Rich's Rocket

This past weekend, Rich and I were sitting around the house and he was playing a little Rocket Robin in the morning. Then he turned to me and said, "Let's go get some model rockets!" So we went down to the hobby shop and picked out our rockets and paint and then came home for a day full of building and painting. This post is just going to show Rich's rocket because his is done. I'm still painting some of mine, so I'll post that soon when it's finished. So here's our day in pictures and Rich's rocket!

Rich cutting out the rocket fins

Rich and his rocket engine

The nose of the rocket

Waiting for the glue to dry
Still waiting for the glue to dry...
Rocket painted with primer
Waiting for the paint to dry

Rich's Rocket! (I just wanted to say that this rocket was called the Baby Bertha at the store...Big Bertha with the mommy rocket I guess, and it was definitely big!)

Rocket Robin Update

So Rich and I have been playing the Rocket Robin game again and he's made it up all the way up to 450,802 meters. Well, I was playing some this morning and I got 442,873 meters! I'm sooooo excited.

Just a screen shot of my amazing altitude!

So, how far can you make it?

It's Been An Early Morning...

This morning Rich and I were woken out of a dead sleep...well Rich was anyway. I got up at 4:30 because I had to use the bathroom and then I couldn't fall back asleep. I was almost back asleep when, at 5:00 there is an instant, gushing water sound. It sounded like there was water just pouring down the outside of our bedroom wall, only it wasn't outside...it was coming from next door. We were both pretty awake after a minute or so and we both thought, that's the sprinkler system.
While we were trying to figure out what was going on, the fire alarms started going off. Now these aren't your normal fire alarms like you have in your house...no these are like the ones you find in schools. We even have one of those really loud red boxes right outside our bedroom door and a bell that goes off outside. So as soon as those start going Rich and I get dressed and head outside. So we're standing outside for a minute or so and I say, "look at all the water poring off the porch of the apartment next door to ours!" Oddly enough the guy standing next to us was the guy that lived there. He said that it wasn't his because the water was pouring down his sliding door, so he thought it was someone above him.
After a little longer I noticed that there wasn't even the sound of firetrucks. I told Rich, "good thing this isn't a real fire, because it's sure taking the fire department a long time to get here!" A few minutes later the fire department did show up complete with oxygen tanks and axes. We immediately thought, someone's door is going to be bashed in. (Luckily no one's door was actually bashed in.)
It turns out that, each apartment has a sprinkler outside on their porch as well as sprinklers inside. The sprinkler outside on our neighbors porch had gone off. The firemen were really confused because sprinklers are supposed to do that, they don't go bad or get set off accidentally...they should only go off for a reason. So they had to replace the sprinkler before we were allowed back inside. They fixed the sprinkler, but I noticed they were still trying to figure it out while we all went back inside.
We ended up standing outside for about an hour in total. Luckily it wasn't raining like it's supposed to today...
So that was our morning. I'm completely awake now and I can tell it's going to be a loooong day. Now what am I going to do for 3 and a half hours until class starts?

Fun Game

Tonight, Rich was looking at a web site and I saw that they had some games on it. I decided that we should try one out and we ended up getting addicted to it. Here's the link to it so you can try it out for yourselves.

http://www.topgear.com/uk/games/rocket-robin

Rich's highest score was a little over 403,000 meters and mine was a little over 400,000 meters. Have fun and let us know how high you got in the atmosphere!

Plant Update...Again!

First, let me just say that I'm sorry that I haven't updated the blog in a while. Things have been busy and there hasn't been a whole lot going on to update you with. I did, however, want to update you on all our plants and what happened last weekend!

So about two weekends ago now, Rich and I were sitting outside because it was nice and sunny and warm. We were sitting there and all of a sudden Rich says, "Let's refinish the table!" So we went to Home Depot and he got a sander and some polyurethane (we already had some stain). He was so happy to have a project to do. Here's a picture of Rich working away...He was whistling most of the time because he was so happy!

Now onto some plants...
This last weekend we went up to St Helens and I came home with tomato plants, a bell pepper plant, lettuce seeds, carrot seeds and parsley seeds. We also built some planter boxes for all these veggies to go. I designed the boxes, Rich cut the wood and screwed a lot of one together (I did one side by myself) and then last night I made the other box all by myself! We got home and I planted all my veggies and ended up transplanting the potato to one of the boxes so the potatoes can grow a little bigger. When I transplanted the potato I found lots of little red potatoes growing...I was so excited! Now all our plants are getting bigger and enjoying the sun. I can't wait until the middle of summer so we can start harvesting some stuff!

Here are some pictures of our boxes and the new plants. Oh, and one of the wildflowers I planted with one of the bigger pots of daliahs, zennias, and lavendar.

Planter box

Tomatoes and bell pepper (carrot seeds and parsley seeds are in there too)

Look at the strawberry...it's getting red!

The potato plant

The wildflowers and other flower pot

I Almost Forgot!

Oh my, how could I have forgotten to update for this! Last week I was accepted into the school of Interior Design here at Oregon State! I'm so happy to actually get back into those design classes. Now everyone knows :)

The Potatoes Are Coming! The Potaotes Are Coming!

The weather has been pretty weird around here these past few week. Sometimes it's sunny and then it starts to rain and then it gets warm and really muggy feeling. I don't like that it changes so much but our plants sure seem to enjoy it! This past weekend we left to go see some family and when we came back the potato plants had easily doubled in size...maybe even tripled! All of the other plants went nuts too growing twice as big as before. I guess we should leave town more often, our plants seem to like to grow when they're alone.

Here is what the potato looked like before we left:

And this is what it looked like when we came home:
Here are what the flowers looked like before we left:
Here is the same pot once we got home:

Here is a picture of our hanging baskets...they have been growing a lot!
And here are some strawberry plants we got this weekend (THANKS JOANN!)
I can't wait to watch them grow and eat some yummy strawberries!
(They still need a little more soil but I'm working on it :) )