It's been a busy weekend again. I led an extra night hike on Friday night for some high school kids from the Silicon Valley chapter of the NAACP. Due to time constraints, it was only about 45 minutes long. We were slowed by rain, which brought the California Newts onto the trail. I had to move 21 of them out of the way as we walked.
Then, this morning, I went back and helped supervise a pond/stream study with the same kids. This is when we discovered the ball of newts pictured here. It made the kids giggle. Again though, we only had about 45 minutes to do our thing, so the whole activity was rather rushed. Still, we had fun and the pay was quite good. The group is building up towards doing a creek clean-up project later this year, and possibly other stewardship projects. Good for them!
After I got back home, we finally got the girls out of the house and took them to the children's museum, where they got to play for a couple of hours. We are often guilty of not planning ahead for weekends and letting them slide by without the kids getting out of the house. That's what we get for being too busy to think.
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