This morning, M and I replaced the tube in his motorcycle’s rear wheel.  The tubes we found at Walmart are for bicycles, so they are designed for a tire with a slightly smaller diameter.  To reduce the inner diameter of his motorcycle tire so it matched, we cut the stem off his old tube and left it inside the tire to be used as filler.  The new tube held, and M had a great time zooming around on the lake bed.

During homeschool, I interrupted to show how a brushed motor works:

Trish and the kids made chops as part of their Asia study in “Geography through Art” course:

My parents had saved my childhod BB gun, and we brought it out to the RV from their house last night.  We will be leaving it here when we leave Las Vegas, but M wanted to learn how to shoot it.  After a brief test, and gave it to him, and he tried all sorts of different firing positions:

Conditions looked favorable to fly, so I got out my PPG motor:

As I got ready to fly, the winds picked up quite a bit, so I decided to just kite the wing:

Not a bad sunset:

Tonight I helped B mount a metal plate to the underside of her bunk so that her magnetic chandelier, designed to be a school locker accessory, can hang over her desk.  Here I am waving the measuring tape about:

Another beautiful high-60s day in the Las Vegas area!