By Mikal | April 28, 2009
You have 20 meters of fencing material and a plot of lakeside pasture. What’s the largest area of land you can fence off, assuming you can use the shore as a boundary?
Sixth grade math is fun. It’s starting to get challenging enough where you have to think a little, but not so much that you [...]
By Mikal | April 19, 2009
The Austin Harts got a happy treat this weekend when our beloved cousin Jarrod (Hageman) drove over from Houston. It wasn’t that we actually got to see him; no, he spent the whole weekend cavorting with his girlfriend a few miles up the highway and failed to drop by even for a quick “hello”. But [...]
By Mikal | April 12, 2009
Today’s notes come from just outside the spray’s reach at the base of the mighty Multnomah waterfall. When I’m in Oregon I sometimes drive out here after work to hike up the overlook trail and bask in the windy fury of what is proudly billed as “the second highest continuously flowing waterfall in the US”. [...]
It was another exciting baseball week as Gabe’s team absolutely dismantled the last remaining undefeated team. We took the boys to the Sonic Drive-in down the street from the ball field and treated them to Slushies – not just “regular” ones, but, because they had exceeded the predetermined stolen base count or something, extra large [...]