Just a quick post tonight. I found this picture on the table a few days ago, when I was clearing it off to get ready for dinner: I’m not sure if this is Daegan’s work or Gareth’s, but I thought it was neat way to represent some of their knowledge about dinosaurs. This is a [...]
On our weekend trip to Edmonton for Daegan’s birthday, we took in an Insect class for families at Devonian Gardens, about 15 minutes SW of the city. Daegan and Jim have done classes in this series before, but this was Gareth’s first time—and mine—and was he ever excited! We all had a good time, but [...]
We spent quite a bit of time inside the Interpretive Centre at Dinosaur Provincial Park, and we were all quite surprised to find that there was far more to it than dinosaurs. (Many more dinosaurs are on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, about an hour and a half away, and I think [...]
I’m going to break my post about Dinosaur Provincial Park into two parts: the first on the park and badlands (“the outside”) and the tomorrow’s post on the excellent Interpretative centre (“the inside”). We were absolutely blown away by the park, and how many things there are to do. Next trip we will take the [...]
After the T rex Discovery Centre, we made the scenic drive through the Cypress Hills to Medicine Hat, AB,where we stayed overnight. En route we saw more pronghorn antelopes: and stopped at the Alberta Tourist Info Centre at Walsh, just inside the AB / SK border. We’d stopped there on the way out for a [...]
After picking Jim up at the Greyhound bus station and sleeping in Swift Current Thursday night, we headed to the T Rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, SK first thing Friday morning. The boys were uber-excited! I am including lots of pics from the Centre (at the end of this post) as I am sure at [...]
Last Thursday the boys and I headed to Swift Current, SK to meet Jim, who was taking the bus from Regina (about 3 hours E of Swift Current) there after his Prairie Developer conference. We then headed out on a mini-vacation of sorts, heavy on dinos and wildlife and landscapes. Despite all of us catching [...]
Friday afternoon the boys and I attended a workshop on vermicomposting, or worm composting, put on by a lady who runs a small business in Calgary, Worms at Work. There were 30 or so young homeschoolers in attendance—including some friends that we didn’t realize would be there—along with about a dozen Moms. The boys are [...]
This past weekend was the Victoria Day, or “May 2-4”, weekend, a little bit of wordplay as the holiday often lands around May 24th, and a “two-four” is slang for a case of 24 beers, which are often enjoyed during this “kickoff to summer” long weekend in Canada. I had a great time gardening and [...]
A few days ago the Jim and the boys made their own fossils using plastic dino skeletons, sand, and plaster of Paris. Over the weekend we finished the project, removing the sand to reveal the fossil impressions. Jim began by carefully sliding the fossil “cake” out of the bowl, supporting it with his hand as [...]