Hailey was out sick and it was my turn to watch the kiddos so I took everybody to Bonkers. Zane and Wren came along, too.

The boys taught her how to go down the slide

and how to climb back up it.

She also had her first baby prison ink 😁, lucky 13.

After two and a half hours everybody was completely worn out.

I was gifted a large wood lathe by a good friend last week. It needed a bit of work and a few parts to get it going again but it's running great now. It doesn't have a fancy electronic speed controller like some of the new ones but it does have an awesome Reeve's drive to control the speed. The drive is a clever pair of pulleys with conical sides and an adjustable width. That combination lets the motor run at a constant speed but the output can change speed just by turning a dial. I love mechanical solutions to complicated problems. 😁 Anyway, I had a chance to try it out and I made this tiny bowl (shot glass?) from a scrap of maple that I harvested from a storm-toppled tree that fell last Spring about four blocks from our house. The lathe is more fun than I thought it would be.