The Salt Creek

I took the kids back behind my parents farm to explore the salt creek. We put on our boots and walked through the fields that were just recently inhabited by 4 horses. We saw and probably stepped in piles of evidence that they did infact live there. The bugs are slowly disappearing at the farm due to the cold weather. Koby was disappointed we didn't find any grasshoppers. After jumping over ditches, climbing under fenses we reached our destination, the salt creek. It is really an interesting stream of water. It is a natural spring that connects to a hot spring. We found tad poles in the water (the children tried to catch them with no success), we saw spiders walking on the water, seaweed, and lots of smelly stinky mud (good thing we had on our old boots). The kids really wanted to play in the water. In the summers when I was a child we use to play in the salt creek to cool off. After I told the kid this they were ready to jump in. We touched the water to see if it was warm enough to swim in. It was warmer than the temperature outside but still cold enough not to swim in. The kids found sticks and decided to measure how deep it was. They pulled out the stick and measured the wet area of the stick up against them. If Camryn went into the water it would have gone up to her shoulders. That would have made for a good swim. We found a big bowl full of ice that once gave drinking water to the animals. The kids had so much fun picking up pieces of it and throughing it in the water. I use to feel like we need to drive long distances to find fun and interesting things for our kids to learn about. It has been so nice for me to realize that we have so many interesting things in our own back yards. We just need to open our eyes and look for them.