Thanks giving

Thanksgiving      

Thanksgiving is on Thursday meaning there is a four day holiday weekend! four whole days!

 On Thursday at two pm we went to a small thanks giving party at our friend Randy’s house. I was the only kid there so I mostly entertained myself while the adults chatted about  Heatedly debated politics and matters like that. The food was delicious though, there was turkey (of course ?) and tofurky (I am trying to be a vegetarian) two kinds of gravy and lots (and lots lots lots lots) of other food  I came closer to stuffing myself than I have in three years, In case you haven’t noticed I am the reasonable one in the family. The dogs were sitting a little out of the way by a glass door and making puppy-eyes at me through the glass(????) next thing I know there is one of the adults calling; “Hey do you know your Daughter dumping food on the dogs?”? And then my Mom:” What” me:”?”  Mom:”?” me:”?” Mom:”?” me:”? he he”… anyway…Moving on to Friday!!!!! Friday I cleaned my room which took the whole day. Because It looked Horrible. Then on Saturday we had EV owners come over to decorate there cars (Leafs)? for the Christmas parade.  The definite winner was Theresa who covered her car with about 35 strings of LED lights each with  about 50 single lights plus one 300 light strand, and that would mean 35 strings of lights•50 lights =1750 lights and the extra 300 = 2050 lights on the car. You may think that isn’t that much but here is the result
In the end there were abut 9-10 lights per square foot on the car all secured in place with (Drum roll please) common blue packing tape… But (another drum roll please) It matches the car Almost perfectly. And from these facts you can guess  that because the packing tape is blue, and it matches the car, THE CAR IS BLUE!!













November 2017

A beautiful tree at the KHS dogpark

The moon was spectacular several times, the rainbows around it were really colorful





Leilani loves baking pies – apple and pumpkin


I harvested more pumpkins this year than in the rest of my life together, close to 50 I think and still going strong in the end of December…

Some don’t grow quite where you’d expect


Green Kauai team preparing for the Blue Planet Student Energy Summit

Blue Planet Student’s Energy Summit

Mid November I took a group of Leilani’s friends to Oahu to learn about renewable energy. I went to Blue Planet Foundation’s teacher training at the same time and liked it so much that I applied for a teaching position at Harmony home school – starting in January I’ll be teaching renewable energy and sustainability.



















EV Riders Cruzin’

The Kauai EV drivers went on a spectacularly beautiful scenic island drive – sadly we took no pictures of the scenic beauty, but lots of car pictures instead.










Robotics

Leilani participated in a robot-built with the Kauai home school team “Pueo Bots” (Pueo is the native owl).









Leilani also designed a logo for the “Pueo Bots”