A hike

We walked to Boo's new school today: someone had asked her if she knew where her new school was, and she was perturbed by the fact that she didn't: we decided that it would be worth the effort to walk there so that she could take ownership if its location, really know how she got there, etc.
It's not too far from our house (we'll likely drive her there every day, but it's close enough that at some point we'd be able to switch to walking): but the way that the children walk at the moment it took 25 minutes to get there.
And by the time we got there, Skibo had decided he needed to be carried --- so up on my shoulders he went. And that, of course, set Boo off to: she wanted a ride as well, so LOML and I basically alternated which child we were carrying for the whole trip back.
Good exercise, and fortunately it was not quite as hot as it had been, so it wasn't quite like training in the military for desert duty....

And this evening it rained. First really nice rainfall we've had, all ten minutes of it, for weeks. We need more, much more, but it was lovely while it lasted.

Yours, dripping,
N.