{"id":46,"date":"2007-10-20T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T23:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/fall-colors\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T23:33:45","slug":"fall-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/fall-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We set out to have a little weekend adventure to see the fall colors. That turned out NOT to happen be we had a fun little adventure anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Lance and Cherise are painting their house so we were going to take Ben to relieve them of having to watch him and paint too. Since we were going to bring him back in the evening, we offered to take Rachel as well. Our plan was to head east towards the Mississippi then north towards Dubuque. We went through Grand Mound and stopped off to visit my grandparents&#8217; grave in the Evergreen Cemetery. That gave the kids a chance to run around a little and stretch their legs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben Butch, and Rachel at UB and Lena Thorpe's grave\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenButchRachel20071020.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DeWitt is right next door and we stopped off to say hello to Vern. He was doing well and we had a nice little chat. Rachel picked up a bunch of Locust tree seed pods to give to her friends. Ben had to be watched pretty carefully but Rachel was as good as gold. We decided not to tempt fate so we only stayed for a little while.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben, Karen, Vern, and Rachel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenKarenVernRachel20071020.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we thought we should let the kids have some fun so we went to DeWitt&#8217;s downtown square and played on the on the jungle gyms and slides.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben climbing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenClimbing1-20071020.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"597\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben at the top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenClimbing-220071020.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rachel swinging\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/RachelSwinging20071020.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben about to go down\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenSlide3-20071020.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben on the slide\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenSlide1-20071020.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" \/>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"View from the top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenSlide2-20071020.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rachel on the rock climbing device\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/RachelClimbing20071020.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"R is for Rachel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/RforRachel20071020.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"648\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had planned to go on to Dubuque at this point but the kids were starting to get tired and they weren&#8217;t really enjoying sitting in the car for hours on end so we headed back to our house. Rachel and I filled the bird feeders. A little later Karen was upstairs with Rachel and told me to take Ben to the kitchen window. There were 4 deer right outside snitching our newly replenished bird seed. We crept up quietly. Rachel had her face right up to the glass and the deer were no more than 18 inches away. I told her to keep very still. At one point the deer looked up and saw Rachel. They jumped about a foot in the air and took off at a trot. I told Rachel they had seen a horrible monster and she laughed and laughed. Sorry, I don&#8217;t have any pictures because this happened so suddenly. Even Ben was impressed by the deer.<\/p>\n<p>We took them home shortly after this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We set out to have a little weekend adventure to see the fall colors. That turned out NOT to happen be we had a fun little adventure anyway. 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