The Trumansburg Fair

 I took the kids to the fair yesterday while Alexa was in her final crush of work before the semester starts. I think the pictures speak for themselves -- we found all the fun there was to be had.

a few weeks shy of 8

OVERHEARD:

Has anyone invented a paper clip that is between 25 and 50 feet long?  

(possible stated utility: spacecraft, specifically attaching payload to shuttle)

I know.  We should invent a thing that makes it possible to translate a word into your own language and understand it. There could be a thing where you point something at a word and it takes a picture of it and then it changes the word for you so you can understand it.

What if there were a hole in the top of your mouth that let you reach up into your brain and find a certain thought?  It wouldn't hurt and it wouldn't be gross if we already had it.  It would just be the way things were.

Do we know yet whether, when you see a certain color and pattern, part of your brain turns that color and also takes on that pattern? 

game night

 

FYI, it was Professor Plum with the knife in the billiard room.

24 hours in late August

view from the dining room

 

still warmer than the lake, which is still warmer than the warmest New England beach day

picked early this morning

floating LOUD over our heads 60 seconds ago and still a rush every time

trip to planet Walmart

 Walmart is amazing.

morning scene

 

the usual

 

Summer pets

 The monarch butterflies have finally made it up here. The first egg in our house hatched on January 31. This is a picture of a just hatched caterpillar, with mechanical pencil lead for scale. Also if you can make it out, that white blob at the tip of the pencil is the egg case.

This guy is about a week old

This is after 3 or 4 days of munching milkweed

They grow for 2-3 weeks or so and then spend another 3 in a chrysalis. We should have butterflies starting in mid September.

But butterflies aren't the only winged creatures that define our summer; the hummingbirds are finally in full swing. Based on how constantly they're feeding, I think there might be fledgelings coming to visit.

*This post by Emily, regardless of what it says below