The second day in Maine the kids explored Granny Coco's backyard. The apples on the trees still tasted good and were even crunchy. Nora picked some apples that granny Coco used to cook with pork tenderloins, and later used in a pie. The kids also learned that crab apples taste AWFUL.
The amount of leaves that had fallen from the trees super impressed the kids and they made a HUGE pile with relatively little work. Back in Kodiak most of trees have needles and not leaves, and the cottonwood tree in our yard does not produce anywhere near amount of leaves seen in Granny Coco's yard. They both did a few jumps into the pile and I tried to get them to pose with it. But by the time they were finished raking tempers were a little short. I wanted to get them to do an 'American Gothic' pose with their rakes, but they would not stand next to each other. See picture below.
It is a good thing they did the playing in leaves thing the first day. On the third day Stuey found a tick sucking his blood and that was the end of woods exploration and playing in the leaves. My kids are terrified of ticks!
The tick was a traumatic experience for Stuey, but afterwards we discovered that everybody we met had a tick bite to show Stuey. Stuey would show off his bite and then they'd show him their bite mark. Everybody had a story to tell, and all related that there is no need to be terrified of ticks.
I get the feeling ticks in Maine are sort of like bears on Kodiak. Something to be careful about, but nothing to be overtly paranoid about either. In Kodiak 'bearanoia' is when someone wears a pistol for a walk in the park. In Maine 'tickanoia' is when you stop going outside or playing the woods because of ticks. Patrick
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| I tried to get them to do an 'American Gothic' pose but this is as close as they would stand to each other - seriously |
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| Off course all this playing in the leaves is all pre tick scare |
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