A-maze-in'

After a fun morning of playing with church friends in the backyard, during which time the four kids, with help from the toddler, made a muddy fish pond and found a fuzzyy green caterpillar with black projections (not just antennae, but about 6 of them all over) that I can't identify or find on the web, my kiddos and I got a picnic lunch at the deli: the usual half-ham sandwiches on Portuguese rolls for them and a wrap for me (with feta, cranberries, avocado, and mesclun, in balsamic dressing), plus cookies and ice cream, and today, roasted corn soup (sometime we get the cream of broccoli or mushroom or black bean with mushroom. Note to self: Bud loved the one today, with corn, tomatoes, onion, celery, and broth). We ate on the blanket under the tree in our front yard, enjoying the cool breeze and blue sky. Sis even noticed, as she munched chips lying down on her back, that the leaves on the miniature Japanese maple were turning colors (I think it was the light, not autumn). Then after a rousing game of soccer (with one net and two balls!), we decided to draw on the driveway and sidewalk, making mazes and labyrinths. I made sure each had a path through it with several misleading turns and we had fun walking backwards and forwards through each several times. I used the pun in the title, calling our creations "amazing," but they just stared at me, laughing only because I laughed. And that's good enough for me.