Scott's Science Experiment

A few weeks ago Scott said that he wanted to do a science experiment, one that was listed in some of his Cub Scout pin requirements.

So he took a small pan filled with about a cup of water and froze it.

Then, using a hot pad, he brought it in from the freezer and we proceeded to turn ice into liquid and then to gas.
Melting...

Almost all liquid...


Making gas...

Stephanie had to be in on all the excitement...but we had a successful experiment.

Our Winter Wonderland!

The snow just doesn't seem to want to stop. We even received a few more inches today! And according to the weather report, more is on the way. We truly are having a "White Christmas" this year!

This is the blue spruce in front of the house and it truly is beautiful. I told Steve not to knock off the snow from the bottom branches as they are scheduled to be trimmed anyway...in case the weight of the snow is too much for them. We do have a few trees in the yard that are having some problems from the snow, so that will have to be taken care of.

When the snow first came, it was only an inch or so, and we didn't bother shoveling it. Then on Thursday last week, we got 12.5 inches, so we borrowed a shovel from our back yard neighbor and Steve worked hard at getting a path to the sidewalk and did the full length of the sidewalk. He even started another path from his garage to the sidewalk, when he came in and needed a rest...and sugar. That is when I went out and finished shoveling the path for his car to get out of the garage. My van was not shoveled out at this time.

Then...we got another foot of snow. This time both of us were out there...and the snow was heaver as it had started melting a bit. I used our small pointed shovel while Steve used the borrowed one again. It still took us a long time to get things cleaned up. These pictures show how much snow we piled up on the sides of our driveways...but this time both vehicles can get out of the garage!

Here is Scott helping to clear the sidewalk! We found that he really doesn't like getting cold and would much rather spend his snow days inside playing on his electronics. The boots we got him come off just as soon as he comes in the house!

This is just a pretty picture I took at the back door of our neighbors cedar tree.

Here are some more back yard pictures. One of them I tried to take a close up of the ice on some limbs from the water that dripped off the house.