Mr K Science Academy

Anita is very committed to making her tummy flatter. (For the record, I think it's fine, but I totally support her goals.) She's been learning some kind of tunny-flattening dance, some sort of zumba or belly-dancing thing. She sure has fun with it. :)

My wife has learned how to make my family's traditional bread pudding recipe for Thanksgiving and Christmas. She loves it so much, we are making an extra batch today even though we are between those holidays. As a child, my family stuffed the turkey with it and called it stuffing. I didn't realize until later on in life, when I was an adult, and was having Thanksgiving with a different family, that stuffing in a bird is apparently NOT normally sweet and yummy. The bread pudding stuffing has apples, raisins, brown sugar, cinnamon, and other yummy stuff. You can make it in a baking dish like this or stuff a bird with it and have the bird juices add their flavor to it.

My Wife the Squirrel-Whisperer: Attempt #2 (Nilwood, IL USA)

My Wife the Squirrel-Whisperer: Attempt #1 (Nilwood, IL USA)

More adventures with bunnies! Bunny harnesses arrived from Amazon, but they were too small for our bunnies. My seamstress wife fixed that. Here she is outside sharing sunshine and fresh air with them. In her generation in the Philippines, the animals around were not pets, they were all there for a purpose. The pigs were for pork. The chickens for eggs, etc. Only in my step-daughter's generation did kids in her village get the luxury of pets. My wife is loving these bunnies like a little girl with her first pets because they are her first pets. She's very cute with them.

Yesterday was one of those days in Spring when Winter tries to pretend it's coming back. It wasn't my FIlipina wife's first snow here in America, but as we watched it coming down through the windows of our home, I explained what most Americans learn as little kids, that each snowflake is a unique crystal structure, unlike any other. I showed her pictures of individual snowflakes on the internet and she was so inspired that she had to go outside and observe individual flakes for herself examining them on her gloves and sleeves.

A belated Easter post: Last weekend, my wife found an albino, red-eyed bunny in our yard. It docilely came up to her and ate from her hand. It must have escaped or been dumped by previous human owners. Pet rabbits have NO survival skills so we rescued it. My son Ian noticed that right after we saved it, a dog came into our yard and followed the rabbit's scent trail, everywhere it had been in our yard. Welcome to the family, little Snow White. (Yes, our house is a little trashed in some of the pics. We are in the process of moving.)

It was a cloudy day but we had fun before the rain chased us inside.

Here's what my wife did today. She made a wife for the snowman she made yesterday.

The snowman is almost done!

She was VERY disappointed the last time it snowed because I had to explain that there are different kinds of snow and that the snow last time was too powdery to be good packing snow so our snowman building efforts failed. The Sun wasn't even up and she wass already pushing me to go out. Something told me that if there was any way possible, a snowman would get built in our yard today.

The snowman saga continues on.

She was VERY disappointed the last time it snowed because I had to explain that there are different kinds of snow and that the snow last time was too powdery to be good packing snow so our snowman building efforts failed. The Sun wasn't even up and she's already pushing me to go out today. Something told me that if there was any way possible, a snowman would get built in our yard today.

DNA can be extracted from bananas in a simple, quick procedure with items and products found in grocery stores. In a future episode of our FREE Course on How to Teach Science to Teenagers, we'll demonstrate!

This commercial was fun to make!

Here he is in all his glory!

It all starts here, folks!