The Rankin Zoo

This morning we went over to Wolf Trap National Park (did you know it was a National Park?) and did some sledding. They have a hill there that’s a lot like Mount Reston (only about 4 of you will have any idea what that means) but without the stream at the bottom. I [...]

It snowed last weekend, a lot! I think the official total at Dulles Airport was 32″ – I measured more like 24-25″ in our yard. Then, it snowed again on Wednesday. It’s hard to say how much it snowed because there was already a bunch of snow on the ground and [...]

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It’s snowing right now but this video is from the weekend, after our last snow. We took the kids over to this small hill by our house and did some sledding. In this one, the girls are going down together. There are a few interesting things to note.
First of all, they quickly [...]

Last weekend is snowed a lot. It was crazy and fun. We still have a bunch of snow around but it’s getting crusty and yucky.
My cool underwater camera also works in cold, snowy weather so I got some footage of the storm – during and after. I didn’t put a lot of [...]

Yesterday Coral and I carved our three pumpkins. Coral designed two of them and I designed one. It was fun and I decided to record the whole thing – but instead of an hour of us slaving away over a few pumpkins you get a time-lapse version that’s only… 4.5 minutes long! [...]