Random Summer Activities

Not too much is going on here other than enjoying the lazy days of summer. The boys have been going to day camp and are looking forward to a visit to Texas in a few weeks.

Last week Evan went to art camp. The instructors showed the children how to use a different medium each day. They did projects using acrylic paint, watercolor paint, clay, and pastels. 

On the day that Evan did the clay projects, he told me that in order to last, they had to be baked. He handed me an instruction sheet and I saw that it had instructions for air drying and baking. Wanting to bake the items, I followed the instructions in the baking section. I put them in the oven, set the timer, etc. After about 45 minutes I heard a really loud popping sound come from the kitchen. I turned the light on in the oven and saw that one of the items that he made had exploded.

I then looked more closely at the directions and realized that the clay items were supposed to be air dried for several days AND THEN baked. I let everything cool and then a few hours later was able to pick up the big pieces of clay out of the oven and the vacuum cleaner picked up the rest, so there was no permanent damage done.

Collection of Evan's art projects.

Clay cat, pencil holder, cup and turtle.

Speaking of pops, Todd was using my computer on Sunday afternoon, heard a pop and the whole computer shut down. Being an electronic genius, Todd opened it up to see if he could find out what was wrong and fix it. Since I need a computer for my business we had plan A, fix the computer and plan B, buy another computer that evening. He did some investigating and initially thought that it was a problem with the power supply. He also then took out the video card and saw that some caps had popped. 

We went to the electronics store and bought a new video card and power supply. We also looked at the new computers just in case the computer couldn't be fixed. Todd first put in the video card and turned on the computer. Nothing happened. He then changed out the power supply and bingo, the computer started whirring and came back to life. I was relieved because starting over with a new computer is a LOT of work. Thanks, Honey!

I never realized there was so much empty space in the computer. Todd says it is for air circulation.

Service with a smile!