Halloween

Hannah's request this year for Halloween was for our family to be a ghost family. Well here we are in all our glory.

New Nap-Time Ritual?

We are headed camping this evening, and to prepare for spending time in the tent, Hannah chose to take her nap in her indoor tent. Not sure if this will be a reoccurring theme or not. Time will tell. To be honest, I've been hoping and waiting for this moment.

Morel Mushroom Picking

Well this year the Hannah's (Hannah Nadine & Hannah Rose), and I took up Morel picking. We gathered many large mushrooms, and I had high hopes of selling our pickings at the Farmers Market here in town, but to no avail. So instead we dried our treasures to save for future gourmet meals.


Hannah N. and a few of our goodies.


Hannah R. and one of her bags of goodies.

The mighty morel hunter on break.

This shot is actually taken by Hannah N. Not to shabby for a two year old, eh?

Hannah R. and the daddy of all morel mushrooms.

Happy Father's Day

Father's Day was very mellow in the Piehl household. We began the day with omelets and smoothies, as requested by Daddy Piehl. After we finally got around to getting out of the house, we headed to the park, for a little kite flying adventure. Unfortunately the wind wasn't constatnt and Hannah was growing impatient with Mother Nature.









During the evening, after eating dinner, another request from the man of the house, Boboli mini pizza's, we headed to Clyde Holliday State Park for a walk. Our walk was cut short due to a flooded trail. But we didn't let that stop us, we just hopped in the car and drove around to the other entrance and walked around the bullfrog pond. Hannah enjoyed copying her father throw rocks at the bull frogs. Robbie vows next time to bring a net to catch the bullfrog polliwogs, which are huge by the way. I managed to get off a couple of cute photos while on our short adventure, not so far from home.

First produce of the season. Hannah's strawberry plants, tiny but delicious.