First day of grumpy kids during no school break, I think they got too comfortable resting on Sunday. Hard to kick start the week today.
History - Still working on learning about the Civil war for Carissa. Watched Minutes from the Civil war, had some interesting facts. Our favorite tidbit was that soldiers were issued a rubber covered canvas cloth that was just invented with the Goodyear patent. The rubber made the cloth waterproof and was used either to put on the ground to sleep on or to put over you in a downpour. It certainly rains a lot around here!
Shop & Math- Brittney and I worked on upcycling an old sink and walker and a scrap sheet of plastic into a new camping sink complete with a new electric pump faucet. Pretty much done except we need a longer hose for the clean water and still waiting on one part for the drain. Prime shipping seems to be at least 7 days right now instead of 2! Brittney learned there is LOTS and LOTS of measuring and adding fractions when it comes to building anything. Will post a video of it in action once we get it totally completed.
Carissa helped build the "potty throne" for our portable potty. The original is was just a little too short for comfort. The new stand makes it just perfect. Ran out of time to paint it. Going to have to wait for another day since it is going to rain tomorrow. Lesson learned, pre-drill small parts of wood before using screws or it will split and you have to do it all over. Tried to cheat the system, see no school day 4 on repentance.
Geology- Carissa found a nearly perfect heart shaped rock in the driveway.
Civil engineering- perhaps a bit too much time building cities on Minecraft today in between projects. Tomorrow those devises may be quarantined or on lockdown like the rest of the world.
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