Noah's Pitching Machine-Video

Homeschooling is entirely too much fun. Noah (11) invented a pitching machine using leaf blowers and pvc pipes. Our neighbor's grandson, Aaron helped us test it. Benjamin (14) helped operate it and Andrew (15) made a movie of it. And their mother? Well, she just delighted in it! Thought you might enjoy it too.

Videos UNAVAILABLE

The videos on this blog will be unavailable for awhile. A few weeks ago Homeschool View Tube closed down and the video files were on it's server. Before the website closed down our videos all together had over 30,000 views!
I'll try to re-embed all of the videos, but there are well over 50 and it may take me a few weeks. If you'd like to see a particular video just comment on this post and I will let you know when it'll be available.

Visiting the Inyart Family

Today we visited our friends, the Inyart family-it was David’s 21st Birthday and we sure had a whole lot of fun with him. Watch a video from our trip.

It was fun to be on a farm for a day…we even got to try milking a cow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We brought a few guns with us and got to do some target practice.

We also made the movie, “A Shady Fortune.”

Paintball

Today we had fun playing in our first paintball game! The CHEF of Missouri hosts a paintball game every February.

Checking Beaver Traps-Pictures

This morning I (Andrew) joined Benjamin on his daily trip to his beaver traps. It snowed during the night and left about 4 inches. The reason why I joined Ben was to get some good photographs of the creek. You'll see them below:

Trapping Beaver-Photos

Benjamin's been trapping just about anything from oppossums to raccoons to squirrels. When the trapping season ended in January Benjamin began researching beaver trapping. After finding what he needed he purchased a few Beaver traps and then place them in the creek nearby. He also received permission to trap on 120 acres of farmland.

Missouri law dictates that you have to place Beaver traps in water and you must check them every 24 hours. Every morning Benjamin treks through the fields to check his traps. It's 1/2 of a mile each way. On Feburary 3 all of his hard work paid off.

The beaver's teeth are dyed yellow from the trees it continually chews through.

Here are the beaver's webbed feet.

We went ice skating with our cousins at Queeny Park.

Sledding-Pictures

Hopefully I'll have a video up soon..