We went to a friend's house for dinner last night, she made a great lasagna and lots of vegetables which I love. They had been to a family wedding in Bermuda this summer and groups of them rented these 1 to 5 million dollar homes by the coast to stay in for the week of festivities. So it cost between 3 and 7 thousand dollars in rent split between 3 or so families per house. Apparently hotels are more expensive. Maybe we can stop there sometime on one of those cruise ships.
L got a great new Babolat tennis racket, so she's really happy (now she has more control of the ball). M and K went downtown to the Raptor's basketball game. There's a lot going on today, with the Santa Clause parade and an Argonaut football game. They took the subway.
I'm reading about food chains and the carbon cycle in K's Science book. He didn't do so well on the last Science test, so I'm trying to force some help on him. It's interesting stuff. The Priestley experiment, conducted 200 years ago demonstrated how dependent plants and animals are on each other. He had 3 glass jars. He put a mouse in one, a plant in one, and a mouse and a plant in another one. Well, the mouse alone died. But the mouse and plant survived together. Plants provide oxygen and sugars, animals provide carbon dioxide and water. That sort of stuff.
I just figured out roughly how many stamps I need to get to mail my Xmas cards.
News
Noah's ark flood spurred European farming
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071118/sc_nm/farming_flood_dc_1
Bed bugs a creeping fear for residents, landlords
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071115/bedbug_spread_071117/20071117?hub=TorontoHome
Bloor St. condo breaks record for priciest unit sold
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20071117/record_condo_071117/20071117?hub=TorontoHome
Tallest condo in Canada coming to downtown T.O.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_16840.aspx
Amazon to unveil e-book reader
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071116/tc_nm/amazon_ebook_dc_3
1 comment:
Hi Christine, I had to laugh at your post about helping your son with school. I think one of the many benefits of being a parent is “going back to school as an adult” (aka helping with homework). I'm enjoying a year of British History right now ;-)
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