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    Default When Mom is a Chemist......

    ....and you blow stuff up in the driveway:



    Looks harmless enough:




    Glad we didn't do this in the kitchen!

    Last edited by VertOlive; September 30th, 2016 at 10:21 AM.
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    Default Re: When Mom is a Chemist......

    Blowing stuff up under supervision is fun.

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    Default Re: When Mom is a Chemist......

    This is an awesome Mom.
    "When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
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    Default Re: When Mom is a Chemist......

    DH used to blow stuff up. I oughta show him this thread.
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    Default Re: When Mom is a Chemist......

    Your kid needs this...

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    Beautiful kid. Thanks for sharing
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    Default Re: When Mom is a Chemist......

    Quote Originally Posted by jar View Post
    Blowing stuff up under supervision is fun.
    C'mon, jar! Supervision ruins everything.

    "Hey! Why are you kids back here smoking?"

    "You shoulda been here when we were still on fire."

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    http://www.arcamax.com/garfield/s-18...Q2MTYzNTpWOjUw

    This is a Garfield cartoon from ArcaMax that I received today.
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    Default Re: When Mom is a Chemist......

    Have you taught him to burn steel or to make oxygen and hydrogen yet? Then there is the potato light and pinhole camera and ...

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    Default Re: When Mom is a Chemist......

    Just trying to keep him from throwing the elemental sodium into the dogs' bathwater.

    Building a trebuchet for history project next...
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    Default Re: When Mom is a Chemist......

    And then, one day, they grow up...

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    Default Re: When Mom is a Chemist......

    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    And then, one day, they grow up...


    Whoa. That was so "Blair Witch". The great thing about having adopted him when I was 50 is knowing I won't live long enough to see if we wrecked him or not.
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