next hat...next colors

Here is a picture of the next hat I am going to help create...







I say help, for these colors are going to be knitted together in a similar design. This one will go to someone for Christmas!

pretty!

Here is the finished project! It looks so cool on...kinda like the one Tim Booth wore on the night we saw him in concert. Only this one has some color.

Bill's coral

My brother, Bill, is a cool dude. One of his passions is aquatic life. Right now he has coral growing in his tanks at home. A few days ago he sent these pictures so we could see them up close! So very, very cool. Makes me want to have a few tanks myself!


Bill wrote to us, "This is a purple branching coral. I've had it for a couple of weeks. When I bought it the polyps were all dark brown. This was because of the light level at the aquarium store. Under moderate light these corals turn brown because of the algae living inside them (symbiosis). The algae are brown, and they proliferate inside the corals under lower light intensities. But my aquarium has a higher light intensity than the fish store, and the polyps are slowly turning purple. You can see the polyps pretty well, even though they are really small. Eventually they may all be purple."



Bill's words : "Try these on for size, too. One shows a bunch of pink and red feather duster worms spreading their tentacles out to catch food (and breathe). The feather dusters just appeared on the rocks about two weeks after I bought them, and I've done nothing for them- they just grow and eat whatever comes their way (there are lots and lots of tiny critters- copepods and stuff in the tank which have also grown there naturally.) See if you can find the featherdusters! The other shows an emerald crab picking algae off the rocks around some mushroom anemones."



Thanks, Bro! Keep them coming...we truly enjoy these. I have just added a coral tank to my wish list for Santa!

Picasa2

Is a great program from which to send pictures to people. What I didn't realize is that it doesn't actually store the pictures. So...I have deleted all of the past pictures...which disappoints me to no end. Another learning experience!

We got this in the mail today!!!

What a great feeling to be remembered by our good friends as they were there having a blast and enjoying themselves tremendously! Great for the kids to have that mail they so love to receive, too! Made it more special for Kai that one of his best friends wrote to him.

Thanks Violet and Olivia!

More pictures from the fridge

More pictures from the fridge. from Beachbum on Vimeo.

I found these night before last while Kade was enjoying opening boxes that were taped shut. Hope you enjoy!

Kade's requests

Kade is usually the one who wants the most action in his play at this stage of our lives. Today he came up to me and asked for 10 pieces of paper. I ask if we can use 5 and then cut those in half. "Sure!" So on the half pieces of paper he writes big numbers, one on each page. The next dialog goes like this:

KADE: Ok. Are you ready to play?
ME: What's the game?
KADE: It's a number hiding game.
ME: What are we supposed to do?
KADE: One of us hides these numbers around the house. The other one has to go find them.
ME: Who hides them first?
KADE: Me, of course.
ME: Go hide them!

We played this game for about 2 hours!!! The hiding places started out as really open and not hidden at all. As we played, though, the hiding places got more challenging to find. We had to make a new rule that said the pages had to have at least part of them visible. It was a blast.

After the game, I sat and knitted for a touch. Kade came over and asked if we could make another video of his newest Lego mini cons. So...here it is!


Mini con, Lego style from Beachbum on Vimeo.

On to this.

Well, the yarn has been calling me!

This will be a cool hat for Kate. :)

These are done!

I have had the chance to do those last few stitches...and here is the end result. They will be on their way to NM!

More words!

Part of the fun of these words is we ask the kids what words they wish us to write on the cardboard. We did a knight theme on these, but they started drifting further from the knight theme as time has gone by. Our next bet will be to write words on the blank sides to create even more of a selection to put together. This is like the magnetic words they make for the fridge, except the kids can manipulate them easier!



Kai was interested in the stack of words. He went through them and came up with this:

"If green knights slurp brave lizards in a cave, a princess can not fry and eat toes, unless they are very dark dragon boogers with brown old soup of pink worms and tomatoes.

Kade came back with the leftover words and left this:

"Crunchy farting horses can sometimes always eat stinky bald knights and should never sleep. Everyday big slugs ride stinky poopie diapers unless they are purple.