My DD has bad allergies, and she woke up this morning coughing and generally just miserable. But as the morning went on, she seemed to improve and I wanted — needed– to get out of the house so I packed up the kids and we went to Old Hickory Trail. We’ve been there before and it’s a good place to go that’s only a few miles from the house. It lets the kids run off energy and gives me a chance to smell the earth. Not the best place for DD since she’s allergic to cedar trees, but it smells SO GOOD there. I mean does any tree smell better then cedar? And it grows like weeds here. So a quick squirt of some new nasal spray for her and off we went.
Last time we went I didn’t notice they had a small beach area, but DD did and insisted we go so we went back to the house, changed into bathing suits and went back.
I’m not a big fan of water you can’t see the bottom of, and since this was a reservoir, you couldn’t see the bottom here. Plus there was a ton of crane and duck crap on the beach, and it didn’t smell so good. Because we’ve had little rain the water level is low and there is hardly any current. But the kids loved the soft sand and trying to catch the little fish that were around the shore.
There were a lot of gross, nasty plant stuff on shore. But actually after looking closer at some of the plants, I saw some plants that looked like aquarium plants. I figured since it was all over and washed up that I could take some.
My convicts and cherry shrimp immediately went to work eating whatever was on the plants and now they are beautiful. I don’t know if they will last in my tank, but they look nicer then they did washed up on the shore.
