Dirt, Machines, and Supervisors

Peter and Gideon and a neighbour boy enjoyed watching and learning about water pipes,



and 6' high concrete sewer pipes...








...observed backhoes moving heavy steal bins....




...and pushing, carrying and shoving very heavy metal reinforcements for placing inside the hole to prevent avalanche of the dirt....



...and tried out being supervisors without the white hard hat :)

17th Wedding Anniversary

We planned our celebration based on the weather forecast. May 1st was a beautiful, sunny and warm day. So we had our Italian anniversary dinner at noon at home so that we could enjoy the weather at the beach that evening.




My joy of 17 years.



Added joys....






Favourite pasttimes at the beach.....






















It was a beautiful evening to enjoy one another.

Icecream anyone?

The boys were very excited to be able to make icecream as part of their Astronomy Science study this semester. The ingredients are very simple: cream, vanilla for flavour, ice cubes and in another bag separate from the first, place rock salt. Place the cream ingredient bag inside the bag with rock salt and shake.....











and shake.....







and voila! Icecream! Guess what kind :)






Perhaps you are wondering about the correlation to Astronomy?? Well, comets have a combination of ice and stones which is the white tail or line you may have seen as they shoot across the sky - in actual fact, they are not shooting stars, but meteors disintegrating when they hit earth's atmosphere. (well that's what I remember, without the access to the text which is currently packed up).