Spring 2014

Snow Alan's DC Trip Hikes

Alan and Joe Delatte worked together on a Rube-Goldburg challenge for science class.

The challenge this year was to blow bubbles at the the end, having gone through at least 10 steps using a variety of modes of energy transfer, such as thermal, chemical, and acoustic, not just mechanical.

Alan and Joe had melting ice dripping on a paper towel that then broke, releasing a lever, for one of their steps. Another one was the dissolving of mentos tablets in soda at the end to produce the desired bubbles.

If you want to watch the project in action, click here.

Happy Birthday, Roger!

Cake with relatives.

A good omen to spot one in our yard!

Anne's mother came for a visit in late April for the Hubbell Family Historical Society Board of Directors meeting, held in Middleburg Heights.

After the BoD meeting, Margie Hlava stayed over an extra day and we explored the national park.

This is Brandywine Falls.

We'd never seen it with quite this much water.

Side waterfalls popped into existence, too.

On the way back across Vaughn, we splashed through more water than we should have.

As we came out of the water approaching the park headquarters buildings, there were the police, closing the road.

new grill

resident snake by the front door

Alan made lemonade from the fresh-picked lemons.

Creek behind the house.

The Granny Smith apple tree finally decided to bloom this year!

so did the Honeycrisp apple.

Pluots and plum.

New pluot tree to replace the one decimated by a car in January.

This family wanted to shop at Marc's, too.

Dinner at Sentinel with Uncle Jerry's visit as the excuse.

Jerry and Glen put up railings for the steps.

Sarah sent these.

We celebrated Glen's birthday a month early so he could use the battery-powered fan gift when working on his backyard step project (pics in the Summer 2014 album).

Alan made a very special chocolate and peanut butter cheesecake for Mrs. D'Allesandro, his counselor at the MS. Thank you for three years of attention and caring.

Glen's Dad fell and broke his hip on June 9th, starting a cascade of medical adventures.

Front yard herb garden.