Just some stuff

 Jack's 100th day of school was a couple of weeks ago and the kids were asked to decorate a shirt with 100 items and then wear them to school.

 Here is what he came up with: on the top is Yellowstone Road made with black licorice. The bottom is the back and he has a parking lot, a large garden with carrots and tomatoes and little homes where loving families live (that's why they have hearts on them).

 The kids had the idea to go to the park and chase the ducks around with their remote controlled cars.

 We tried but the batteries ran out quickly on the sidewalk.

 And we brought some old chex cereal along.  There were a few ducks all the way across the pond.....and then they started coming in.....

 and coming in.....

 and Leah......

 and then suddenly there were so many!  They were climbing up the bank to get some stale cereal.

 And here is something kind of interesting.  Jason  traps every winter and it's usually beavers and bobcats. Well this winter he wanted to take Jack with him and teach him a few things, so together they trapped fox and muskrat.

 When they have been cleaned and stretched he takes them down to the annual fur sale 40 minutes South.

 There, hundreds of trappers bring their furs, bobcats, fox, beavers, muskrat, coyotes, mink and probably more. 

There are two buildings full of these pelts.  There are probably a couple thousand and the guys there in the blue coats are grading them.  They grade them on color, size and overall quality.  They buy them and then the fur goes to auction where fur buyers from bigger cities and from big clothing companies buy them and make clothing or accessories out of them.  Or ship them overseas.  So if you have ever bought anything with real fur, it most likely started off like this.  :)