Apple Picking

We went up to Indiana to go apple picking on Friday with E- whom we haven't seen in quite a while.  I wasn't sure if Cora would be able to participate because she had received a shot in her leg on Thursday.  During her nap she woke up crying that her leg hurt.  She fell back asleep only to wake up again later.  She was miserable throughout the evening and could hardly walk.  She was limping a little in the morning but it cleared up by the time we arrived at the orchard.

The trees had so many apples in reach that it took about a minute to get more apples than we needed.  We stopped in the store and bought a few other things then went to the playground.  The playground charges admission but there was nobody there to collect money.  We had the kids stay out of the area and play with the animal statues.  Eventually one of the kids went into the paid area.  We were hesitant to go in without paying but we gradually lost our apprehension about that.  In addition to the play area they have other activities like a pony ride which wasn't operating while we were there.  The favorite thing was the 40 foot barn slide.  They built a smaller scale barn and attached a large black pipe as a slide from the top area.  Bohdin and E- loved it the most.  Nyla and Cora did it several times as well.

Different deer in our backyard.  This time it was a buck and a doe.


Bohdin has an idea for solving global warming.  I'll share it in his own words.

Power plants produce carbon dioxide which is warming up the planet.  The current solution is to capture carbon dioxide and turn it into carbon rich chemicals and store them underground.  My solution is to separate the carbon from the oxygen in carbon dioxide and then put all the carbon together in a pyramid structure to make diamonds.  Then you have a power plant producing diamonds AND electricity.  But you can't do that too much because without carbon dioxide we would run out of oxygen. 

I asked him how the process would generate electricity but he dodged the question.  I decided not to ask him about the energy required to split molecules or any other details.  He did add that it would be really cool if it would rain diamonds.  I was impressed with how well he presented his idea.  Sometimes he doesn't sound like a seven year old.