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altarflameI just pulled two rectangular chocolate cakes out of my top oven. I can't eat any, but they are for our flag cake and they. smell. GOOD. I'm keeping that one hot for oatmeal raisin cookies (that I CAN eat, by golly). My bottom oven has cauliflower roasting in olive oil and salt on the top rack and butternut squash cut in half and covered in butter, turbinado sugar, salt and pepper, on the bottom rack.
We had two things to e-search, today.
One - there is some kind of fluorescent, highlighter yellow growth that looks like bits of styrofoam, in a plant we keep on the front porch. The first day Aaron pointed it out, I thought someone had actually thrown tiny bits of radioactive foam into the soil. But it just keeps getting bigger and so based on our Sesame Street criteria it is apparently alive. Today we found out they are mushrooms, more specifically leucocoprinus birnbaumii.
This is about where ours are:
But they will apparently be here soon:
Which is kind of awesome...in a poisonous sort of way.
Also they are known as "the houseplant mushroom" and are apparently so resilient and unstoppable that even if you empty a planter they've been in of dirt and put all new in, they will still come right back.
Two - "pachyderm", which I found the correct spelling of through a painful process of phonetic failures. Ananda has been asking me what this word means because in Horton Hears a Who, Horton has to do something "ASAP" and he says, "What does a-s-a-p mean? Maybe it's 'Act Swiftly Awesome Pachyderm'!" Anyway, yeah, "pachy" is related to a latin word for "thick" and derm is obviously skin related like the DERMatologist who froze her warts off, so technically pachyderm means thick skinned animal, but it's actually an outdated class of animals including rhinos, hippos, elephants and sometimes warthogs/pigs. Scientists don't group animals that way anymore but the word lives on unofficially.
Since starting this we've polished off all the cauliflower, all the squash and a dozen of the cookies, with a box of almond milk - along with an entire JUG of salsa, and a whole bag of multigrain chips. I suppose this is because we just had nuts and canteloupe for breakfast. Geez Louise it's already 6, I have to start roasting a chicken soon! It is countdown to me wearing a hair net and serving people with an ice cream scoop, I am telling you.
So, it has been 6 days since Aaron got a unicycle.
Day 1 - he could get on with help from people, then figured out how to get on leaning on things.
Day 2 - he set a goal to get from the library table to the edge of the rug in there, which is about 4 feet. It was somewhat easier on the rug. By the end of the day he could do about 2 feet.
Day 3 - he made it to the edge of the rug probably 4 times.
Day 4 - he was going past the edge every time, and onto the tile and continuing the next 4 feet to the bookshelf/wall.
Day 5 - he started taking off on tile, from the front door, with a goal of the bar - about 12 feet. Halfway through the day he made it, and then last night Grant took this video:
By the end of the evening, he was going 10 and 15 feet further down the hall, turning around while holding the wall no problem, and practicing turns.
Day 6 - today - he can go the entire length of the house including the turn and surface change (tile to wood) into my room, and all the way to my french doors. Then turn around and come back like it's nothing. He rides all over the house now. We were just outside and he can go three houses up, MAKE A U-TURN, and then come back to the van with a fair amount of ease. He also passed some bicyclists who were staring to beat all which pleased him greatly.
This is his favorite unicycle video so far. The first 3.5 minutes are outtakes which I just noticed with the sound on are set to ska music with some explicit-ish lyrics. After that is the main event. It is pretty nuts.
Ok, we apparently have a third thing to e-search. "Can bubbles freeze?"
Wikipedia tells us that in temperatures below 5 degrees (-15C), they will freeze when they hit a surface but then the air diffuses out and they crumple in on themselves. At below -13 (-25C) they will actually shatter when they touch stuff. But you can't blow them with warm breath in that kind of atmosphere or else they will collapse as they leave the wand, because of the changein volume as your breath cools. Huh.
Wikipedia has so much more in it that Funk & Wagnall's ever did when I was a kid, it's free, and it takes up SO MUCH LESS SPACE!
Apparently you can use dry ice to freeze bubbles that can then be picked up and examined. I think this may be in our near future.
Ok, so...I'ma finish baking all these cookies, and get a chicken roasting, and then figure out side dishes and read my kids a bunch of American history stuff re: the 4th of July until Grant gets home. And probably we will go see fireworks tonight at 9 at the stadium. WAIT! I have to make A and A have their quiet time. Annie does 30 minutes writing a book report and he does 30 minutes reading, everyday, and we didn't do that yet today. AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaalrighty.
-Freeze and berry up flag cake, while cookies finish
-read American stuff
-quiet time, which is when I get chicken roasting
-Grant, fireworks
I don't know if I ever showed you guys the CRAZY ASS movie our friend Shaun did for film school, that has since been in a couple of film festivals, that Ananda and Aaron were in. They spent about a half a dozen days with the crew filming for their scenes. It is about 20 minutes long. They think they are pseudo-famous because it's been shown on the big screen and we have a professional looking dvd case for our copy with their pictures on the back. Anyway, it is a trippy lot of O_o, but very well done. If you'd like to watch it:
We had two things to e-search, today.
One - there is some kind of fluorescent, highlighter yellow growth that looks like bits of styrofoam, in a plant we keep on the front porch. The first day Aaron pointed it out, I thought someone had actually thrown tiny bits of radioactive foam into the soil. But it just keeps getting bigger and so based on our Sesame Street criteria it is apparently alive. Today we found out they are mushrooms, more specifically leucocoprinus birnbaumii.
This is about where ours are:
But they will apparently be here soon:
Which is kind of awesome...in a poisonous sort of way.
