the education of henry

So Much Learning!

2025-09-14

I had a busy week. Mom and I did school, Dad and I did school, we had a couple of field trips, and I started my food labs.

Mom did some more puzzles this week.

And we have some pictures of Lily from Uncle Neil.

The first field trip of the week was mini golf with Jonathan and Nick on Wednesday.

We lost our balls in the water hazard.

And we lost Jonathan in the water hazard.

Still looking...

Had to take a spin on the carousel.

A little ice cream.

Checking out some toys...

Yeah, these work.

Hah! it's Michael Scott!

On Friday I had food lab number one with Mom: chocolate chip cookies!

Measuring

Combining

Mixing

Scooping out the dough

Into the oven...

You're not done until you clean up.

They look good!

Time for an expert evaluation.

Dad says I get an A.

Saturday Dad and I took a 12-mile bike ride, then we all went to Seed Savers to have a look around for field trip number two. Seed Savers preserves 24,000 varieties of seeds! We learned from one of our documentaries that there are about 300,000 plants on Earth, and about 30,000 of them are edible for humans. But we only eat about 120 different plants, and really there are only about a dozen that make up most of our diet.

Okra flower.

A kind of Italian spinach.

Monarch on a flower.

Some tall corn.

Walking on the farm.

Another monarch.

Hmmm...don't remember what these are.

...or these

There was a line around the barn for tomato tasting.

The spring at the farm. I thought it would be more like a geyser....

Mom with the ducks and geese.

On Sunday morning Dad and I went for a shorter bike ride, just around the lakes. We also listened to the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia" and finished my paper on The Giver. I also worked on my great generals project in my free time. And then it was time for Mom and I to do food lab number 2: mashed potatoes!

Cutting potatoes.

Preparing garlic

Mixing

Ready to eat! And they were delicious!

This week for reading I was working on my literary analysis paper for The Giver and Dad and I were listening to Sherlock Holmes books, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four.

For viewing this week we had some documentaries: Minimalism was about making better choices about how much stuff we consume; An Inconvenient Truth was about climate change; and Seed: The Untold Story was about how important maintaining a wide variety of seeds is to our survival as a species. All of them were good, but An Inconvenient Truth was my favorite.

We also watched some regular movies: Best in Show, The Giver (to see how it compared to the book - I thought it was just as good or better), and The Last of the Mohicans (1992 version), which I really liked. For TV, we watched a couple episodes of Big Bang Theory and Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown episode about Colombia.

And that was my week. Take care!