{"id":14342,"date":"2021-04-28T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=14342"},"modified":"2021-04-28T21:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T01:38:47","slug":"grandgirls-ferbank-newsletters-4-28-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=14342","title":{"rendered":"Grandgirls! Ferbank! Newsletters! 4.28.21"},"content":{"rendered":"

I liked this.
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Love my girls!
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Studied Spanish. If you want to make progress, that’s what it takes.<\/p>\n

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Everly wanted her friend’s little sister to have the trike.
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Now that I know about these Nanday Parakeets that somehow have made it up from Florida, I look for them at the same super high power pole.<\/p>\n

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I told the girls that it was time for little geese “goslings” to be showing up. Then I saw the little ones with their parents today!
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I always get kind of excited when I discover a poem that I want to memorize. The poem Earth Day by Jane Yolen is one of them. She wrote the poem for Earth Day.<\/p>\n

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I usually write the author a quick note just to say how much I love the piece and that I am committing it to memory.
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So I went on her website and left an email for her.<\/p>\n

As I’m learning it, it occurred to me I should record it and send her my recitation of it. Because I can tell you, I will WAIL with this piece.<\/p>\n

OYB!
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Jesse and the girls and I went to Fernbank Science Center. We had a splendid time. I ordered the tickets on line.
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The girls had fun building things until it was time to leave to go see the museum. You reserved a time to visit. We chose 11:00am. You could stay as long as you wanted. It didn’t seem crowded at all.
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We had a beautiful drive over to Fernbank. All the yards are so gorgeous.<\/p>\n

I liked this polypore before we even got in the building.
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So cool.
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We had pizza and hotdogs with chips and an ice cream bar. We split all the food up. The girls eat better that way.
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We spent a good bit of our time outside this trip.
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They had a display of super high resolution bugs that was amazing.
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Not quite the same.
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\nThey had some cool dinosaurs.
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Fun, interactive exhibits<\/p>\n

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I’ve really been into owls lately.
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\nI’ve always enjoyed seeing the fossils in the staircases.<\/p>\n

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We loved the outside stuff. It was still cool enough to be fun. Soon, it’ll be too hot to enjoy it.
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We split a cold Coke when we got back.
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Warm!
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A lot of the time the internet wasn’t good in the museum. I’m sure we walked over 3.2 miles.
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There was a LOT of Poison Ivy growing out there. The girls are getting better at being able to identify what the plant looks like. Here’s a good puzzle of which one is the bad one?
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Picked up the newsletters at my office. Also watered my Ficus, picked up my wireless microphones and transmitter, and put some new instruments in the Golden Boxes of Jam
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Got stamps for the newsletters. I was hoping to get some labels done this evening. Not going to happen.
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The machine had some type of problem and was only able to print the single stamps. I got fifty single stamps rather than sheets. Took a LONG time to print.
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\nThey ran out of these.<\/p>\n

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Gassed up the car. Checked fluids.
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Cleaned and refilled bird baths.
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Setting up gear in preparation for doing the labels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I liked this. Love my girls! Studied Spanish. If you want to make progress, that’s what it takes. Everly wanted her friend’s little sister to have the trike. Now that I know about these Nanday Parakeets that somehow have made it up from Florida, I look for them at the same super high power pole. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14346,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions\/14346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}