Science Pics

Lately (before my mom went away briefly for a family emergency--everything's fine-- and I took a long road trip) I had been doing quite a bit of Physical Science that I found very photographic!

Most recently, I have been studying practical home electricity...Including (the very old fashioned) fuse boxes!

[One of the fuses] 

 [The box itself]

I found the sheet of yellowing paper which told us which fuses went to which parts of the house, it was very interesting to see the generations of  handwriting from our home's owners'... all on the same piece of paper!

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The week before, I had been studying circuits (and the likes) I got some great pictures of our experimental circuit!

[Pictured here is the coil...and the bit of blue covered wire that was causing all of our problems!]

[The contraption; two nails shoved into a cork-screw, with a bunch of wire...very easy!]

[Almost there, now we just have to hook it on to the battery and discover that it's not working]

Unfortunately, as I wrote above, the experiment didn't work. We were supposed to hook the 'contraption' to a battery and feel the coil heat up, however because of the stupid piece of blue coated wire, the experiment didn't exactly work and we had to go through the pains of stripping the tips of yet another piece of wire (this is where you're supposed to feel just a tad bit sorry for me!).

Well, another corkscrew wasted!* (what else were we supposed to do with it??)

*Note, when i say wasted, I don't actually mean it because we had a great time trying the experiment a second time and fooling around with the wires, the 'contraption', the battery, and a light bulb...later on

heavy, heavy sigh

Scrap the excitement...I am still excited about having a blog button, but unfortunatley I am also having problems allowing you to grab it, so I'll request that you grab it another day, and in the meatime: can anyone tell me how to make a scroll box that you can grab my button from? (I know that sentance didn't exactly make sense!) Anyhow, help would be much appreciated and I thank you for your patience!

Hello again {blog button?}

Hello again,
 I am posting to tell you my very exciting news...I think I may have finally discovered how to make a perfectly goo blog button, thanks to this blog! So tell me what you think of it:

[this is my button]

Hopefully I shall be able to put it up by the end of the day, and if I'm lucky, it will be 'grabbable' by the time you finish reading this post. If so, this may be the one time in your life where someone will request that you grab something, right out of their hands...whooopeee for you!!!!! (And for me, cause I'm going to be that someone who is the first to do something!)

Inspiration {no words, just a scene}

[“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working" ~Pablo Picasso]

Image: Poets and Writer's Magazine Jan/Feb 2011

Gardening

Finally, it's the time of year when we start looking forward and planning for the spring (and summer). Personaly, I hate this time of year (besides one thing that I'll get to below). I hate that the sky is always grey, the world is cold, with no purpose (for example it's usually not snowing), the sun isn't very warming, and the ground is frozen solid. Not to mention the fact the most of the snow has already melted leaving the ground a 'beautiful' brown. You're tired of winter, have cabin fever, and wish that the crocuses would just bloom already!

           The one thing that I like?             (scroll down for answer)

Ordering seeds! We just ordered ours, and I'm now looking forward to a summer filled with  red and golden tomatoes, strawberries, string beans, snap peas, eggplant, and lot's of lettuce! I am so excited to prep the garden and turn the soil. Just thinking about standing with the dirt between my toes and the sun, warm on my back gives me a fluttery stomach!

Question: What's your favorite part of gardening? What do you like to plant in your garden?

             [Unfortunatley, the picture is my mom's I can not take credit for it, though I wish that I could!]

when will it end? Also: ideas?

After taking a much needed week to thaw off in the south, here I am...RUDE AWAKENING: it's cold and still snowing.  Yes, life is terrible sometimes but also very pleasant sometimes...for example tomorrow when the weather is going to go back up to 50 degrees YIPPEEEE!

Anyhow, this blog is not a weather report.

Also: I find myself often typing things on my blog that don't have much inspiration behind them. It's that time of year when everything is sort of bleak and the skies are grey, so I need some inspiration! If you have any ideas, questions, or comments that might inspire future posts, I would love to hear them (and I will link your name to the post.) That would be much appreciated... I look forward to hearing from you!

No post {florida}

There's this joke that my dad once told me (in Hebrew) that makes absolutely no sense. It goes:

Two elephaunts are sitting in a bath tub, one says to the other, "Pass the soap please" and the other one says, "No soap, radio!" [here, you're supposed to laugh so hard milk comes out your nose]

See what I mean?  Anyhow, the reason that I bring this up is because the title of this post reminded me of that joke, so I came up with a more fitting one.

Two people are sitting at two different computers, one writes (in a comment on my blog) "post please" and the other person (me) writes "No post, Florida!" ha ha ha.

Actually, I'm writing to say that I haven't and won't be posting for some time because I'm currently visiting family in FLorida. (It's very warm here, I'm getting a small tan, and everything is good  with the world...except that there's too many malls and cars here!)