Fire Safety Day 2013

This is one of the days in the school year that our family looks forward to.  Morgan has gotten too old to participate since it's only for Preschool and Kindergarten, but Blake still had the opportunity to enjoy the Safety Day this year.

 

I titled this "Fire Safety Day", but really the police and EMS are there as well.  I think Blake found the police car the most interesting of everything...I came late and took a bunch of picture before he even noticed me!

Being told about the ambulance.  The group was mostly boys and they got a kick out of the little vacuum that sucks up vomit-LOL!

Here Rich is telling the kids about the tools on the fire engine.

Just a cute pic where both Rich and Blake were looking and smiling! :-)

Blake with his best buddy in the fire engine.

This part gets some of the biggest smiles!  Rich even made a little house for the kids so they could try to get the water through the window this year...made it just a little more fun! ;-)

 

I'm a little bummed I was late because I missed the kids going through the smoke house this year.  (I was told the wrong time and Rich called me when he saw Blake was already outside...I'm not sure I've ever gotten to school that fast before!  LOL!)  The smoke house actually fills up with smoke and the kids learn to get down and crawl out just as they would have to do in a real fire. 

 

The Fire Safety Day is a GREAT experience for the kids and hopefully helps them remain calm if they ever were in a real emergency situation. :-)

 

*I covered the faces of the other children because I don't have permission from the parents to show their pictures.





Wordless Wednesday: Spring Gardens

We planted asparagus 2 years ago, but had to give it this long to establish itself.  After a 2 year wait we'll finally get to enjoy our Spring harvest!!

 I shared a picture of the daffodils already, but my hyacinths came up now too!  I love the purple and yellow together! :-)

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Simple Taco Bake

I like tacos, but wanted to change it up a bit for Cinco De Mayo last week, so I made this recipe.  We really enjoyed it and love that it isn't as messy as eating a taco! :-)

 

Simple Taco Bake:
* 1 pound lean ground beef

* 1/2 cup onion, chopped

* 2 Tablespoons taco seasoning

* 6 flour tortilla shells (8 inch), broken into medium-small pieces

* 1 can condensed tomato soup

* 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

 

Brown your meat with the onion.

Drain the meat and return to the pan. Add the taco seasoning and tomato soup.  Stir and simmer for 5 minutes

Cover the bottom of a medium size casserole dish with ½ of the broken tortilla shells.

Layer half of the meat mixture on the tortilla shells. Top with half of the cheese.

Repeat the layering process and place in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Serve with lettuce, tomatoes, salsa, sour cream or whatever you like to top your tacos with!

 

The idea for this recipe came from here.  I ended up changing it quite a bit to fit what I happened to have at home :-)

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A Noisy Visitor

We had a stray guinea fowl in our yard last week.  Boy are they noisy!

(Sorry for the blurry picture.  It kept running away and my phone camera doesn't zoom well.)

 Bear was quite intrigued by it...

...but the chickens thought it would be a good idea to hide! 

I had thought I wanted some guinea hens last year when I kept getting ticks on me since they're suppose to help take care of bugs in the yard.  After all the noise of just one, I'm glad I didn't get any!!  As far as the ticks, we're pretty sure they rode home on Rich from areas he'd been surveying.  If not, then the chickens are taking care them because I haven't seen any ticks since we put them out to free range last Spring.

April Art

Blake finished up another session in art class and had a blast!  These are his projects from the last four weeks...

Cherry blossoms

Nighttime City Scene and a Daytime Farm Scene

 

Underwater/Aquarium

 

 Porcupine

 

We opted not to do the May session because the weather is getting nice and it will be hard leaving home when Blake will be anxious to play outside after the long days in school.  I hope he will want to take classes again in the fall if they're offered, but he'll probably have to choose between the art classes and soccer...so we'll see! :-)