Summer. All of a sudden it’s summer–I only just turned off the boiler yesterday and the same day it was really tempting to turn on the air conditioner. Since my classes officially finished with the handing in of a project on Monday night, I have turned my attention to the…

I’ve been meaning to post about the plant growing situation around here. This year I took a plunge into new territory–starting seeds indoors. I set up an area in the basement with florescent lights for the seedlings. Though some seeds didn’t really work out, I’ve had a lot of success…

After much delay, here’s some photos from day 3 of spring break. We went bowling and had lots of fun. Miles scored the group high score, I think it was 101. We are not the best bowlers out there! But it was a good time. [slideshow]

Today’s plan was to go check out some sights in Hyde Park that are mentioned in the book that Miles and I are reading: The Wright Three. We nearly bailed on the plan several times because it was raining so much this morning, but we decided to go ahead and…

Liam’s group in his biology class is building a wind turbine. After much planning and watching instructional videos on youtube, they started the building process. Fortunately our ever-resourceful friend Chris was able to help them out over at his wood shop. On Sunday they got it assembled and built a…

We started off the boys’ spring break week with a visit to the amazing jellyfish exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium. [slideshow] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPONZqv7_nw?rel=0&w=480&h=390] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8XKNdy9on0?rel=0w=480h=390]

We got a new bike for me today… rather we got a used bike frame. But thanks to john’s bike building skills, a beautiful and warm sunny day and lots of parts borrowed from john winter bike it was looking more like a bike by the end of the day!…

Looks like our street is being prepped for its springtime surgery!

Liam got his top braces off today and as suspected he looks like a movie star (to his mom anyway!) He now has a retainer. He was awarded a letter that starts off “Congratulations on your new straight teeth!” and then goes on to say “You must wear your retainer…

The crocuses in our front yard emerged about a week ago but today they opened. Pretty!