How Was Your Day? :)

[Mocha]

Hey everyone! I just felt like making a non-bunny based post. 

How was your day? What did you do?

I woke up at 7:00 am, went for a ride on my horse Cash, and then we went for a swim in the lake. I came back and I started working with an abused horse (he’s terrified of other horses and I have to get him used to them). Then I fed the bunnies. The acted like they haven’t eaten in a month.

Then, I watched season 8 episode 2 and season 8 episode 3 of Heartland. They were really good.

And then i’ve been answering posts on BackyardChickens and cooking dinner, not very interesting

[MK]

Mocha you are so lucky. they only have three seasons of heartland on Netflix :'( I love that show. Oh, does Mallory come back to the show? My day was OK. I’ve been working on a lab for the last three days. Really interesting but long. I also misread the date for my Biology unit tests and missed the deadline :/ so i emailed my teacher to ask for mercy

[BrunosMama]

Glad you had a good day, Mocha

Mine was pretty uneventful. Cleaned, got some closet organization going, took a nap. Then made dinner, went to the store with my hubby. Now just waiting on a friend to come by.

Uneventful, but good day.

[LBJ10]

MK – What’s your lab on?

I can’t say I did much today. My mom came by and we went to Petsmart together. Then we had lunch. I came home and sat down and I didn’t really get up until dinner time. LOL

[Mocha]

Glad to hear everyones day was okay

MK- If I remember correctly, (lol i’m so addicted I watched seasons 1-7 three times each while waiting for season 8) Mallory leaves and then she comes back a few episodes laterand then she leaves for good. (Jessica Amlee also left the show. She moved to California to pursue with her life I guess). But a new character comes into the picture, i’m not going to spoil anything else!

[MK]

Thanks Mocha! LBJ my lab is on diffusion and osmosis. It has three different parts, I’m on the last one, where I need to design an experiment the test the water capacity of plant cells (using potatoes) But it takes my potato cubes in a salt solution super long to change weight enough to count I’m just going to have to go with it and hope it is enough. I might try again with smaller cubes. Uggh.

[Bam]

MK: Too bad you can’t use cucumber =)

My day has just started. It’s Sunday. I’ve just weitten and submitted an assignment for a MOOC on genetics. I don’t know if I got it right. It’s very interesting though. The stuff they can do with genetic testing these days =)

[MK]

If there was only some way to pass a cucumber off as a potato……
I guess those extra credit assignments will come in handy! I’m pretty mad about the whole thing. I’m a good student, A’s and B’s. This is below my usual work standard. It is AP, so that might account for it.

[LongEaredLions]

What a nice thread.
I didn’t do much today either. Got a bit of cleaning done, and some cooking, but mostly was just lazy. Didn’t go anywhere.
Your day sounds much more interesting than mine, Mocha!

[LBJ10]

MK – The wonderful thing about science is that sometimes things just do not work like they are “supposed” to. I remember sitting in chemistry lab and the professor told me to do X,Y, and Z. We were supposed to be making aspirin. I told him that the crystals weren’t forming. He told me to keep scratching with the glass rod to see if the reaction was just being slow. I kept scratching. I said my hand was getting tired. LOL He said to keep scratching. I scratched for a good 30 minutes and nothing happened! Finally he told everyone to pack up and we would try again during the next lab session. When we came back to the next lab session, he admitted that he had made a mistake. What we had told us to do wasn’t right and after speaking with one of his fellow professors, he learned a “better” way of doing the experiment. He had us do it that way and the aspirin crystals formed within seconds.

I’m curious about your cubes. You say you’re trying to see if there is a weight change in your cubes? Did you use a new potato or a potato previously used in the experiment? Perhaps they were sitting out for too long?

[MK]

I bought a bag of new potatoes specifically for the lab. I have a 0.5M, 1M and 1.5M salt solution, I put a 1cm potato cube in for 2 hours and they only lost about 2 tenths of a gram, which may be enough. It is hard because I am home schooled and doing the labs on my own, I can only contact my teacher through email or phone. My family has helped a lot, but I should be able to design a simple experiment. I am going to try with 0.5 cm cubes, that may work better. Open to suggestions!

[LBJ10]

Smaller might be better. You may also want to wait longer than 2 hours. Perhaps you should try soaking them overnight.

[MK]

I’ll do that LBJ, let you know tomorrow how it works! Thanks for the advice had a good day today, went shopping with my aunt and bought a beautiful coat. I’m in the middle of reviving my wardrobe. A few days ago I yanked everything out of my closet and dresser, and did a major overhaul. I gave away everything I didn’t like, or anything I didn’t wear, and then I looked and I was like, wow, my wardrobe just got cut in half! I didn’t realize how much of it i didn’t wear! So the next few weeks I’m buying new, updated clothes! Its a lot of fun

[bunnytowne]

Gosh LBJ no wonder your hand was tired.  30 minutes of scratching and was wrong in the first place.  

Heartland I have seen that a few times.  Love the horses.  I used to watch shows just to see the horses.  lol.  

Brunos Mama you want to come help me organize my bedroom?  Just moved need help.  

seems as everyone had a good day.  

I finished getting moved.  Wasn’t much to do.  Cleaned hubbys apt. Went to store with friend got rug for Cotton and dishrack. Some anchor nails to hang a heavy mirror and hooks to hang jewelry on. Waiting to get couch next month.  Will organize bedroom hopefully by the weekend. Going to see hubby tomorrow.  Resting today ice pack for back. Eating pills like candy.  Slacking off since done moving getting frugal with pills again.  Good day tho. Happy day actually. Living room is nice. Got some good advice from y’all on another post. 

[LBJ10]

I hope your experiment turns out MK!

Bunnytowne – Yeah, I was pretty annoyed. Sounds like you had a pretty good day. =)

I seriously did not do much today. LOL I slept in really late. I had plans to do some things around the house. I got as far as the dishes and the kitchen floor. Then I was done. =\ I guess it wasn’t a bad day though. I mean, I just didn’t do much. It’s Sunday.

[MK]

Yay my experiment worked! Thanks LBJ.
Ok day today, doing more shopping with my mom. So I now have to get my hw done. Uggh. Oh well.

[LBJ10]

Yay MK! I’m glad my suggestion worked. Sometimes the problem is simply not waiting long enough. I’ve found that to be the case with a bunch of biology-related experiments. Chemistry is nice since most reactions occur pretty quickly. LOL

Let’s see, I sat in my office all day looking at science curriculum. Gosh, talk about coincidences, huh? I was waiting for a phone call too, but this person didn’t call me. Oh well. I guess today was more uneventful than anything. Wait, we did go out to eat when I got home. My husband said he hadn’t been anywhere all day and wanted to go out.

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