Mission to Earth
For the next 7 years the Zolander landing craft will be exploring the remote eastern edge of the SF bay on the western coast of the American continent on a plant know as Earth. This mission will not only determine the surrounding geology, but will be the final interaction the craft will have with the local population. It will truly test the engineers design and the future of humanity.
Big thanks to all who helped and especially Shannon with the forklift.
Check out Shannon’s Neverwas Haul a giant Victorian House on wheels!
We are so glad to have such a great place for our daughter to play and learn. Thank you APS community!
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Zolie
This post was written by Form & Reform on April 11, 2010
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Friday was good, but Saterday was even better! We went to a birthday party, dyed eggs and got 4 more wheelchairs to make into something!
Hot on my honey/daddy do list is:
- Lady bug
- Deco Gargoyle
- Earwig
- Zeppelin
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This post was written by Form & Reform on April 3, 2010
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My daughter Zolie and I thought it would be fun to make butter to go with Mom’s pancakes. My local homeless friend Hank found this great Daisy Churn #4 for me a few weeks back. With the leftover cream from the birthday pies we made last week and a copy of Joy of Cooking from 1964 we got to work. Right away we knew we were in for the long haul when we read “how much slower the process was in threatening or stormy weather”. We looked outside and saw it was still raining. We worked the handle on top of the table, then on the floor and finally we moved out to the living room to catch a movie while we finished. Finally we had what looked like butter. After removing it from the churn and washing with cold water we had to decide what kind of salt to add. We split it up and added French British Maldon sea salt to half and Korean parched salt to the other. The whole time we made it Zolie kept telling me to go slower dad. How she knew that I have no idea. I kept asking her where she lived last and who she was. Old souls make great butter even in the rain!
cranking hard on the table
It’s thicker now and she had to move it to the floor for better leverage.
Home made butter on Kyrsten’s buckwheat pancakes!
Update
The butter tastes great and the little bit of Buttermilk left in pockets of the butter makes it moist on toast.
Buttermilk will get used this Sat. for more Pancakes and fresh butter!
Here is how you can make at home
Make Butter
Zolie amazing Karydis with her Tomato crop
When I was Zolie’s age now my dad put in his first garden at our house in Boise Idaho. Tomatoes have always been grown in our Basque family and we have taken pride in them for generations. I remember us taking first place in the Idaho State fair in the mid 70’s for the biggest tomato! We were just shy of a world record! I recall it taking several jars for mom to can and it was as big as my sisters and I head. Over the years my dad worked out a system of supports for the huge plants we would grow that I still use today in the garden with Zolie. Well now he has improved it and he sent me his updated system and photos of the results (see link below)!
tomato-trellising-system
Taxidermy Department at CAL
After missing the preschool deadline for my daughter Zoile (a week after I met my wife Kyrsten) we thought we should get the jump on college for Zolie, so we took her to CalDay to sign her up for college. We thought she might like taxidermy but she was visibly disturbed by all the dead stuff. She was back to her happy self once we found some live things (bunnies, lizards, and these great stick bugs).
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This post was written by Form & Reform on April 14, 2008
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