Walking With Hazel: So Many Rocks.

(Currently it is seven o'clock in the morning on Saturday, and Hazel seems content with wearing nothing but a pair of fairy wings while flapping her arms up and down with her tongue hanging out, pretending she's a butterfly; so while she's doing that, I thought I'd tell you about yesterday's walk:)

Today on our walk we decided to start in the alleyway, because we were in the backyard anyway, and it was easier for Dad to take us on a walk as opposed to keeping Hazel from playing in the garden and pouring dirt on her head, which she has a tendency to do. We started by filling Dad's pockets with rocks, because we had secret plans for them, but we stopped after a few handfuls because they kept spilling out of Dad's pocket onto the ground.

We then found a stick that was very useful for drawing lines in the gravel, which we did many times.

We met a squirrel that played hide and seek with us! It started out on the top of a fence, then disappeared into the trees behind the fence, and when we looked around the fences corner, we could see it sitting in a birdfeeder, stealing the birdfood inside. It then jumped onto the garage roof next to the tree and scampered over the top, so we thought the game was over, but when we passed the garage, it came back out and chittered at us! Then it went away for good, but we kept our eyes open for it anyway, because squirrels are tricky.

We found a house that had a whole bunch of large stumps behind it, and we thought we'd stop by this house later and ask the people who lived there if they wanted to get rid of them, because they'd be perfect for having in the backyard for people to sit on, or using as a barrier to keep kids from running into the back alley when they weren't supposed to. We'll have to remind Dad about this later on this weekend.

We moved to the side of the alleyway and let trucks go by us on two occasions; the first person to go by was very nice, and waved at us, while the second person didn't even look at us, probably because he was too busy talking on his cel phone while he was driving. We thought this guy was a bit of a jerk, because he really wasn't paying attention to what he was doing.

Then we found the sewer grate! There's a round sewer grate in the middle of our alleyway, and this is what Hazel was saving all of those rocks for, because apparently it's fun to stand there and drop small rocks through the holes in the grate. We did this for a few minutes, and then Hazel noticed that there were a few larger rocks wedged into some of the holes, so she bent over to try to pry them out, and ended up overbalancing and rolling over smacking her forehead right on the grate, which made her very upset, so Dad carried her home where she could cuddle with Mom, because cuddles with Mom make everything better.

The accident left a huge bump on Hazel's head, which makes Dad feel like he's the worst Dad in the world for allowing this whole thing to happen, but we're gonna try and take a picture of it later, because it's always funny to look at old pictures of ourselves and laugh.

Then Dad went to work.