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Swimming lessons.
Baby A
They love the water!
What do they learn?
How to hold their breath under water
How to climb the wall and get out
How to climb the stairs and get out
How to kick their legs in the water
How to constantly take sun glasses off mom and dad's head
How to splash the other kids
Good stuff
Swimming Lessons (July, 2001)
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Place:Woodinville
Date:2001/07/01 13:13:17
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I didn't get any good pictures, since it was her first lesson I didn't want the other parents to think I was a crazy mom all over the place with my camera...I'll start that lesson #2 :)
Lesson's Motmot - Momotus lessonii lessonii - Диадемовый момот
Los Tarrales Natural Reserve, Patulul, Suchitepéquez Department, Guatemala, 11/06/2021
[more selma hayek inside]
pigghia la palla e mittla sotta lumbrellone - take the ball and put it under the beach umbrella ella ella e e e.
"That is a C!"
Brendan has become quite good at piano after a year of lessons with concert pianist Karen Hutchinson. He never misses any opportunity to practice the piano at his house or ours in Burlingame and the one in our cabin. He is teaching Liam the keys here.
"And you hold it like this."
"Like this?"
"No, like this *fix*"
"Like thiiiiisss? *drops arm*"
"... NO. Like THIS. *fixes hold again*"
"Like..... *drops again* thiiiIIiiiIiiiiIiiiSSsssSSss? ^_____^"
".......... do you want me to break this violin over your head?"
"Maybe! ^_____^"
"............................................................. "
Recent windstorm did a number on Silicon Valley, 54 hour long electric blackout at my Sunnyvale location finally ended last night, but still continuing in parts of nearby Los Altos. This long of a blackout not in my past life experience. It's luxury camping, hot and cold water but no electric service. Cooking by camp stove. WiFi and VOIP telephone connection powered by UPS battery (likely less than half day, 12V 7 Ah when new, modem consumes .5A). Made a DIY cable to allow indefinite WiFi/phone operations powered by any auto battery. Many neighbors went elsewhere.
Some lessons:
1. Big bag of crushed ice in the freezer section did not help enough. It may have buffered some in the beginning, but at the 54 hour point even the frozen veg sitting directly on top of the still ice crushed ice bag had softened, as had all the other meat and frozen vegetables in the freezer. Negligible air circulation in the freezer section I think means the frozen meat and vegetables mainly keep the ice bag cold. Would have to surround the frozen food with ice to protect food better, not practical.
2. No need to open either refrigerator or freezer doors at any time during a blackout if you have tech gadgets. A thermocouple wire temperature probe slips easily past the magnetic seals to tell you the ongoing temperature story.
3. Soy sauce survives just fine (look it up).
4. Professional solder and shrink tube cable making is indeed possible in an extended blackout using the clumsy soldering attachment to the ordinary propane torch. The tip is way too big, but the technique is to make all splices include one excess long wire tail, and put the torch large chisel tip to the tail, put solder on it in excess and let the wire tail conduct heat and solder down to the splice area. After soldering you just cut off the excess tail, slide over the pre-placed shrink tubes and complete the usual way. The requirement for precision tip placement is eased, allowing you to mind where the sideways torch heat is going to avoid setting your arm holding the solder and the cable and surroundings on fire.
5. Ideally such cables are made in advance of need, using the proper connector to the modem that you find in your box of orphan wall wart power cubes. But if you make it during the blackout under primitive conditions, you can benefit from the law of ironic perversity, in that just when you finish and test the cable, the blackout is then shortly to end (in my case 15 hours in advance of the utility company prediction).
6. By my recent daylight experience 1 out of 5 Silicon Valley drivers just blow thru blacked out stoplight controlled intersections. In a blackout, the lights seem to have some limited power backup, but eventually go to all lights out in all directions.
The way for a bicyclist to survive this in heavy traffic is to yield right of way conventionally but once in the intersection do not assume approaching drivers will even see you. Stop halfway in the intersection if anyone is closely approaching from the right. With luck you will see some approaching cars coming from your right ignore the now dark traffic lights and you now stopped in the middle of the intersection, and blow right by you only a few feet away at 30 MPH. Do not presume they will stop or even slow. Then you can clear the remaining half of the intersection in one piece.
7. Although I am not particularly a tablet fan, my $10 Weirdstuff Android tablet delivered good blackout service for email access, better than my power hungry and aging battery laptops. Boots fast and my tablet recharges easily from a USB power brick or charger adaptor that plugs into an auto cigarette lighter socket.
8. Camp stove, matches and fuel stored in my earthquake kit many decades ago performed flawlessly.
9. The way that just in case UPS supplies intended for blackouts fail is that first you discover they produce obscure but annoying radio noise. You turn them off to enjoy less interference and forget about them. Then comes along a blackout and of course their long neglected batteries need replacement.
10. Blackout situations do increase the anticipation and enjoyment of daily vigorous sustained exercise. I ride even in the winter on dry days because it does seem to set a higher metabolic rate and psychological optimism for the rest of the day, and this is very evident in a blackout when indoors goes into the low fifties and sensible people have hit the hotels.
The boys finished up their swim lessons this past week. Jackson learned to swim with his arms, and PJ jumped off the diving board. WOW.
05.04.2009
Many of the kids in Hope's class have either never taken swim lessons or had little experience swimming. Usually the first day of lessons the instructors gauge the children's capabilities by teaching them the skills using the swimming noodle. Of course Hope was overly eager. She asked her instructor if she could swim with out the noodle and to keep from confusing the kids she had her swim once with the noodle still. Though I'm sure she'll do awesome in swim lessons I bet this is the year that she'll be ready to join the swim team. We'll have to see if she's still interested after a month of lessons.