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Lee and I started playing chess together. (7/1/24)
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This is the look they gave me any time they worked out one of my "tricky" plans. (7/1/24)
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They beat me soundly, figuring out and foiling every single one of my plans. It was really fun. (7/1/24)
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Baking cakes and picking plums. (7/2&6/24)
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Time for a week at the beach. (7/7/24)
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Driftwood forts and weapons. (7/7/24)
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Drawing a big cat. (7/7/24)
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Drawing bigger and bigger fish. (7/7/24)
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Finding a little critter. (7/7/24)
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Little critters are delightful. (7/7/24)
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Sandcastles and buried in sand. (7/8/24)
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While the rest of us play in the sand, Lane is busy doing SCIENCE. (7/8/24)
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We stopped by the kite shop in Newport and picked out a kite. And also this boomerang. (7/8/24)
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We
named our fluttery rainbow octopus kite Roy, because he's a rainbow.
But also, he's here, he's there, he's everywhere... Roy Kite!
(7/8/24)
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Kitty-cat gets tangled in the octopus's stringy tentacles. (7/8/24)
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Comparing
their own hand to the size of a wolf's paw print and looking at a
replica wolf skull at the White Wolf Sanctuary. (7/9/24)
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A bunch of kids interested in marine biology. (7/9/24)
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Moar SCIENCE. (7/9/24)
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S'mores on the beach at sunset. 'Cause it's always a good time. (7/9/24)
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Hot and cold beachly delights. (7/9/24)
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Putting the fire down for the night. (7/9/24)
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Mostly, Lee prefers exploring the sand dunes to playing in the waves. (7/10/24)
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This stretch of ocean got trapped behind a sand bar, so it's been warmed by the sun and isn't so bitingly cold. (7/10/24)
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More s'mores. (7/10/24)
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Lane is not bothered by the cold. (7/10/24)
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Truly a spectacular sunset over the ice cold waves. (7/10/24)
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Lane's
group gives their presentation on Clawdia the Dungeness Crab at the end
of the Hatfield Marine Science Center summer camp. (7/11/24)
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Clawdia's tank is on the left. (7/11/24)
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Piper says 'no' to hugs. (7/13/24)
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Celebrating the release of Paw Prints Beyond the Moon with a giant cookie, despite Cookie Monster's warnings about this subject. (7/15/24)
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We spent an afternoon at the Eugene Science Center. (7/18/24)
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Playing with light and shadows. (7/18/24)
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The fluidic nano-magnets may have been the best display. (7/18/24)
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We finished this challenge -- matching up the right colored blocks -- just in time as the center was closing. (7/18/24)
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