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Crafts
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11.03.09Girl Therapy for Mothers of Wild Things
Crafts, decorative arts, mom (6)Do you have crazy wild testosterone maniacs living under your roof? Do you spend your days "battling for justice", modifying "alien ships", and keeping an eye out for dead stuff to poke with a stick? Sometimes our boys look thoughtful and innocent like in the photo to the left below. However, more often than not they look like the photos of spidey there on the right...I rest my case. As much as we try to fully embrace our little boys they sometimes drive us crazy. This is why Stephanie and I get together and go on "fairy benders". We self medicate ...
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09.20.09Corn Shuckery
Birds, Crafts, gardening (4)One of the less ambitious projects in Daniel Beard's summer chapter was to make a violin from a corn stalk. In his romantic view any young man would have a pile of dried corn stalks just piled up behind his barn. Well, we were lucky in that we had planted a "corn spiral" in our garden. In other ways we were not so lucky. The Indian Corn cross bred with all the sweet corn, and pretty much took over. Since we never actually ate any of our corn it had to be put to some good use. I researched a ...
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09.10.09Paddling for Bioluminescence
Aquaria, Birds, Boats, Crafts, Fishing, Summer, nature study (13)We have been captivated lately. Until we are ready to stock our home marine aquarium we've spent quality time recently with our fellow sea creatures by several means: we renewed our membership at the aquarium; we've started teaching the boys to surf in Santa Cruz; and we've spent much time paddling up and down the sloughs, bays and byways of the Bay Area. On a recent campout to Tomales Bay we overheard, just as we were laying down to sleep in our tents, an armada of chatty sea kayakers paddling into our cove just bubbling with enthusiasm over something even more ...
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