Social Distancing Except for Muskrats

It was a beautiful morning, but brisk, and so we got our supplies together to go to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, a place we've been visiting for years. I packed some clipboards with paper, the boys chose pencils that they liked, and we were ready.

Right off the bat, we saw a turtle. So, the trip was already a success. But then we saw some ripples in the water. "What's that?" we wondered aloud. I suspected and then I saw I was right! It was a muskrat!

Can you see the muskrat?

Do you see it now?

We were able to get awfully close to the little guy, and he just basically ignored us, munching on fresh grass. It was awfully neat!

We continued along the trail, throwing stones, having a blast. When we got to the end of the boardwalk, the boys sat in the warm sun to do some drawing and insisted on some time lapse filming of their work.

No, hold the phone in your rapidly numbing hands for at least
4 minutes making a time lapse of us, Daddy!

 As we made our way back to the car, Cassius was working on his own version of an Encyclopedia Brown story. He did not want me to hear the clues, so they made me walk behind them as they discussed the story Cassius would write.

I might publish the story here for your pleasure someday.

Once home, we undertook writing more cards to people we love, cranking out one a day at this rate!

Notice the card game they're enjoying, Lucy?

And then, we ended the day Face Timing with one of the boys' friends! It mostly involved sound effects and sticking their noses as close to the camera as they could.