On alternate Wednesdays, Katherine’s friend Jasper comes over after school and yesterday’s visit was a foray into mask-making. We tied back hair, slathered faces (including eyebrows) in petroleum jelly to protect their skin and had a very firm discussion about the virtues of staying still and keeping one’s eyes closed during the process. Note: Plaster…
Finding wings in a pot of glue
It’s funny how you can chug merrily along in life for years, doing things that are either just within or on the edges of you comfort zone and never realizing what you miss by jumping outside it. One of my parameters of comfort has always been breaking the house. I do not like even the…
Introducing “Flat Katherine”
Meet Flat Katherine: Flat Katherine is a variant on “Flat Stanley (wikipedia link)”, which I first encountered as an idea during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The Flat Stanley Project is a literacy endeavour based on the books about Stanley Lambchop, a flattened child who can go virtually anywhere because of his two-dimensionality. During the Olympics,…
Chugging along
Life is proceeding pretty much apace here. Thanks to some help from Mom & Dad over the Thanksgiving Weekend, the shed now has rafters and some sheathing: I finished off a hat and sweater set for my sister’s baby: And Rowan and I got out for a wee hike yesterday, during which we found an…
An indoor day
I checked my stats on geocaching.com and discovered that we seem to do most of our caching in October. This sort of fits, since in October, it’s *usually* not snowing, the rain *sometimes* isn’t horrendous and there are no bugs. Plus the Christmas mayhem hasn’t hit yet and the foliage is spectacular. October is just…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 