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Gardening With Milk Jugs

Submitted by Grampa MacGyver

Over the winter I had been rescuing all of the 4-liter milk jugs from the recycling bin. Recycling is a great thing to do with milk jugs of course, but I just couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to have plenty of useful plastic containers to help me with my gardening this spring, and all for free! Let me pass some on my ideas on to you and see you find them useful too.
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Homemade Mosquito trap

Submitted by King Koin

Ah spring!

I am so glad that the end of winter is at hand and soon the grass and trees will be green. I look forward to the yard work and the planting of flowers. I can't wait to see our roses come out of their winter bed and start to grow and bloom again.

I LOVE SPRING!!!!
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Dead Lawnmower To Planting Cart

Submitted by Grampa MacGyver

Last summer my old lawn mower gave up the ghost. The engine was way beyond fixing and the cost of a new engine was just about the cost of a whole new mower so I bought a new mower but I still had the old one. See the deck, wheels and handle were still in good shape, I hated the thought of just getting rid of it but to keep it I had to find a good use for it.
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Living Shamrocks For St. Patrick's Day

Submitted by BooBear

My Sprouts group did a really neat craft last week. My leader likes us learn how to grow things. This time she showed us how to grow seeds on sponges. We built living shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day!
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Airdrop Irrigation - Water From Thin Air

Submitted by TekTrekkie

My sister found something interesting last week called the James Dyson Award. It is a student design award open to University level students in the fields of design and engineering who design “something that solves a problem.” My sister was really interested in what this year’s winner invented. I was also really excited to find out about this award and I would really like try to win one day with one of my great invention ideas.
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Ice Lights

Submitted by BooBear

It’s been really cold at night. Grampa said he wanted to work on something special. So he told me to bring over any empty ice cream buckets we had at home. We had 3. Grampa had 2 buckets.
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Animal Pictures Made From Leaves

Submitted by BooBear

Last week teacher told us to go outside after school and pick up as many different shapes and sizes of leaves that we could find.
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The Colours of Autumn

Submitted by Princess of Whales

My Dad mentioned the other day that the leaves don’t seem to be changing colour as fast this year as they normally do. It’s funny that so often someone talks about something and a while later you see something about that very thing on the Discovery Channel or something else. Well, on the news they were talking about how our leaves are late in changing because of our unusually warm weather. I learned all about why leaves change in grade school, but it was nice to have a refresher on the process.
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