Mom made this new header picture for me. I didn't want the crayon one any more.

The picture is from when we did our summer study of our creek a few years ago. It was really fun! We tested the water all through the summer and learned a lot about the animals that live in it. Our creek water was usually alkaline. After a rain it would test scidic for two days and then go alkaline again. I liked the test kit. We would get some water and dip the little test sticks in. Then we would wait and check the color against a picuture on the bottle. I liked that job.

In the header picture, I am looking at one of our daily stream water samples. This one had two scuds, a Mayfly, a snail, and mosquito larvae.

We also had two indoor observation tanks. In one we watched tadpoles develop into little frogs and in the other one we had our summer guest, Escapae, the crayfish. We couldn't put them in the same tank or Escapae would eat the tadpoles. We would let the frogs go as soon as they had back legs and we let Escapae go in time for him to get a wife. Crayfish look for wives in the early fall. I think he missed us though. We also had a snapping turtle in the creek. Mom said to always stay back from him. He would give a nasty bite.