Bruce Penninsula

The Bruce Peninsula Wind Farm is a spectacular place. Majestic windmills turn as the breeze blows. As well as being majestic, these windmills generate electricity too. In addition to wind farms, they also have a nuclear plant.

I was experimenting once with a wind mill kit. I found out that windier spots can make an LED light installed in the windmill glow brighter than a small breeze. There is also a wind farm in PEI which I visited last year.

I will see you next time on my blog.

Eildon Hall, Sibbald Point, Ontario

This old grand house lies in Sibbald Point Provincial Park. It also has neighbours like the log cabin and Castle Dangerous as it is now called. Eildon Hall is beautiful outside but it is really something special inside. The antique furniture, the grand stairway that leads upstairs and the thick log walls of the original section of the house are spectacular to view.

I think this house will last for generations to come.

History of the House

The house started out as a small log cabin and then Susan Sibbald decided to extend it and in its day it looked like a grand castle that leaped from the ground. Now it has been reduced in size and turned into a museum, but its beautiful architecture is still in tact. A picture of Napoleon's brother looks down at you from the grand stairway.

Lyme ticks!

Lyme ticks are dangerous. They make lyme tick disease. They numb your skin so when they bite you, you don't feel it. If there's a lyme tick in our bed, you are going to be in trouble!

They are found mostly in the north-eastern United States, but also Ontario, Nova Scotia, PEI, Manitoba and British Columbia.

Lyme ticks can cause terrible disease and even death! My grandpa's friend Kat is going to die soon because she got bitten by a lyme tick when she was camping two years ago.

If you think you have been bitten, it is important to get medicine from the doctor really soon.

Biltmore Estate

This is Nicholas reporting from Florida.

I visited this castle a few days ago but I want to talk about it right now.

Biltmore Estate is a very nice estate. It has a farm and it has a castle that is very beautiful and has 250 rooms.

My favourite part of the castle was the big hall which they used as the dining room.

My favourite part of the visit was holding the chicks at the farm.

I had fun at the estate. See you next time.

Dangerous Fire Ants!

This is Nicholas reporting from South Carolina. I've discovered some new ants - they are called "fire ants". They can sting you and they can even be deadly!

How to prevent getting bitten by a fire ant:

1. Don't go near their nests. (Fire ant nests can be under bricks, logs or just a big hill that looks like a mound of sand up to 40 cm high.)
2. If you see a fire ant, don't touch it! They will bite you.
3. Don't let you pets near them.

Candy Math

Hello - this is Nicholas again. I've got a new way for math. It is called "Candy Math".

Candy Math is when you take your favourite candy and you do math.

How it works:

Step 1: Take your favourite candy.

Step 2: Draw number sheets. Take 10 sheets of paper and draw the number 1, as big as you can on the first sheet. Then draw the number 2 on the next sheet and so on.

Step 3: Use the candies for math by putting the right number of candies on each sheet. You can also add two sheets together and count the total number of candies that you have so that you can practice adding.

The Water Jar Experiment

This is the first of many posts by Nicholas. If you're a Mum or Dad who is homeschooling your children and using lots of worksheets, you will change your mind once you listen to my ideas!

SO - let's get on to our first experiment...

1st step - take a jar

2nd step - fill the jar with cold water (reminder: always make the water COLD - as cold as you can get it)

3rd step - put the jar, filled with water, in a sunny window - what do you think will happen to the water?

4th step - wait for 2 hours

5th step - pour the water on your wrist - is it warm or cold?

ANSWER:

The water will have warmed up. Why? Because the sun's radiation heats it up. You can google that to find out more about how that works.