Out with the old, in with the desk

Tiring weekend. During the week a shipment arrived from Miller Nurseries: Seven fruit trees Heather had ordered but wasn’t expecting before spring. Fortunately the weekend provided both opportunity and favorable weather, and we got them planted, wrapped, watered, mulched, and caged. Watering, yeah… did I mention I’d just last weekend stowed away all our hoses [...]

More misc mundane

Besides the Buffalo trip…
Kenny had last week off from school, but kind of a rough time. He’d come down with a virus in the middle of the week before; by last weekend he was pretty much over it, but was coughing a lot due presumably to postnasal drip, and sometimes he’d gag, and then… well. [...]

New heights

We went to Buffalo over the weekend to celebrate Heather’s grandmother’s 91st birthday.
Kenny is about the same height as his great grandmother. Shorter by less than an inch, if at all.

Kenny does it again

Slings, arrows, cream pies, and molehills

1. My mom and sister live in Houston. My sister and her husband actually are visiting his family in England, so they missed all the fun.  (A couple years ago they were in England for Christmas, and it snowed in Houston. Maybe they should stay away from England.) Apparently a neighbor reports their house is [...]

Next stop, M-theory

On the way home tonight conversation got onto the subject of atoms and protons and neutrons and quarks, and Kenny asked if there were quarks inside an electron. No, I told him, like quarks, electrons seem to be elementary.
To which he responded, “Then maybe electrons and quarks are cousins of each other.”
My God! Nine years [...]

Blast

Kenny’s school does a model rocket launch every spring; each kid has his or her own rocket, and they have lots of fun with it. Kenny’s done it three times now.
For his birthday last month his grandmother gave him an Estes Snapshot kit. She’s given him model rockets before, some of which got completed before [...]

Kenny and Roy

We went today to Sainte Marie Among the Iroquois, where Roy Underhill of The Woodwright’s Shop was making an appearance. To left is Kenny getting a lesson in planing; more photos here. And here’s a video. If you’re familiar with Roy’s show and the one that follows it, you might be amused by Roy’s anecdote [...]

Kid Lit

In his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner writes:
The fact is that Carroll’s nonsense is not nearly as random and pointless as it seems to a modern American child who tries to read the Alice books. One says “tries” because the time is past when a child under fifteen, even in England, can read [...]