October 2022 Part 2 Visiting Grandma Flick's cabin and Halloween
On the 20th we went to pickup Grandma in Dewey and then drove to the cabin. The Finn immediately gathered up the trucks and head to her gravel pile. He dug for the whole weekend and the girls joined him regularly. 10/21 we went to the Monument Peak Trail to ride the Pioneer. It was a fun easy trail. It bordered several large homes and one had horses we visited with for a few minutes. Near that same horse corral was a tree swing. When we came back to the cabin, we found a bucket on the driveway. Melissa picked it up... and found the tarantula where Grandma had trapped it. The kids named it Pickles. We found later the same day and again the next morning. This was a visit full of animals we saw: mice in the cabin (trapped 2), bunny, squirrel, birds, cows, a mountain king snake and a lizard. Grandma saved coloring pages for the kids and they all enjoyed some creative time. Melissa cleaned out the fireplace so we could make smores. ...