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The girls got their haircut this month. Here are the three of them showing their do's.
Chloe enjoys playing with Loki and Lily from next door.
The girls playing badminton.
Chloe got her first summer cut today. Here she is before going to the groomers.
Here she is after the groomers.
I have been spending a lot of time out near Owen Sound for work lately. We are starting a new precipitation monitoring site at the Kinghurst Nature Reserve near Chatsworth. The property is owned by Ontario Nature and this weekend they were having an amphibian and reptile count. As part of our outreach program, I was there to give a demonstration of our equipment and talk about why we are there and what we do. Here I am with the Mark Carabetta, Conservation Science Manager for Ontario Nature waiting for some rain. It turns out his wife works at the ROM with Mom and Dad's old next door neighbour.
Afterwards I joined the group and went looking for Reptiles and amphibians. One of the Ontario Nature people is currently working on the Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Atlas. Joe Crowley is a wealth of information when it come to snakes and frogs. Here he is with a garter snake.
I spotted a water snake in the water and next thing you know he was in the water catching the snake.
Note the wet sleeve.
This little girl wanted to hold every snake they caught.
Here is a Ribbon Snake having a little swim.
A bigger Water snake, there were lots of Garter, Water and Ribbon snakes around the water's edge.
The Nature Reserve has a large wetland area and one of the more impressive old growth forests in Ontario.
There were also lots of leopard frogs in the grass.
And some Green Frogs.
This was a Pickerel Frog.
Here is a small Red-bellied snake.
Most of the people there were birders and knew all the calls of the birds.
Some lichen in full bloom.
Another ribbon snake. The cloudy eyes indicate that it will shed its skin soon.
Part of the property is an old farmstead, there is still a well on the site. Mark said if you pump it long enough the water will come.
One last leopard frog before I left for home. The rest of the group were going to look for salamanders and more snakes. They were camping at a nearby conservation area and then they were coming back on the Sunday.
Soccer season started last night with Claudia's first game. After some initial confusion with her uniform and coach-less team, things came together for her first game.
Here is Claudia in some action shots.
Claudia is playing in the U10 age group, as you can see she is on the smaller size, but she wasn't afraid of the ball.
This is Claudia's first time playing organized soccer. She enjoyed it and played well.
Angela is also playing soccer this summer. Her season has started, but it is the same night as Guides. She only has one more meeting and then she will start. She tried out and made the Intermediate Co-ed soccer team at school. They didn't have enough grade 7/8 girls, so they opened it up to the sixes. They had their one-day family of schools tournament on Thursday and they made it to the semi-finals before bowing out. They ended up tied for third out of 12 teams. Congratulations Angela!
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