Month October 2016

Nashville Mini Maker Faire

I love Maker Faires. Traveling around has let me attend quite a few of them. They certainly range in size but "the greatest show and tell on earth" always has something to entertain be it robots, 3-D printers, circuit boards, science experiments, or any number of other do-it-yourself tinkering projects on display. The Nashville contribution is what is considered a "Mini Maker Faire." It only lasted one day in the parking lot of the Adventure Science Center and had the misfortune to coincide with rain. All the same, we were there to see what was up in Nashville.

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Dog Sitting

Black dog with purple ball

Temperature control is a lie you tell your body. That lie dissipates as quickly as sweat droplets form on your skin from the wall of humidity that meets you at the threshold to the outside. The outdoors are for mornings and evenings. But for the next few days, we will be seeking midday shelter in the home of a friend outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

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Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan covers 22,404 square miles of the earth's surface—slightly smaller than West Virginia—with 1,640 miles of shore line. That makes it the fifth largest lake lake in the world. With 1,180 cubic miles of water, It is also the second largest of the Great Lakes of North America by volume.

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