We were lucky to secure a spot next to Tropical Sno, Rosie’s Perogies, and the bounce house castle. The glorious weather yielded a great and happy crowd, including some of Tomalei’s new and old neighbors. Tomalei managed to catch a whale, and later shared a watermelon Gatorade with him. We even got to meet the …
Spectacular day at the 48th Annual Bellefonte Children’s fair – June 3 Read More »
April 12 – Sexual Assault and Prevention Month Event (Penn State, University Park) With our colleagues from the Penn State Gender Equity Center and the Peace Paper Project, we enthusiastically engaged students, faculty, and other adult learners at our first Penn State event. As a part of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM), this …
April was busy with community engagement and travel! Read More »
We have created two ornaments based on our “Twelve Days of Christmas” earring design. Check out the pictures! These are made from paper pulp leftover from our earring making process. The scraps are soaked in water, put in a blender and pulp is made. Thick “sheets” of paper pulp are formed and allowed to dry. …
Towards the end of March as Mary and I were winding up a month long trip in Florida by visiting our daughter attending college in Sarasota our life size and life like paper pulp version of a nurse shark disappeared. Our trailer was parked in a hotel parking lot over night when it was broken …
This October I fully immersed myself into a watery parallel universe, a sister-verse to the Bird-verse I reside in most of the year. The Reef Environmental Education Foundation, REEF.org, holds it’s Reef Fest in Key Largo every fall to empower citizen scientists enthusiastic about fish and reef habitat to go out looking for and identifying …
Last weekend we set up our both at the Winter Market organized by our local Discovery museum and maker space. It was very exciting to be participating an event like this finally! In order to maintain social distancing people had to reserve a time to enter in advance but it was fully booked and so …
Mary and I took made a trip east to New Jersey as far as the seashore to explore and visit some business locations. We had some supplies to pick up in Lancaster which inspired our making the trip rather than paying the cost of shipping 50 lbs of earring backs. A company called Lancaster Metals …
8/7 There is still a lot to do before leaving Colorado. First I stopped at a Wild Birds Unlimited in Ft. Collens to drop off some samples and then not far is the Gardens on Spring Creek with a gift shop and a history of buying our earrings. However, they have none of our earrings …
8/3 Presumably the newlyweds are on their way to Yellowstone National Park on their honeymoon camping trip. It is time for me to head back east. I had spent some time studying the map for a route and a place called the Flat Top Wilderness called out to me. It was more or less due …
Dinosaur National Monument and the Flat Tops Wilderness Read More »
7/30. Finally it is time to catch up with my family in Mountain Green, UT, where my brother and wife and where their grown children live near by. The reason for my journey across the country this weird summer is my niece is getting married on Sunday. The wedding had to be cancelled from its spring …
