Pinewood Derby and Lost Tooth

Underfoot participated in his Cub Pack's Pinewood Derby. He didn't care if he won or not. He just wanted to have fun. And he did. He didn't win.

 The pack held an early weight-in which made our morning very smooth for an 8 am race day. He raced his car 6 times on the 6 lane track, cheered for his friends, and ate muffins and juice at the end.

Hurricane lost his tooth. The tooth started to be loose in November. He didn't want to loose it until my birthday in February. He would push the tooth out of his mouth so it would hang over his lip with his mouth closed. This looked gross.

So finally this last week I told him if he didn't go to bed I would take out his tooth. He didn't go to bed so I pulled the tooth out. He got 25 cents out of the deal.

Lance's sister, Yvette, and 3 of her children came to visit as they drove through on their way home from a trip from Florida.

We were excited to have them visit for 24 hours. We went to both visitor centers for the Saguaro National Park.

All the children worked and received their Junior Ranger badges.

Lance pulled out the International Scout for a drive with Yvette.

Their Grandparents Locey took their grandchildren  in the Scout. When filling the car with fuel, the fuel line broke because the gas line tubing had cracked. Lance lay down on the ground and plugged the line with his finger until he remembered he had a pen in the jockey box of the Scout. After 2 trips to the auto parts store, the fuel filter was replaced with new clamps. We are grateful that the problem occurred at the gas station instead of driving down the road. Lance and Yvette rode together catching up.

We finished pruning our trees as the East Coast got piled with snow.

We got snow too the week before. We put a light on the citrus trees and took pictures.

We've started tracking the number of eggs we get each day following the example at Camp Kirkham. Since January 1, we've collected 93 eggs as of Saturday.

We've added a light to their coop so the ladies are getting 14 hours of light. The egg production went up after they finished molting and got more light. We've even had 1 double yolk egg.

Be Well.