Here are a few pictures from our Saturday and Sunday. This is Kevin learning to solder... unfortunately this is when he was just doing the drying! He says I should have taken pictures later in the process when he was actually using the soldering iron... and I agree!

Garry also helped Kaleb make a folded paper rocket. It's really quite ingenious with paper bellows to launch it and a small rocket that flies! We found the pattern on the internet and Kaleb's spent many hours already trying to make more of them and seeing how high they fly. Once we started on rockets we also had to try the matchstick rocket idea (which didn't work with our wooden matches) and the teabag proposition (which didn't work due to the design of local teabags). At any rate, we've had a lot of fun in the process!

Last evening we were nearly ready for bed when I went out to the back porch and saw a rather large gecko peeking his head out. We've been after this critter for quite some time because he makes a mess of plastic and paper, enjoys our dog food, and makes a lot of noise! The BB gun came in handy and we think he's taken care of... if he only dies somewhere that we can clean him up easily and don't have to smell him! (No worries, though, we're still raising an army of geckos inside the house since they supposedly eat mosquitoes!)

Speaking of critters, I walked through the dining room and turned around to see a rat in the middle of the floor where I'd just walked. We've been putting out poison for them for quite a while, but as Belle said last week, "Somebody's eating, but nobody's dying!"I guess it finally worked... or maybe I scared him to death with my scream!

So such is the tale of our weekend and our critters.