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Tectonic Tour: Mount St. Helens

November 22, 2010

Scout (above, in front of Mount St. Helens) is an earth-sciences junkie who enjoys reading about volcanoes and earthquakes. She loves to share facts about pyroclastic flows. She’s thrilled to live on the “Ring of Fire.” She gets a kick out of scrutinizing plate-tectonics maps of the world and pointing out that Vancouver is, in [...]

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How in the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks Did She Fit All This Stuff in Her Pocket?!?

October 11, 2010

Yesterday the little family did a border run to Point Roberts, WA, where we stopped for lunch at our usual place (Brewster’s). Naturally it was raining. (Or as my poetic daughter likes to say, “the rain was hurling itself at us.”) After we all settled into our seats, and while her dad and I perused [...]

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Bahn Mi or Bust

August 20, 2010

Today Scout and I drove off to buy a new homeschool globe, but (and this is typical) within a few minutes of not finding the map-and-globe store, we scraped that idea and decided to hunt down some Vietnamese subs instead. Hmmm, where to go, where to go. At first we drove around aimlessly, but soon [...]

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