Hiking Around Paul Ronning’s Land

Karen Allen Pausing before jumping creek During our visit to the Birmingham area, we stopped by Karen’s brother’s land to help him find his property’s survey markers. We were down in the area for a rock hounding trip for Karen and Katie Beth. 

Paul’s land is 40 acres that is mostly woods with small creeks running here and there. He is slowly clearing the land of undesirable under growth.  He has some really nice trees on some parts of the land and the land is mainly flat with a ridge line on one side. 

We took our GPS units preloaded with waypoints for the corners of Paul’s property.  We had visited Paul’s land before and had found one of the markers, but Paul didn’t believe it was correct. Today, the GPS confirmed the location and helped us find the other interior corner of the property. 

All of the hiking around had sure tired Paul. Katie Beth would like to explore more of the land, but she may have enjoyed Paul bringing her wafer cookies even more so. Karen really enjoyed helping her brother. 

Compose Yourself: FREE Family Concert

We had a fun morning with Huntsville Symphony Orchestra as they put on a free concert to introduce child to the symphony entitled: “COMPOSE YOURSELF: An interactive introduction to the orchestra”.  The event started with many musically activities from musically chairs lead by the string instruments to meetings the conductor.

Katie Beth liked the narrator that danced as visual interpretation of the music while describing it.

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