Spring in MO

LAD and I headed to Missouri on Saturday. From Iowa we drove thru wind, snow, sleet and rain. And it became more spring the farther south we got. About central Missouri, spring is in full bloom. Southern Missouri, even more so. They've even had to mow the yard once already. Ours is barely thinking about turning green...

How many back-packs does a boy need? Apparently, at least 2, at once.

LAD's focus was fishing and catching frogs. Kinda hard to do in winter gear, but we managed. Monday and Tuesday turned out to be relatively nice days, 40 and 50's and sunshine. Can't complain too much about that, compared.

Frog catching was much more exciting than fishing, however LAD did catch a nice fish. I have a video of that, I'll try to get that posted too.

Here's our prey. They are only about an inch long, unstretched. And they are FAST.

See him down there, way down there, that tiny speck. That's a frog. It created much joy and elation for being caught.

Tuesday we went for a drive around the ranch. We stopped at a creek and LAD had to investigate and set out "boats" and see how they would float. Once upstream a ways, he set off a walnut and we chased and he nudged it downstream for about 30 minutes

Rubber boots are good, but, whoooops, not when you step in a hole...

And so, had to take a short break to dump that all out. No frogs.

We caught about 10 frogs at Grandpa Allen's pond on Monday, then on Tuesday we carted them to Grandma Airplanes pond and turned them loose. Thankfully. I was getting worried we were going to be keeping them for "pets".