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Out popped his oh-so-adorable little head:<\/p>\n Actually not so little, he is 90+% sized for his age:<\/p>\n Nor did this scary plant-from-outer-space:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We set our sites on a new world record for the highest rpm and longest lasting spin for a toy gyroscope. Here we were trying a drill:<\/p>\n Here Zach is holding the gyroscope while Nick is about to swing a 15′ pole attached to the string:<\/p>\n That actually worked pretty well, if you ignore the dent the pole put in the wall:<\/p>\n It was all great fun:<\/p>\n We introduced Max to pong-ping:<\/p>\n And the secret loft with a bear:<\/p>\n But I think he liked the building blocks best … so did doggy:<\/p>\n Micro quad-copter pilots in training:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our final activity was to waterboard each other. The girls took a pass for some reason, but we three ‘boys’ took our turn on the plank. It was an interesting experience, something we can probably leave off of future fun vacation activities:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In projects this month, I replaced an above stove microwave with a hood that can more quietly suck up cooking smoke. 3 useful tools: headlight, long screwdriver, and an small height adjustable chair to position it on:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I re-purposed that log that used to be a bridge before it broke. 1\/2 I made into a pond dam, and the other 1\/2 I winched up the hill to use as a trail border:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Remember those big Koi fish in last month’s post? Not surprisingly, they were too big for a 50 gallon fish tank, so we tried them out in one of the pools we made in the creek. This is Helen trying to instruct the fish on how to eat:<\/p>\n The pool worked ok until rained:<\/p>\n After the first few rain storms, I was able to rescue the fish from downstream, but eventually I think they moved to Florida. We tried normal sized goldfish in our now empty fish tank:<\/p>\n They lasted a couple of weeks:<\/p>\n But then the water clouded up (I think the Buddha neglected to use the bathroom) and the fish decided to re-incarnate elsewhere (hopefully not into local angry birds with grenades seeking revenge). That leaves us with a mostly empty fish tanks, which is still pretty:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n