Bluff Spring Journal
February 2011
Starting off the month with a blizzard has kept me shoveling driveways and rescheduling meetings cancelled by the snow. One bright spot is that I did get to travel to the southwest part of the state with Sue Schuble (noted birder) to check out some eagle sightings. I'd say we not only saw some eagles but other birds as well.
Can you count how many eagles? We stopped at 90 in these trees and a few other places we checked out.
Eagle at Roaring River State Park
Cold Meadowlark
Snow Geese
Feb. 12th
Packed up and headed out to a weekend campout with the Venture Crew at Hercules Glades past Forsyth, Mo. We hiked about 5 miles in to a campsite near a small spring on Long's Creek. After setting up camp which included the requisite warm your toes fire the Crew went down to the spring to pump water for the campout. After returning to camp we cooked chicken and Cajun rice. It was tasty. We then tried a new recipe for dessert. We took an orange and cut off the top inch, scraped out and ate the orange and then filled the hollow with yellow cake mix. After wrapping in foil we threw them in the fire for about 20 minutes. We overfilled a couple of them and the cake oozed out a little but was still good on the inside. We also learned that you need to put the 'Orange ya' Glad You Came Cake' well into the coals or it is a bit runny after 20 minutes. Anyway, the cake was good but just not enough of it. I'm thinking on trying grapefruit next time.
Small creek on the hike into Long's Creek
Long's Creek at sunset
The Crew (not in the picture Randy Cline-our awesome crew leader, Annette and Steve Blair, Dave and Carol Crawford)
Hiking Out
Feb. 15th
Took a trip down to Lake Taneycomo to check out a Eagle's nest. A gracious couple let us hang out on their deck to watch the Eagles as they were on their nest.
Blue Bird on final approach