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Mining History & Grandkids

Posted in Africa, British Columbia, Gold, Mining history, tagged , , , , , , on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

An ordinary weekend preceding a Monday holiday.  And yet extraordinary if you think hard about it. (more…)

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Mining & the Wii & XBox 360

Posted in consulting, People, tagged , , on July 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »

As I sit at home looking after four grandkids and simultaneously getting mining work done, I give thanks for the Wii and XBox 360.  They are excellent babysitters.  At least for the three boys.  (more…)

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Entertain Kids at a Park

Posted in People, tagged , , on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In most neighborhoods there is a park.  In most parks there are scores of kids being entertained by their mothers.  In the wealthier parts of town, the kids are running free as their immigrant nannies chat to each other or spend time on their cell phones to Latin America.  Often you will see a grandmother or grandfather, like me, doting on the grandkids as they run the playground.  (more…)

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Entertain Kids at an Aquarium

Posted in Human relations and mining, Mining history, opera, tagged , , , , , , , on April 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »

These are the aquariums that I recommend you take your kids to visit: 

  • In Stanley Park in Vancouver is a large aquarium that specializes in the British Columbia Coast.
  • In Chicago near the lake is a huge aquarium that is always abuzz with kids.
  • Long Beach, California has the newest aquarium with whale skeletons spanning the entire structure.
  • Monterey, just south of San Francisco and a block down from Cannery Row has the best display ever of jelly fish.
  • San Pedro is my favorite.  It is small and parochial. Informal and untidy.  It is somewhere on a forgotten beach on the Palos Verde peninsular south of Los Angeles, if you can find it.  (more…)

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Entertain Kids in Las Vegas

Posted in Human relations and mining, People, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on March 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »

There may be a KOA in Las Vegas. I have never used it. Instead take the kids to one of those hotels on the strip. My grandkids like the Excalibur with its turrets and towers and fake knights in armor. They thrill at going down to the basement where there is a kids’ wonderland of games, 3-D movies, prizes, and action. The boys can shoot at moving targets; the girls angle fishing roads at plastic fish floating by on a revolving stage. Then one of the girls takes up the gun and with sure aim hits to win a prize. The boys hang their heads in shame and demand more coins to try to beat this budding Annie Oakley. (more…)

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Mining History and Cooking to Entertain Grandkids as an Old Mining Consultant

Posted in Africa, Asia, Mining history, tagged , , , , on January 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The easiest way to start kids off in that most entertaining pastime, cooking, is to buy one of those pre-prepared pizzas.  Take the kids to the grocery store and let them help choose the frozen pizza.  Get them home and get them involved in removing the wrapping, choosing a dish, setting it on the dish, and putting the works in the oven.   You will have to turn the oven on yourself, and take the heated dish out of the oven.  But when we do this with my grandkids, they still take delight in eating “what we cooked ourselves.” (more…)

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Thanksgiving Entertaining Grandkids: Tangled and Harry Potter

Posted in opera, tagged , , , , , on November 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Two movies in two days: Harry Potter with the fun grandson;  Tangled with five of them to watch Disney.  Tangled is the better movie, being full of wicked but not irredeemable characters.  Harry Potter is just too dark, to focussed on teenaged angst and romance and the terrible take-over of the magic world by unmitigated fascists and racists.  (more…)

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