This is for MrPages, who tries to battle the laundry monster daily…
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Mr Walker has all sorts of cartoons that you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
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July 2007
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July 16, 2007
July 14, 2007
The cutlery rack in the dishwasher broke. Now a small utensil can fall down, and either prevent the dishwasher sprayer from spinning, or bang around in the bottom of the tub.
Today I fixed it. I used those little locking plastic cable ties. Any hardware store will sell them. MrPages, who calls them zip-ties, buys them in bulk, in all sizes. I’m not sure if he knows how much I raid his stash. These little things are also holding together our rodent and rabbit cages!
So I took a little four inch tie, wrapped it around the broken piece, locked it, clipped it and voila!
No more cutlery banging around, where it is not supposed to be. This little piece of plastic will not come off and it won’t rust. It seems perfectly suited to the job!
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July 12, 2007
We are designing our own grammar word games, based on Mad Libs. Being the cheap thrifty individuals we are, creating them ourselves seems so much more pleasing, and is probably more educational.
Here’s our first one:
The Cat Came Back Ad Libitum
We print out a copy and fold it along the center line. The children fill in the blanks, choosing verbs, nouns, and so on, as directed. Then they open up the page and read the silly story out loud. If you are ecologically minded, or cheap thrifty, like us, you can place the folded sheet in a page protector and have the children write their choices on a scrap piece of paper, thereby saving paper and pennies.
PS: Due to copyright infringement we have called our word games Ad Libitums which is Latin for “as you wish.”
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