Weekend Project

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Over the July 4th weekend, one of our projects was to build a garden tool box for a community garden at the office. This was our second attempt at building something from scratch and I think we did a much better job this time around. Using the right tools and taking the time to measure correctly made a big difference. (I know, go figure) So 6 pieces of wood resulted in a fairly decent box.

Oh, and don't let the pictures fool you. Matt actually did most of the work. I just did the easy stuff like cleaning up all the saw dust and painting the box.

Media Wednesday

Fun little project that some of the folks back in 2100 put together promoting InterVarsity's back to school campaign for this fall. It's called the "Comfort Zone"


Untitled from InterVarsity-twentyonehundred on Vimeo.

Fireflies

Now that it is hot out, the fireflies have emerged and there is nothing quite like sitting on a porch trying to guess where one might pop up next. It's one of my favorite things about summer. 

But even after being out in the Midwest for 5 years, they still seem mysterious to me. I don't actually know tons about these little critters, but I discovered this fun firefly website called http://www.firefly.org/ and learned some new things about fireflies. The most fun facts are:

• Fireflies produce "cold light" which I guess means that no heat is emitted when they light up. This means they emit 100% of light. (as far as I know no man made light can do that)
• You should never feed fireflies to reptiles (I guess they can poison them).
• And fireflies are disappearing around the world. Never would have thought that if you look outside our window.

One of these day's I'll get brave enough to try and catch one. But that might be a while. As pretty as they are, they still kind of creep me out.