Planting :)

The kids by our raised beds! We planted peas, carrots, strawberry starts, spinach, lettuce, potatoes and radishes. 

They were so excited to plant the potatoes all by themselves!! 

Great job!! 

Project 4x4!

Project 4X4 is pretty easy.. I actually did about half of it alone as Papa wasn't feeling too hot and he had a few other things that needed doing. So we did the outside ring of 4x4's together and then he set me up and I did the last inside row pretty much alone.. I guess now that I'm able to 'properly use a drill' I'm more helpful :) 

These 4x4 pieces of wood are 17 inches from outside edge to outside edge. The straw bales will sit on these 4x4's and become our outside and hallway walls. They are glued and screwed on and by the end of the day my back was informing me LOUDLY that the Tylenol bottle MUST BE OPENED!! 

We didn't get all the 4x4's done but before we can finish them we have to figure out where we want doors in the hallway. We did borrow Mr and Mrs. B's program to plan out the house and we now just have to figure out where the doors go! 

~The Chicken Leg~ Science

I found this cool experiment on Pintrest :) 

You take a chicken bone, soak it in vinegar for several days and see what happens..

It was VERY COOL!!!

The vinegar takes the calcium out of the bone and the results are cool and kinda fun to play with..

Try it.. it's easy!! 

I talked to the kids when we put the bone in the vinegar, told them what the vinegar should do to the bone and asked them what they thought would happen to the bone. We also had quite a nice chat on calcium and it's sources. 

J thought it would get softer.

L thought it would go skinnier.

E thought it would go fatter.

R thought it would get smaller.

Try it and see what did happen :)