Thursday: duck

 This morning I did several errands, which included getting rid of a bunch of scrap metal.  I was glad to get it out of the house.

We also picked up Isaac's clay giraffe.  It looked so cute with its head sticking out of the box.  It needed some minor repairs on the bottom, but I hope to get another picture tomorrow.

I often find myself categorizing summers - one summer was playgrounds and bakeries, one was games, one was puzzles.  This summer it would just be contentment.  Isaac could often be found reading his book.  Joshua was often reading or putting together Legos.

I used a strap wrench to open a jar.  I think this is the first jar that no one could open and we had to resort to drastic measures.

We started an at home escape room.  We're pretty bad at this one, but we're having fun.  We've all agreed to try, but also to give ourselves a lot of grace and look at the hint cards as needed.

And that brings us to the duck.  This story actually happened last night.  We were watching "Daily Dose of Internet", which has a collection of interesting videos.  The narrartor said, "You'll never guess the reason for this accident..."  as the video was showing a car crash.  I said, "Duck!"  ...and then the video panned to a mamma duck with several ducklings.  Everyone was in awe and Ben paused the video to ask if I had already seen the clip.  (I hadn't.)  I do feel as though I've had to wait for a duck recently though.  I also saw a turtle crossing the road a few months ago, but on my return trip there was no dead turtle so it must have made it across.