Yes!! and Yes!!

Blogger must have put back their old image import feature. I can put images on again! Yes! And the other "Yes" is for us finally racing. This is a picture of my hubby under the race car. I love this picture. It's a bit humorous. Disclaimer: No mechanic was harmed in the making of this photo... Ha ha ha!! He does a large amount of the work himself. 

We had a new engine built this year and it was suppose to be finished for the long weekend in May. It wasn't finished until a couple of weeks ago. It's in and ready to go! 

If you know anything about racing you'll know what I mean when I say that our car use to be in the 12's and now it should be in the 9's. We will find out this weekend. If it's in the 9's we'll have to get a special license. Also, if it has a really hard take-off we may need a wheelie bar.

Wish us luck!

No pictures?!

I am unable to post pictures on here anymore. They changed how it's done and my old Macintosh doesn't work with whatever they did. Without pictures I think that it wouldn't be have as exciting reading this blog. So, I may be taking a break until I get a new computer. I sadly say goodbye until then or until they change how they place images on this site. Hopefully I'll be back soon.
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Book Sharing Monday - Slop Goes The Soup

Want to talk to your kids about onomatopoeia (ahn-uh-mah-tuh-pee-uh)? Onomatopoeia means words that sound just like their sound. Slop Goes The Soup by Pamela D. Edwards and Henry Cole is a story about these words that describe (and sound like) sounds. It's a very simple story, but there is a page at the back that talks about onomatopoeia and has some questions/activities that help reinforce the definition.

Black Swallowtail Butterfly

Here is our butterfly house. We made it at a Homeschool Bug Co-Op. It works well. I wish I could find the instructions on how to make it so I can share, but I was unsuccessful. It's pretty easy but not so easy to explain without illustrations or pictures. Sorry, guys. If anyone finds instructions, please share them with me and I'll share it here.

We started with 6 caterpillars. Four of them are now butterflies and we let them go. Two of them are in the chrysalis stage. We've done well, with the exception of one butterfly that our cats got a hold of one early morning. We set it free because it was still alive but it was unable to fly. Now I keep the butterfly house hanging on a ceiling lamp in the office where I can shut the door at night, locking the cats out.

This is one of our success stories. I captured a picture of it while it rested on a tree branch in our yard, before taking flight.