Choclo is  a great 8! He had an Angry Birds themed party with friends. We did a pinata! We did an Angry Birds treasure hunt - th...

Crystals are molecules making regular formations.  This is usually dictated by the chemical properties of the molecule. Water, for example...

I'm sure I'm the only one who has ever found a fantastic craft on the internet that, in real life, made me want to poke myself in th...

 We visited our family graves and had a cook out. At least we visited some of the graves.  When we went into Arlington, they had closed...

Barter Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fir...

1.  White Knight, our long-suffering minivan, ended the suspense of the mysterious oil pressure problem by coughing up its transmission. S...

"This will be a basic science class," the teacher said acidly. At any rate, you can't talk about chemistry with out talkin...

 I finally downloaded photos from my phone and found all sorts of happy pictures. Here's Choclo with the tulips he planted in his ga...

 Leena asked if we could grow mushrooms again. But, of course! The thing about mushrooms is that they double in size each day until ma...

A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they --    Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away,    This late hour, ye...