A Cerney Periodical

 The children and I had a lovely trip to the Insectasylum! A small, quirky neighborhood salute to the weird and wonderful with a focus on etymology. We also thought it would be good inspiration for our Halloween family costume theme of... bugs. It was also in route to the Village Discount to find costume items. Leaf bug. Blue jumping beetle I think? But it didn't jump, or looked like it had intentions of such, so I think I am simply wrong. They also had a pretty amazing collection of taxidermy. Here is Alice with the JerseyRaff (apparently what she calls a giraffe that wears a jersey? Not from Jersey, she was clear. Brock loves taking pictures. Here he focused on the scorpion, which is his Halloween choice. There was much back and forth if they have 10 appendages or 8, the interwebs show both. This clearly shows 10 if one includes the pincers. We failed. I stopped at 8. And we took a picture of the dung beetle for Matt! And shows their pinning process. And then, the grand event, Ha...

 We went again camping. This time to Wisconsin! One of many trips this summer to the cheese state. Our foraging interest brought us to learning the BIG differences between poisonous hemlock and wild carrot. DO NOT EAT FUZZ. Or do. Darnit, I can't remember (theatrical death cry). Alice sleeps in at the campsite... directly next to, and not on, her inflatable camping pad. She has a tendency to role. Brock is sleeping in too.  Or is he??!?!?! We also went disc golfing. and ate at this CUTE place around the bend from our site. No, no, we did not take a detour to the super creepy haunted forest. no, no, I was wrong, we are in the super creepy haunted forest. WARNING! Scandalous gypsy moths! Our hike had these awesome rock features that the kids had a blast on. And Matt had a good stretch on. We detoured to Old World Wisconsin where the kids got a small taste of Midwest history. Ha ha ha. Brock is riding a "girl's" bike. For reals, they made bikes where dresses would be app...