My Project- By Nya

My project is for school. I decided to see which laundry soap would work the best, store bought or home made. To make the home made laundry soap we needed some ingredients. What we needed were different kinds of soap, hot water, a cheese grater, and a bucket. Next I grated one bar of soap. When there was just a little soap left in my hand, I looked inside the grater and there was a big pile of soap.Then we put the soap into a pot of 4 cups of hot water. I stirred until it was just bubbles. Then we got out a bucket and filed it with 3 gallons of water, 1/2 cup Borax, and 1 cup Washing Soda. After that we stirred it.

After I finished stirring it, we got two white shirts. Then we put mustard all over them. We washed one with store bought detergent. We washed the other with our home made detergent.

We marked the shirts on their tags with a "T" for Tide and an "H" for home. Here are our results. . .

The home made detergent didn't clean off the mustard. Neither did the Tide. In conclusion, both detergents worked the same. They both smelled good, but the mustard was still there. My mom is going to have to use bleach!

Chicken Dance?

This morning during breakfast Corbin asked me if I've had the chicken pox. I said "Yes, when I was a child I did get the chicken pox."

Corbin responded "If I ever get the chicken pox I will do the chicken dance and flap them away, those stupid pox."

I love him! Hopefully due to his having had the chicken pox vaccine, he won't have to worry about doing any flapping.

The Wind. . .

Last night we had a wind storm. The gusts were up to 66 mph. Here is a photo of our trampoline after the storm.

Considering it was straddling our neighbors fence upside down, I consider it to be in pretty good shape. I didn't get a photo of it on the fence. I was pretty shocked last night and didn't think to before we had removed it. In this photo you can see the corner of the trampoline, and the fence it was straddling. Part of the tramp was resting on the house to the left, while the rest was sitting on top of the neighbors truck. You can look at the photo and picture our trampoline sitting up there. Unfortunately, the screen on Nya's bedroom window was also ripped off, so I was able to take these shots from her room. The closeup of this rain gutter on our neighbors home shows you where the tramp was resting.
Here is a pic of what happened to our neighbors pergola. Unfortunately, they are both out of town.

I am just thankful the no one was injured in any of these situations.