so beautiful and they flapped there wings only a few time and the rest of the time they were gliding!
They are so big!!!!

This is another reason I love living in Grace! Not to many places are people lucky enough to see eagle out there (almost) front door!

:( after trying for to long I gave up in trying to get an image off the Internet. The image I was trying to get had two eagles soring together in a blue sky with snowy mountains in the background. You will just have to use your imagination. Sorry (I wished I had brought my camera).