Kelli, Luke, and Sabra arrived yesterday. My mother has ceased to have any function other than baby talk. She is very funny. Of course we now have four generations represented in this house. Greatgrandparents, grandfather, mother, and baby. How cool is that?

Work is progressing on the boat shaped baby cradle. Dad and I have been making the pieces. Now we are ready to put it together. It's been a fun project and it's been great to work with Dad on it.

I really miss Wakana. I was looking through the photo album a few minutes ago and felt quite homesick. Strange to feel that while sitting in my ancestral home.

Back when I was a kid my grandmother had a set of Scientific American from 1871. I used to enjoy looking through them when we visited her. I thought they'd been lost when she had to leave her old house but it turns out my father has them. The articles are fun to read. One states with great authority that the breechloading rifle will never be as accurate as the muzzleloader.