Day 131
1st June 2022
Create
Our kids love to create!
This morning, after a gnarly dream, I was in a bit of a daze while making my smoothy and so I didn’t realise that Lincoln & Mila had already started the day.
Lincoln was drawing a template for a tool he wanted to make, and Mila was making blue sugar balls. (?)
Rice Terrace
When the sugar balls were in the fridge, I began reading from our World History book.
We learnt that in ancient China, most people were farmers. They grew a type of grain that people in Egypt & Mesopotamia couldn’t grow.
Rice.
Rice will only grow where the ground is very wet for most of the year.
The ground near the Yellow River, in China, stayed wet for months and months & rice could grow here.
We learnt how the Chinese grew rice on terraces, as the countryside was very mountainous.
We went to YouTube for a closer look.
They loved the design and beauty of the terraces and we learnt that most Chinese farmers make their money from the tourists who come to see the rice terraces.
We also saw rice terraces when we went to Bali, a few years ago.
Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXqTil6KpNw
Scavenger Hunters
Next, we got dressed for the day and headed out to find steel for Lincolns project and Mila wanted clothes for her Koala. 🙄 (She has two teddies both dressed in organic cotton onesies!)
I walked past Mila’s room and saw her putting on her clip-on earrings & couldn’t resist capturing the moment.
Little sweetheart.
We only needed a little bit of steel, so we went to the tip for a good rummage through the buy back.
But it was closed. 😣
So, we went to Bunnings, but they only had very thin steel sheeting, and this wasn’t thick enough, Linc said.
Next it was off to an actual steel supplier & guess what? We bought steel! 😂
It’s 10mil thick and a meter long, by say 15cm.
Linc is so stoked! He’s headed to Nana & Pa’s for a sleepover this weekend and Pa’s going to help him cut it with an angle grinder.
At the charity shop, we found lots of clothes for Mila’s bear.
Charity shops & garage sales are our favourite!
Onesie, hoodie and beanie. This is warmest Koala alive.
At Bunnings, she found a box for a bed and safely escorted him down the escalator. 😂
After that it was home time, to do, whatever.
We watched the rest of Obi Wan Kenobi and Pepe sat with us on the sofa.
He never does this!
He’s so polite, we’ve tried coaxing him up for cuddles with treats but nope, he never gets on the sofa.
Sometimes we find him there in the morning when we wake up, but he quickly moves off.
Lincoln decided he wanted to make Bombe Alaska (which is in the science book) and so he got started on that, while I did a few jobs online & Mila watched Mrs Doubtfire.
Tomorrow, I start my new job.
Eeeek!
