Homeschool Fossil Lab

Okay so it is not a laboratory but a garage works for pounding with hammers and trying to break open rocks to find fossils.

We are currently studying sedimentary rocks and fossils in our homeschooling science class. So we used a large portion of mudstone from the Stone Rose center in Republic, WA as a sample for the boys to experience what it is like to uncover fossils deposited in sediments. It was a blast. They did a great job and had fun. We found some small fragments of plant parts. We also looked at other remains and impressions from our trip last summer. (see post from last year).

The only other shot I got was of the destruction from the days activities.

Thanks to Grandpa Robinson for providing the large slab of mudstone. I cut it with a tile saw to get four manageable pieces with good flat edges for the boys to work on. We had a great time and learned that you don't always find a fossil in every spot that is exposed.

Tony

Old video and Gabe playing lax

I finally found the video of the boys during SNOWMAGEDDON 2012... not really the most violent shorts but they wanted them posted for all to see.

In the mean time we haved moved on to Lacrosse season. Here are a couple shots of Gabe and a short video, remember to look for the dark red helmet.

As the game came to an exciting close in the few short last seconds of the 5 to 5 tie, a scrum developed in front of the Snohomish team goal. Gabe dove in and fought hard for the ball. The timing bench started yelling out the ten second countdown to end the game 10, 9, 8....the scrum flipped the ball out onto open grass, 7, 6, 5 Gabe scooped the ball turned to the goal, 4, 3 and shot through three defenders and the goaliee to score the last second game winning goal. He turned to face his team and with his stick raised high into the air screamed in amazement, "IT WENT IN!" We actually saw the ball magically thread the needle of arms, legs, sticks and bodies to find the upper corner of the net. It was magical!! But as bad luck would have it no one was holding a camera in the directon of the action.

That's the short update for now. Hope this finds you well. I will get some updates from my last trip to Haiti soon. Still looking into getting some photos from the trip photographer.

Tony