A weekend with thought and sunshine

Like most of my weekends this one contained mostly good, low-key things. We cut because we care.
( Friday, JMS talk at MIT )

( Saturday with sunshine )

( Sunday with hiking and birthday dinner )

Yay for extra holiday weekend days. Still more sunshine. After getting through the standard weekend chores (lawn cut and edged, five loads of laundry done, some semblance of order restored to kitchen) we got the kids outside and took the training wheels off L's new bike. Which turns out to be somewhat too big for him. Fortunately, K's bike is a better size. Between the two he managed some riding back and forth under his own power, only one minor mishap, and decided he was done before mastering the art of turning the bicycle. Straight lines here we go! The kids also did some planting with Pygment of green things they'd received as gifts here and there - a couple flowers, a bean or two. I expect they'll all be dead within the week, but you gotta start somewhere.

The kids made a project of... well, making various sorts of slime. K got a "plasma" production kit as a birthday present. The thing appears to be an apparatus for mixing powders and water to produce various kinds of slime. It will be interesting to see the results - the kit comes with simple stepwise directions for different experiments and we're letting the kids run with it. There's already been one call for the vacuum cleaner and one for various paper towels; I expect more of those.

A weekend with thought and sunshine

Like most of my weekends this one contained mostly good, low-key things. We cut because we care.
( Friday, JMS talk at MIT )

( Saturday with sunshine )

( Sunday with hiking and birthday dinner )

Yay for extra holiday weekend days. Still more sunshine. After getting through the standard weekend chores (lawn cut and edged, five loads of laundry done, some semblance of order restored to kitchen) we got the kids outside and took the training wheels off L's new bike. Which turns out to be somewhat too big for him. Fortunately, K's bike is a better size. Between the two he managed some riding back and forth under his own power, only one minor mishap, and decided he was done before mastering the art of turning the bicycle. Straight lines here we go! The kids also did some planting with Pygment of green things they'd received as gifts here and there - a couple flowers, a bean or two. I expect they'll all be dead within the week, but you gotta start somewhere.

The kids made a project of... well, making various sorts of slime. K got a "plasma" production kit as a birthday present. The thing appears to be an apparatus for mixing powders and water to produce various kinds of slime. It will be interesting to see the results - the kit comes with simple stepwise directions for different experiments and we're letting the kids run with it. There's already been one call for the vacuum cleaner and one for various paper towels; I expect more of those.