The Big Pause - Day 38 - April 18 - Covid the Squirrel

It was the weekend again and we had a trip planned. Kerry's friend Pete has taken up bird watching and has insider information on the best places to go to see local wildlife. Kerry and Callie had already been to Colony Farm but Carter and I hadn't so we got up early Saturday morning for some wildlife searching. I would like to stress the word searching here. Kerry does not have a lot of luck when it comes to finding wild life and this day turned out to be the same. We did see some easy ones like ducks and small birds but there were no beavers, otters or eagles.
Carter and I will have to try again on our own.

Carter had deemed today 'Family Fun Day'. He had a few things planned for us including the morning hike, family basketball and a lunch time picnic. He put all the food together including peanut butter and jelly sandwiches but the highlight of the event was our new friend Covid. We've named the backyard squirrel and Callie decided she would try to feed him. We definitely weren't the first to try because he was not scared at all. His favourites so far are tortilla chips and peanuts. I will have to build that backyard squirrel picnic table I've been thinking about.

We finished off he evening with dinner by Callie. She researched all of our favourite Boston Pizza foods including Cactus Cut potatoes, pizza bread and pepperoni pizza. She even attempted the sauce that comes with the Cactus Cut potatoes. Everything was surprisingly close to the real thing. Carter didn't want to try the pizza but Callie said that if he did she would plan 5 minutes of basketball with him which was a fair trade for him since he had been attempting to get a family basketball game going. He tried, she made sad attempts at getting the ball in the hoop. Everyone was happy.