Also they are known as "the houseplant mushroom" and are apparently so resilient and unstoppable that even if you empty a planter they've been in of dirt and put all new in, they will still come right back.
Two - "pachyderm", which I found the correct spelling of through a painful process of phonetic failures. Ananda has been asking me what this word means because in Horton Hears a Who, Horton has to do something "ASAP" and he says, "What does a-s-a-p mean? Maybe it's 'Act Swiftly Awesome Pachyderm'!" Anyway, yeah, "pachy" is related to a latin word for "thick" and derm is obviously skin related like the DERMatologist who froze her warts off, so technically pachyderm means thick skinned animal, but it's actually an outdated class of animals including rhinos, hippos, elephants and sometimes warthogs/pigs. Scientists don't group animals that way anymore but the word lives on unofficially.
Since starting this we've polished off all the cauliflower, all the squash and a dozen of the cookies, with a box of almond milk - along with an entire JUG of salsa, and a whole bag of multigrain chips. I suppose this is because we just had nuts and canteloupe for breakfast. Geez Louise it's already 6, I have to start roasting a chicken soon! It is countdown to me wearing a hair net and serving people with an ice cream scoop, I am telling you.
So, it has been 6 days since Aaron got a unicycle.
Day 1 - he could get on with help from people, then figured out how to get on leaning on things.
Day 2 - he set a goal to get from the library table to the edge of the rug in there, which is about 4 feet. It was somewhat easier on the rug. By the end of the day he could do about 2 feet.
Day 3 - he made it to the edge of the rug probably 4 times.
Day 4 - he was going past the edge every time, and onto the tile and continuing the next 4 feet to the bookshelf/wall.
Day 5 - he started taking off on tile, from the front door, with a goal of the bar - about 12 feet. Halfway through the day he made it, and then last night Grant took this video:
By the end of the evening, he was going 10 and 15 feet further down the hall, turning around while holding the wall no problem, and practicing turns.
Day 6 - today - he can go the entire length of the house including the turn and surface change (tile to wood) into my room, and all the way to my french doors. Then turn around and come back like it's nothing. He rides all over the house now. We were just outside and he can go three houses up, MAKE A U-TURN, and then come back to the van with a fair amount of ease. He also passed some bicyclists who were staring to beat all which pleased him greatly.
This is his favorite unicycle video so far. The first 3.5 minutes are outtakes which I just noticed with the sound on are set to ska music with some explicit-ish lyrics. After that is the main event. It is pretty nuts.
Ok, we apparently have a third thing to e-search. "Can bubbles freeze?"
Wikipedia tells us that in temperatures below 5 degrees (-15C), they will freeze when they hit a surface but then the air diffuses out and they crumple in on themselves. At below -13 (-25C) they will actually shatter when they touch stuff. But you can't blow them with warm breath in that kind of atmosphere or else they will collapse as they leave the wand, because of the changein volume as your breath cools. Huh.
Wikipedia has so much more in it that Funk & Wagnall's ever did when I was a kid, it's free, and it takes up SO MUCH LESS SPACE!
Apparently you can use dry ice to freeze bubbles that can then be picked up and examined. I think this may be in our near future.
Ok, so...I'ma finish baking all these cookies, and get a chicken roasting, and then figure out side dishes and read my kids a bunch of American history stuff re: the 4th of July until Grant gets home. And probably we will go see fireworks tonight at 9 at the stadium. WAIT! I have to make A and A have their quiet time. Annie does 30 minutes writing a book report and he does 30 minutes reading, everyday, and we didn't do that yet today. AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaalrighty.
-Freeze and berry up flag cake, while cookies finish
-read American stuff
-quiet time, which is when I get chicken roasting
-Grant, fireworks
I don't know if I ever showed you guys the CRAZY ASS movie our friend Shaun did for film school, that has since been in a couple of film festivals, that Ananda and Aaron were in. They spent about a half a dozen days with the crew filming for their scenes. It is about 20 minutes long. They think they are pseudo-famous because it's been shown on the big screen and we have a professional looking dvd case for our copy with their pictures on the back. Anyway, it is a trippy lot of O_o, but very well done. If you'd like to watch it:
The Gifter from Shaun Wright on Vimeo.
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Date: 2009-07-05 01:01 am (UTC)They both looked angelic in that film. They look so much like you- only just a tad more Caucasian? because of their hair. (No offense intended! I just don't know what word I mean.)
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Date: 2009-07-05 01:45 am (UTC)The beach they're on at one point is Anne's Beach where we always talk about going, and most of the more green scenes are in the everglades.
And yeah, A and A totally have white hair, don't worry about it :) Annie looks really white between the Asian-straight hair, the perky little nose and the peaches and cream skin. It's been bizarre for me here and there honestly, because all of the pics of my sister and I are pictures of brown girls with LONG super thick black hair, and it's sort of what my own personal idea of what childhood "looks like" was, if that makes any sense. Obviously this crescendo'd with Isaac ;) I was long over it before I actually somehow got kids with densely curly hair and wide noses.
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Date: 2009-07-05 01:56 am (UTC)Genetics are so strange. I have one and he's my exact clone, only a boy.
I want to go to Anne's Beach after some google-fu! That looks really peaceful :)
I agree about the video. I would love a screensaver with the music from the opening (the inky water looking thing?) I don't know what to call it. It was all creepy cool.
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Date: 2009-07-05 03:12 am (UTC)Aaron's unicycling is impressive! I'd have loved to have done that as a kid. The video of the pros was great, although the lack of helmets really freaked me out.
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Date: 2009-07-05 02:20 pm (UTC)2. The first mushrooms highly resemble wangs.
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