Sleep Tight, Don’t Let the Yard Bugs Bite!

by Sara Barlow on May 12, 2012

Warm weather, cool breezes, and a tee-pee is all we needed to say.. forget the house.. let’s sleep outside tonight.  And when sleeping outside, especially sans tent, you may have little visitors that like to hop by, creep up and build their home above you, soar overhead, gently place their feet as they smell the [...]

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Sacramento Wildlife: The Bullfrog

Education and Outdoor Recreation

We’ve had suspicions for over a year of what was making the big splash in our pond and we finally caught sight of him this morning.  There have been a few smaller frogs wrongly accused, but this one has to be the real splasher. It was exciting to see him just long enough to take [...]

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An Educational and Imaginative Backyard Plan: Sunflower Houses, Campsites, Gardens.

Education and Outdoor Recreation

Spring Fever has hit the Trailmix family and we decided to put some fun into our spring planning of our yard and garden. Following the creative guidance from Sharon Lovejoy in her book, Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots, we set out in our yard to build a sunflower house and a Garden of Giants and [...]

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EUREKA! The Rock of the Month Club Gem Mine Card was Discovered!

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BREAKING NEWS!! ….. February 2012: GEM MINE CARD SENT OUT  TO ROCK OF THE MONTH CLUB MEMBERS! Trailmix.Net, Inc. decided to share the love of sending mail and making people smile in February, by including The Gem Mine Card which allows members to order one previous rock for FREE.  The rock selected will be included [...]

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A Valentine’s Day Hike: Heart Hunting, Nature Notes, Bird Watching, Bugs and Beavers?

Education and Outdoor Recreation

Our Valentine adventure was inspired by Debi over at Go Explore Nature.  She has an incredible blog if you haven’t had a chance to check it out and shared a great post about heart rocks and random acts of kindness.  We took a slightly different approach and went hunting for hearts in nature. You never know [...]

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Gypsum Rosette: The January Rock of the Month

Kids Rock and Mineral Collecting

We wanted to start our 2012 kids rock collecting series off on the right foot, so our selection for this month’s Rock of The Month is one of our all time favorites:  The Gypsum Rosette. When they see a gypsum rosette for the first time many people give it a double-take.  Gypsum Rosettes are unusual [...]

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Adventure on Carson Pass: Hiking with Kids at Frog and Winnemucca Lake

Hiking With Kids

The Carson Pass area is an alpine wonderland and the Frog Lake Trail is a kid friendly route in. Part of California’s charm is that anybody with a vehicle and a pair of trail sturdy boots can drive a well maintained highway right up to a trail-head that leads into world class backcountry adventure.  That [...]

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Black Diamond Kids Headlamps | After Dark Activities in the Great Outdoors

Kids Outdoor Activities

The campground is already an exciting place for kids.  But when the sun sets, the campfire is lit, and marshmallows are roasting,  the adventure kicks into high gear. On a trip to Tahoe this summer,  we let the kids test some headlamps for after dark fun. Here are some of the things they did with them, things [...]

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Kids Camp Recipes: Bannock Bread – Fresh Bread over an Open Fire

Hiking With Kids

Bannock bread is an easy to make flat bread that kids can roast over an open fire. Once the dough is made and the roasting sticks are ready, seperate the dough, roll into snakes and wrap around the stick and cook for 10-20 minutes. Here are some of the things we learned from our campsite bread making experience: [...]

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Geodes! A Breakable Rock of the Month for December!

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December’s Rock of the Month was the geode. . I hope the kids had as much fun opening them! as we had wrapping them! We asked in the parent’s notes for kids, if willing to take a chance, to crack the geode open. It didn’t take long for our kids to find a hammer, a [...]

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