Today, for Liesl’s school science project, she is making home made butter! This actually came up in her curriculum some time ago but our local corner store has nothing even remotely like cream so we have been unable to start the project at all. Liesl reminds us every day or two that we need to go to a store that has it because she is anxious to make butter at home. Yesterday, when we made the run out to the grocery store in the next town, we were able to get the cream that we needed so today is the day. Thank goodness for those days when the kid is excited about doing school. What a blessing that is.
This was quite a project and really wore out Liesl (and Dominica.) The did a full litre of cream which required splitting it into multiple bottles to shake and boy does it take a lot of shaking to get it to work. This took up much of the morning. But it worked and at the end of it all we had rather a good chunk of butter to put into the fridge and it tasted great. It was very good butter. I’m not saying that this is a worthy process and that we should be making our own butter on a regular basis, but it was effective and as a family that goes through butter with reckless abandon it will not be wasted on us!
I did an ownCloud 9 installation project today. It just released this morning so it was a good day to work on getting it installed and writing up my experience with it.
It turned out to be a busy day of arguing about technical issues with ownCloud to a point where their engineer had to be pulled off of the forums and a call with their management scheduled for tomorrow to talk about the things that were said, the claims made, etc. A rough day for them that should have been an exciting release day.
Tonight, once things settled down, I got some time to game with the girls. We played some more of Final Fantasy III or, as the girls call it, “Luneth”. We played that for a little while but then switched over to a hidden object game Fairytale Mysteries 2: The Beanstalk which both girls did a great job playing. They have really developed the skills for the hidden object games.