Rainy Warm Autumn Day Adventure with Charlie

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It was surprisingly warm today, so I took Charlie to Ward's Pond, despite the rain.
A soda bottle sailboat sat on the still, leaf-choked pond.


Charlie went swimming right away.


This is the stream leaving the pond, completely stuffed with oak leaves.


Charlie set about chewing a stick while I cleared some leaves from the stream.


Charlie actually had two stick projects going, and would work on the one closest to where I happened to be.


A little rainshower came, but it didn't bother us.




After a while the stream was running pretty well!


Unfortunately that caused the soda bottle sailboat to run aground on the rocks.
I picked it up and noticed it had a keel made of a file, and was held together with hot glue.
It fell apart after I handled it.  I tried to set it back afloat in the pond, but it capsized.


While moving leaves out of the stream, I found lots of these guys! 
I take them to be amphipods;  I see them a lot under seaweed on the beach, but was surprised to see them in a fresh water habitat.


Some rocks were balanced.


But Charlie gets bored of that.  He wants me to throw rocks so he can swim!


Yay swimming!  In November!