A couple of weeks ago, Gibson helped plan the Young Men's activity with Jason and Eddy. The boys brought a bunch of items like take out containers, balloons, tape, drinking straws, and cotton balls. The boys each built an egg holder to protect an egg from breaking when it was dropped from a ladder. Everyone enjoyed the challenging and fun activity. 
This is a photo of Abe's egg after it was dropped.
The boys have moved on to a new project at Craterworks: building a chess set. They haven't decided how to make the pieces yet (wood turning? 3-D printing? laser cutter? cast pewter? Too many choices!), but they are making the chess board out of wood. This week they worked out their design and tested some finishes.
Gibson started club soccer this week after a long pause because of the corona virus. He last played in October of 2019. His first day of practice was on a beautiful spring afternoon.
Each Friday we "Celebrate Success" by finishing another week of school. This week we had bubbles because bubbles are very celebratory.
On Saturday, Brandan and Becky volunteered at a vaccination clinic organized mainly for Spanish speaking farm workers. Our community has plenty of vaccines right now, but people are hesitant to get a vaccine for a variety of reasons. The county health department and its medical partners are working with community groups to reach some of the hard to vaccinate groups. This event was organized by Unete, a center that supports farm workers and immigrants.
Becky doesn't speak Spanish and has no medical skills so she assigned herself the task of wiping chairs to sanitizer them between people. The clinic vaccinated fewer people than they hoped would come, but hopefully those who came will influence their friends and family members to get vaccinated later. We are anxious for the pandemic to end and the current vaccine hesitancy only stretches out the pain.
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