Posts from ‘November, 2009’

All set up and ready for the Christmas holidays!

One year ago, we began our family website with a few pictures of us setting up the Christmas Tree.  (Here is the first entry.)  After years of spamming friends and family with pictures, we decided to turn the table and allow folks to take a look at what we were up to when they were [...]

Swedish Cardamom Rosettes.

“This is so much better than playing Super Smash Bros Brawl.”  said Sam.

The author was a novelist prior to his time in the German infantry.  Interesting perspective with lots of local geography.

A blustery day in Belgium.  Low fast-moving clouds and lots of gusty winds coming off the North Sea.  Dry leaves are rattling at the front door as Jack Frost is trying to assert his grip on northern Europe.

Despite the weather outside, it is wonderful inside.  The turkey is in the oven, Jillian is teaching a [...]

Zach and Nate are getting closer to earning their National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) scuba certifications.  45 minutes underwater this time.  We had some tired boys on the drive home.  Only two more sessions to go!

Zach was pleased to find out that Cousteau was deeply involved with NAUI in its early years.  Both Cousteau [...]

Mom had some help baking pies for Thanksgiving.  Nate insisted on adding all the detail to the pie crust “leaves.”

I wonder if this pie will remain untouched until Thursday afternoon.

As a continuation of the practical weekend thermodynamics projects started with Steam Cycle Saturday, we knocked the dust off the steam locomotive.  Our Accucraft Ida is a G-scale, butane fired low pressure saturated steam engine.  Our trip home allowed me to pick up some steam oil. (no idea where to get it here) and after visiting [...]

While we were traveling in America, blustery Belgian weather filled our back yard with leaves from all the neighbor’s trees.  We took advantage of a crisp, clear autumn day to rake them all up.  Well, I have been corrected that, actually, the three boys did it, not “we.”

Zachary seems to be easing into the oldest [...]