Clan and Cousin Cluster in Michigan

Thursday afternoon clear, unclammy and cloudless. Went critter watching with cousin's son Athan, looking upclose at ant-mounds, subterranean groundhog kingdoms, sunfish, frogs, toads, spider webs, water spiders, snake-holes, and poison ivy (Athan [6 years?] noted that an ivy palm missing two leaves is one-leaved but STILL infectious!). After this, we carved AthaN-athan crossword style into a beech. Appalachian grandparents and 20-some relations present.