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Snow Along the Rideau Trail

Dec 2nd, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Even though last week’s Rideau Trail walk was all along roads and we had no adventures, we still we able to enjoy a lot of beauty.  Snow and ice were everywhere.   Starting on the other side of the missing bridge, we walked past farms.   I was amazed at the amount of vines on […]

Bridges on the Rideau Trail

Nov 24th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Last week we walked the Rideau Trail twice.   On the first walk we crossed this bridge.  Yes, it truly is a bridge, and the dark part is a hole in the bridge.  Fortunately there wasn’t much water under it, but I did not like it at all!   Although at first this section of the […]

Nature Study: Giant Puffball

Nov 18th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Recently we found an enormous puffball in the woods.  It was old and brown and the skin had cracked. At its prime, the giant puffball is a white, spherical, edible fungus.  We have seen them as small as an inch in diameter and as large as this one, a foot in diameter.  I do not […]

Rideau Trail Walk #4

Nov 15th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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  Each week it takes a lot of juggling and effort to get out to the Rideau Trail and walk the next section, but it’s always so wonderful once we get there! This week we walked about 5 km, mostly along a hardly used road allowance between fields.  There were deep ruts of slippery wet […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Mostly Writing

Nov 6th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Miss 12 started her NaNoWriMo novel on Monday.  She writes a few hours a day, with a Huguenot history book on her lap.  Occasionally she makes forays onto Wikipedia to learn more about French geography and history.  When she found the NaNoWriMo word count goals for different grades she was shocked to see that her […]

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