He worked a 28/7day shift at Cape Preston - or "Cape Depress-ton" as it has come to be known. Once sorted at Barrow he should be doing 26/9days, so slightly better for us !! :D yay!!
It's a little complicated, He's employed by Coates, contracted through Theiss and working for Chevron....I think???
Anyway in the lovely 3 weeks preceding Friday, we had Jamie home for most of the time.Our first weeks adventures i have told you about already, but some of our weekend/afternoon adventures, were just as fun :D
Pinching the idea from a friend's blog, I issued Samuel the task of building a floating crane. BUT, because he is older, after showing him L's creation, I told him he could NOT use his boat bases.
Well it wasn't long before we were all sucked into
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| Yes.... there IS a shark in the bathtub ;D |
Lily
Samuel, (as usual) copied Daddy's plan for making a barge type thing, where-as Kaytie and I made more 'traditional' type boat shapes. Even Sophie joined in, and in the floating stability part of the criteria, she aced it!! 'points' were taken off for her lack of a working crane though ;D
Jamie decided to go with a 'hydraulic' set up for his crane, so got full 'points' there, but lost 'points' for design and stability.
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| you see the water line? It was a lot worse before i adjusted the crane arm for the photo :D and you see the propellor? MY idea - you just can't see it on mine, as it's UNDER water - where it should be ;D |
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| He got extra 'points' for his safety considerations :) |
Kaytie struggled, because she was adamant about the zillion foot long propeller, and couldn't compensate for the displacement(???). but a great effort i thought :)
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| Though the fact that she couldn't find a big enough base , didn't help the floating part. |
And why have i left mine to the end??? Cos i think it's AWESOME lol - nothing humble and modest about my feelings about my effort ;D Mine was the only one that stayed level, took the longest to seep water into it, had 360 degree crane movement AND it was functional,.....in theory. i even had a gruesome collection of 'booty' on board - My pirate was salvaging lego heads eeew :D
Samuel asked why i had a "magnet" head for the crane if i was salvaging heads? I said it was because of all the gold in their teeth...until Jamie reminded me that gold isn't magnetic. D'oh!!
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| I couldn't tie the wool tight enough on the crossbar, but everything turned I promise ;) |
But our little competition has spawned a whole new creating madness in the house. My front room has now turned into a "legoworld"! and i am awoken each morning to sounds of handfuls of lego being pushed around a mat and children
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| halfway through the process of a tidy up :S |
A close up of our collaboration....
The white tower is "Rapunzel Kaytie's" tower next door to the eco-friendly, self sufficient windmill.
The blue plates running through it all is the water/river (d'uh) complete with sharks!! The white low building is the zoo, with various animal display/enclosures - a work in progress. The white car is/was meant to be Herbie the Lovebug. The yellow car is meant to be a Mustang i think? another work in progress. And the truck cab you can see head-on?? WOW that thing deserves a post all on it's own!! a mammoth effort!! by Samuel and Daddy (and Steve) has been worked on and refined for months!! it also has a trailer and accesories out of shot. The vehicle between the cab and mustang is a support vehicle for the zoo and truck. Oh yes the little yellow vehicle in front of the zoo, is a airport baggage car/truck/thingy, (built by moi) which has inspired some aeroplanes - in progress - to fulfil it :D - they call that strewing don't they?? heh heh heh.
And last but not least is the blue/black building, which i believe is the staff quarters for the Zoo. that's a team meeting table, and a vet surgery somewhere?
WOW, maybe i should rename the post Lazy days in Legoland or something?? Well it hasn't ALL been Lego, we visited the local Wanneroo Museum/Library/Cultural Centre with homeschool friends, didn't get many photos though. They have an AWESOME play area at the front for the littlies, but some older children found it hard to drag themselves away also :)
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| It's a kinda farm theme, as that's what the areas history is. In fact the unofficial mascot is a cow, i.e City Of Wanneroo |
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| Balancing on a 'surfboard' apparently Quinn Rocks (a bit more north of us) was a popular holiday destination |
Jamie got all domesticated and pretty much cooked dinner every night (and did all the washing!!! thank you thank you!!) He has re-perfected his roast vegies again, he lost that skill for a couple of years, i think about the time he became so busy with the lightbars?? He is also becoming an expert baker, baking biscuits and things for the children. We cooked up a batch of sweet chilli sauce, with homegrown chillies from our neighbours - It was an "epicurean delight" according to them :D He also made (under my supervision ;p) us a loaf of bread too, completely from scratch - no mixing in a breadmaker!
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| He's telling me to go away and stop taking his photo |
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| Half of the finished result. Mmmm nom nom |
I must go now as my fingers are quite frozen and i keep hitting the wrong keys, but i'll leave y'all with just one more piccy, it's one of my fav's :D
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| Sophie the intellectual :D |
OX(OX)oxoxoxoxox
B(J)slkcs
PS I've re-opened this post and edited dodgy spelling here and there, when i re-publish it, does that mean it gets sent to your inboxes again?? Let me know, and I'll try be more diligent with my spelling in future...or you can just ignore my bad grammar and spelling errors??? (LOL had to re-correct spelling, I keep writing 'speeling' HaHa)
