the local berry patch is a great place for families to pay an extra $5 a pound for produce, and the extraordinary opportunity to spend hours in the scorching sun picking the fruit through a thicket of thorns and nettle. the sunstroke and crippling scaring below the elbows are a small price to pay for not having to deal with the inconvenience of purchasing prepared, packaged foods at the nearest grocery store. letting the kids run laps up and down the strawberry rows is a great way to set them up for an early bedtime, which means i get a 6am wake-up call in the form of a 4 year old jumping on my bed trying to come up with some arbitrary task that will force me out of my room (getting a penny off his shelf, catching a fly, etc.).
a particular highlight was an unplanned frog sighting in the carrot patch. we've since had countless requests for trips to the farm, as it is widely believed to be the only place in the western united states where frogs can be found.
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Next time you come out here we'll have to introduce the kids to the pond and the frogs who live there. We also have toads!
If the display I saw at the Monterey Aquarium is to be believed, the farm MAY be the only place in the western U.S. where frogs can still be found.
Looks like a fun day...and your family is so cute! :)
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