Here is my world, as a grandmother (Gma), to share with kids (age two or more). Let the fun and games begin. Caution: audio is rough due to wind and hand-holding the small camera. Levels vary; at times voices are inaudible. Turn the volume down to soften loud pops and noise.
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- Welcome friends: Gma welcomes new friends from out of the box. Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, and Piglet line up to look at a book. They take a spin, whirling in a Hoberman sphere. Finally they get into a backpack and out the door.
- Canoe - Sampling Eastern Lake: Come along in the canoe with Caroling, Joni and Pooh family toys as they sample water in Eastern Lake, a rare coastal dune lake in NW Florida connected periodically to the Gulf of Mexico. The water quality testing is part of Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) and LAKEWATCH programs. However, this movie is for two-year olds on up which is why Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet are along for the ride.
- Picnic: Gma takes the Pooh family friends on a picnic by Eastern Lake. She finds pine cone seeds, coastal rosemary, goldenrod flowers, berries, and acorns for their feast of wild, native foods. They say goodbye to the moon, night night to the family, and greet the moon.
- Surf: On September 11, 2008, Hurricane Ike was moving across the Gulf of Mexico, south of the Florida panhandle. Gma and friends went to the beach to see the big waves piling sand and foaming at the base of the access stairs. A boogie board floated in and out, moving slowly west. We imagined Winnie the Pooh and Tigger surfing on the board.
- Happy Thanksgiving: Gma and the Pooh family make some popcorn to celebrate thanksgiving with the younger generation.
- Fauna on the Emerald Coast: Walking on the beach, turning inland to the lake and the forest, see fish, jellyfish, butterfly. bugs, and ants. The fish are in the surf, hard to tell apart from the wavering waters. The jellyfish is in the inoutfall, which is the channel formed when Eastern Lake (a rare coastal dune lake) opens up to the Gulf of Mexico. Water flows in and out, gently turning the jellyfish this way and that. The Gulf Fritillary butterfly is in a round garden in WaterColor. The sea oat bug was by the sea. I made up the name from the look of the bug, which I can't identify. The praying mantis and other bug were on my outside walls. The ants were in Lost Lake Recreation Area.
- Action - harvesting, driving, building, and blowing: Starts in Eglin AFB where a noisy cherry-picker harvests Longleaf pine cones to reseed native forests. One tree has a bird nest hole. In WaterColor, there's a fire truck and two other small working vehicles. Gma measures needles on a baby Longleaf pine. Hammers pound away, building the top of a house. Gma explores a children's playground, climbing the walls and ropes with fingers. We follow a leaf blower to the end with a flourish of Yaupon holly and Turkey oak red colors.
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