Thursday, February 21, 2013

"Snow Day"

If you wait till school gets out, you miss the snow, and the adventure.















Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Birds and Bees

Yesterday's Sunrise

 Today out and about: It's the birds and the bees!
1. How many lovebirds?
2. How many birds all together?




Yes, it was non-native species day at the preserve, I guess.





if you live nearby, this is worth seeing. These two have built a nest and may have an egg up there. 

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Friday, January 4, 2013

There's more than one way to squeeze an orange...

Young Adventurer was bored this afternoon. He read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I can only guess how many video games he had already played. I suggested he plan dinner and headed on upstairs. When I came down, he had the cookbook out and a recipe in mind. It required orange juice and zest. He ran out to get a couple oranges off the tree ( I think this was the only mistake--don't use oranges off a dying tree even if they look fine, I guess). He zested them, and peeled one and broke it into slices. The second one needed juicing. A dilemma, since I had told him we wouldn't use the electric juicer for just one orange. His solution can be seen below: