Weekend Wilderness

This past weekend was a fun wilderness weekend for Aspen!  Its nice to live just on the outside of town....still close to all the stores without having to drive awhile to get somewhere, and still far enough out that we enjoy all the wildlife around.....and peace and quiet!
Aspens first little encounter was with a chipmunk.  I found the poor thing swimming in the pool.  The little guy would swim a bit and then float, swim a bit and then float.  I quickly dropped everything and ran for the pool net.  And Aspen right behind me to see what was happening. lol
I scooped up the chipmunk and it was literally lifeless....I was praying this little guy wouldn't die.   I'm a softy for animals!!!  He jsut lay on his side on the net not moving at all.  I brought him over to the trees and lay the net down on the grass.  Aspen jsut crouched down and watched, pointing and saying "tiny".  lol  It was too cute. We got him Aspen's old baby blanket to cover him cause he was shivering.  We picked him up in the blanket and put him on the grass in the sun.  Poor thing jsut lay there still.....this is after about 10 mins.  Aspen wanted to touch him the whole time!

Here is little "Chippy", as we called him, recovering from the pool.  Happy to say that he did recover after about a half hour and slowly took off as we sat and watched him.  Aspen CRIED when he left!!! LOL!!  So funny and cute!

Next little critter Aspen enjoyed watching was a catapillar.  Something Im not very fond of, but I dont want to show her my little fear of bugs, so I kept telling Aspen "wow, look how beautiful the catapillar is"....meanwhile im cringing inside.

Here is Aspen tryin to feed the catapillar strawberries!! lol

tryin to feed a catapillar that is on a leaf

Aspen tryin to feed me a strawberry.....the one she just tried to feed the catapillar

Aspen also got to see the baby chipmunks that live in our front yard (but we couldnt' get close enough to take any pics....they quickly hide), she finally got to see the hummingbird that feeds in our front window....Vince tried to take a pic of this beautiful bird but he's not fast enough! lol  She saw a woodpecker feeding on bugs in the grass in the early morning, and a "walking stick" bug....but the poor little guy was already dead in a bucket of water.  And the bunnies that come and go all day long. 

What a fun weekend Aspen had.....all the wildlife, all the company we had both days and the fun she had playing with the kids too.

NL xoxo