MARCH 2013

Levelling the floor

Slightly out-of-order post here. I wanted to go back and talk about how Tom leveled our floors.

As with most renovations of older homes, we found that the structure of the house had taken a bit of a beating with renovations that had occurred over the last 60 years. In addition, in that time, the back of the house had...

Science Outreach

Crossposted from the Scimatic Blog.

A few weeks ago, I took some time to do “science outreach” with my son’s Grade 3 class. Nothing fancy – the teacher had asked for volunteers for their “Scientist in the Schools” program. I had been the parent volunteer before, for units on recycling and insects, but this one was right up my alley...