Love this sign

Too Funny!!!!

Tree and No Tree

Our House Now 12/20/08: We had the tree cut down. Expensive but I saw the base of the tree wrinkling and was worried if was rot in the middle we would have a tree falling on the house in the next storm)


Our House With Tree: (Taken last year)

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And what is left of the tree:

Our Snow Day

A beautiful picture Sarah took of Peninsula Park:

Here is a small slide show of our walk.

Our Taxidermy Class Field Trip

PSU Field Trip to look at skeletons:

An Orangotan skeleton:


An ant eater


The boys and the bear

Build a mason bee house

The next step towards sustainability
Build a mason bee house! Mason bees don't sting unless they are physically being squished. They pollinate more effectively than most bees, and they live in a solitary manner. With the directions on this page we can make bee houses for our gardens.

More information, good pictures
A wikibook on Mason Bees

Portable Bike Generator for Africa Youtube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z35QOcQas4
And this instructable is AWESOME

Squirrel Taxidermy

Taxidermy class:

How to mount a squirrel
Skinning a squirrel

Legorobotics Competition

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Lego Robotics competition is over, and sadly we did not win a thing. However if there is anything I want to adopt out of the First Lego League Value list is:

What you discover along the way is more important than if you win.

So we didn't take anything home. We competed well. And we were the only team that really took turns programming, building, etc.