Return from California Conference

Hello!!! We're back from my science conference in San Diego. I attended workshops on "Green is the new black: building a sustainable school". A workshop on Astronomy activities for the high school and middle school classrooms, and lots lots more. We got a behind the scenes tour of the vet facility at Sea World. We saw the operating room, specimen collection, and lastly a jar of whale lice. Yes! Whale lice!!!

Here is a slide show, includes some photos from our bikeride and view

SanDiego

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