animals around the house the last two days

A toad and a snapping turtle. Also, I wrote a book.

geology question

These rocks were on my driveway. We got them from Colorusso as chopped stone, Hudson New York. The website says the stone they use is limestone but my geology book does not say limestone can be black. And there is a kind of special black limestone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir_Belge

That is not what this is.

You can see a trilobyte and some shell fossils in the stone. 

So, what kind of stone is this exactly? In Hudson, New York. Hard. Black. Many fossils. 

I think this is diamond quartz, with other stuff.

Flourite, from my collection

Gypsum, seems like

Mica, found many years ago

Amethyst

playing piano in NYC and MA

peepers

My dad has been noting the days when the frogs come out for a few years. Let's see when they come this year.

I Hate Pink, wait a second, what did I say?

first place in the chess tournament

This is our team. We won first place!

slinky experiment

In this video my dad is holding a slinky. When I say go, he drops it. The video is 4 seconds long and has 120 frames. We put ten frames (65 to 75) here as pictures. Ten frames would be about 1/2 second. In the 1/2 second in the pictures, the bottom of the slinky is not moving even as the top is falling. For a half second the bottom was standing still in the air with nothing holding it. Why? The bottom didn't know that my dad had let go of the top.