Why did the chicken go to the gym?

To work on his pecks.

Have you ever noticed there are pipes sticking up out of your roof? Those are there to act as plumbing vents. They serve two purposes. 1)the prevent your traps from siphoning all the water out, and 2)they allow methane gas from your septic tank a way out so it doesn't build up pressure and bubble methane through the traps into your house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGofkKOP2SU

How to Fix a Square That’s Not 90°.

Too good to not share

We should expect that we cannot teach our children the solutions for every problem they will encounter. So we need to teach them to think and how to perhaps look at something from a different perspective. On March 13 of this year I suggested that George Westinghouse invented a successful air brake for trains by thinking backwards... he applied air to release the brakes where everyone else had attempted to use air to apply the brakes.

To this end, I want to introduce the kids to two concepts about our thinking and our abilities. Survivorship bias and Dunning Kruger Effect.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4kMrWwl_hmY

Survivorship bias. We tend to look at what works and think that's the solution. Here's an example of why we have to flip our thinking on it's head.

This is the dunning kruger effect in a chart. When we start to do something and get lucky a few times and think we've got it. This usually happens with motorcycle riders. They get about a year in to riding with no accidents and are over confident and have a crash. Slowly over the next several years, their confidence rises again at the same rate as their skill.

Shanleya's Quest: A Botany Adventure for Kids Ages 9 to 99
by Thomas Elpel (Author), Gloria Brown (Illustrator)
In a mythical world where time is a liquid that falls as rain upon the land, young Shanleya paddles her canoe out to the tree islands to learn the plant traditions of her people. Each island is home to a separate family of plants and an unforgettable Guardian with lessons to teach about the identification and uses of those plants. Shanleya's Quest is a truly unique educational book that presents botanical concepts and plant identification skills in an easy and fun metaphorical format for children as well as for adults who are young at heart.

The book begins with a creation myth that parallels evolutionary concepts, where life begins as bubbles in a puddle of soup under the radiance of Father Sun and the gentle glow of Mother Moon. The evolutionary tree of life becomes a literal part of the story, buried up to its branch-tips (the "islands") in an ocean of Time that just keeps getting deeper and deeper. This is the world that Shanleya explores by canoe, learning the essential characteristics of closely related plants on each island she visits. Readers young and old can join Shanleya's Quest, learning the patterns to correctly identify more than 45,000 species of plants to their proper families. The Quest will change the way you see the world, enabling you to experience nature in a new and magical way that you probably never imagined possible.

Written by outdoor educator Thomas J. Elpel, author of Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification. Wonderfully illustrated by Gloria Brown, who blended botanical accuracy with fantasy to produce artwork that both captivates and educates!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_sb2_NKyKA&ra=m

A fun historical recipe!!!

Hey parents: https://classicallearner.com/

Food Preservation: Technique #1-Dehydrating

One of the oldest forms of preserving food is dehydrating, or drying the food out. There are various methods to do so, from utilizing the heat of the sun to an actual electric dehydrator. Although there are some foods that should not be dehydrated and preserved in another fashion, most foods can be dehydrated and stored for a while.

Some favorite things I like to dehydrate are apple slices.

Purposeful Pantry is a gal I’ve learned a lot from!!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ygE6PlbZKGA&pp=ygURcHVycG9zZWZ1bCBwYW50cnk%3D