How to Dye Easter Eggs Naturally

Here is my blog post from last year about how to dye Easter eggs naturally:

This was a lot more fun than buying dye and making the eggs that way, plus the colors were amazing and much lovelier.

The naturally dyed Easter eggs we made turned out beautiful! I love the colors and the patterns the natural dyes imprinted on the eggs. I was able to compare our dyes with the girls' grandma's store bought dyes and I have to say that the natural dyes are well worth the time, as the colors are so much more vibrant, realistic, and healthy! Here is what I used to achieve the dyes:

A Great Place to Fly a Kite

Kids can fly kites too!

Maxwelton beach is often windy and makes a great place to fly a kite. Like most waterfront locations on Whidbey Island, the sea breeze makes it ideal for kite flying. Add in a playground, sandy beach, BBQ, and picnic tables and you have special place indeed.

Also, try Fort Casey, Freeland Park, & Double Bluff Beach

There is a Kite Club of Whidbey the Whidbey Island Kite Fliers. Some evens of note on their calendar are:
June 21 - WIKF Club Fun Fly 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fort Casey
July 19 - WIKF Club Fun Fly 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fort Casey
Aug 16 - 17 - Cutting Edge Kite Summer Heat Sportkites, Ocean Shores, WA
Aug 16 - WIKF Club Fun Fly 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fort Casey
Aug 18-24 - WA State Intl Kite Festival (WSIKF) Long Beach, WA www.kitefestival.com
Sept 13-14 - UP Your Wind Kite Festival, Pacific Beach, WA
Sept 15 - WIKF Club Fun Fly 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fort Casey
Sept 20-21 - Whidbey Is Kite Festival. Camp Casey, WA www.whidbeykites.org
This will be fun ~~~ Sept 20-21 - Whidbey Is Kite Festival. Camp Casey, WA www.whidbeykites.org

How and why to bury a trampoline in the ground part 2

We love our buried trampoline. The girls can safely run right on and off of it. Even when one of them tumbles off they get up unharmed. And we don't need to lift them up and down from the trampoline at their every whim, they just enter and exit as they like.

It is important to have grass planted around the trampoline, as you do not want the kids tracking dirt or wood chips onto the trampoline every time they get on it. That was something that we had to deal with last fall and winter while the grass grew in. We are now in the process of seeding the path to the trampoline too. What a pleasure to have a beautiful, grassy area around the trampoline to sit and relax in!

To bury our trampoline Luc dug a large hole with his excavator of approximately the trampoline size plus an extra few feet on every side. You could probably dig it by hand depending on the size of your trampoline. Ours is a 14 footer, which would be a lot of hand digging. He then placed the trampoline by hand and by himself into the hole, no small feat either. Using the excavator and a shovel he filled in the area around the trampoline until it reached the sides.

It looks pretty messy while you are doing it. And the trampoline gets dirty. No worries though, there is plenty of time later to clean it. You can then seed the ground as you would a lawn, all around the trampoline. It is really pretty simple in theory: dig a big hole, place trampoline, fill in the gaps, then plant grass. Done.