It served us very well throughout the Winter but it was hard to find a time to clean it up because it was always hot.
Protected: Cool Duplo Project #35 – A New Son
Baby Robins are doing great
I don’t see the third one but I didn’t want to intrude too much.
Cool Lego Project #2 – Rope Climbing Robot
My son is 5, Mindstorms are too complicated to investigate but… By hacking a wire straight to a battery, it’s easy to explain to him how to apply power to a motor. No indirection from the programming or the brick, simply energy applied to motors.
With this you can make a simple car:
It’s been great fun to watch him figure out how various gears work. Now for the project, we simply turned this car into a robot which climbs up a string.
Cool Lego Project #1 – Paper Bending Machine
Simply run the paper through a couple of interlocked gears, the result is way more fun than it should be.
This one is powered by induction (a motor with a handle is manually turned to generate electricity for the other motor).
Potable verdict
We just got the test results from the well, we can drink it 🙂 This is huge for us. No more bottled water, almost a year in.
The first glass of water we drank and are still alive to talk about
Having a well is amazing and we are becoming quickly dependent on it. We use a lot more water because it’s easier to get. Watering the garden, longer showers, laundry, anything goes now 🙂
Surprisingly efficient way to do laundry, and so much better than wasting time and money at the laundromat
With the nice weather back and easier access to water, we’re enjoying luxurious showers.
When we had just moved in, I noted there were 3 things our household didn’t support:Â potable water, laundry and reliance on gas to power tools. The well allowed us to eliminate 2 of the 3, with the 3rd one still unlikely to go away anytime soon.
Morels
We tried to find them for weeks to no avail. Finally Matt was kind enough to show us the spot where he had found them on our land.
Cool Duplo Project #34 – Eight Legged Freak Dinosaur
Better shot of the Robin eggs
I’ll go take a look at the nest tomorrow, they’re most likely all out by now. Mama Robin is getting used to us and doesn’t fly away until we’re very close now.
I spy mama Robin
