We've been visiting his place since the '00s, and apparently this year was a banner year for the gourds. Sorry there's nothing in the photo above to really give you scale, but let's just say most of the specimens were MUCH bigger than CJ and Annabelle - combined!
On our way home, our gray day turned into a crazy squall. We got DUMPED on by rain the likes of which we haven't seen in months and months. It was a downright deluge. Imagine my surprise when we got home and I checked the Internet to find the National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for west central Pierce County on Saturday (just to our south). A waterspout was spotted out over the sound. Fortunately, it never made landfall.
GEOLOGICAL WEEK: About a month ago a big ol' packet of posters, worksheets, lesson plans, and other educational resources showed up like a present in our mailbox, a gift from NASA, to help us celebrate Earth Sciences Week, Oct. 13-17. Sweet!
We dove into the big pile today, and I pulled out a colorful poster. Once side was a graphic/timeline of the different geologic ages.
The other side has info about fossils and the Paleontology Society. It even included chords to a song called "Ages of Rock" by a group called Ratfish Wranglers. Naturally, we were compelled to track the song down online. I remembered the University of Washington had a great site called "Sing About Science" and hoped we'd find it there. We did! That site provided us a link to the Ratfish Wranglers' MySpace (throwback!) presence. There, we found their "Cruisin the Fossil Freeway" CD, including the cut the poster mentioned, "Ages of Rock." https://myspace.com/ratfishbrothers
After listening to it a couple of times, the kids were ready to play along, and so science class turned into music class today. Nice!
BIRD BRAINED: We always enjoy trips to our favorite local hardware store, Ace. They have free popcorn for customers, and several cages full of pretty birds in the back (all hardware stores have that, right?). They also have a large assortment of cupcake liners, if you can believe that, so we're there a lot.
We stopped a couple of days ago and noticed a new cage, separate from the rest. Guess Buddy has been up to no good ...
Apparently he is sorry ...
Come Sunday, we went for a nice long walk on the waterfront before the Seahawks' (horrible) game.
We walked all the way to Belltown, and the haunting statue "Echo", a 46-foot sculpture by internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plens.
Her nuances stand out better when it's not so sunny out. Love this art.
Today in our travels, we spotted the Husky football bus. The Huskies had a *much* better weekend than the Seahawks. ...
ON THIS DAY: Apollo 7 launched on Oct. 7, 1968. On this day in history, they transmitted the first live broadcast television from aboard an American crewed spacecraft.
No comments:
Post a Comment