Friday, July 9, 2010

Great Puzzle


• There are 5 houses that are each a different colour.
• There is a person of a different nationality in each house.
• The 5 owners drink a certain drink. They each smoke a certain brand of cigarettes and also have a certain pet. No owner has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigarettes nor drinks the same drink.
• The question is. “Who has the fish?”

CLUES
1. The British man lives in the red house.
2. The Swedish man has a dog for a pet.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The
green house is to the left of the white house.
5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6. The person that smokes
Pall Mall has a bird.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The person that lives in the middle house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The person that smokes Blend, lives next to the one that has a cat.
11. The person that has a horse lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill.
12. The one that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to a
blue house.
15. The person that smokes Blend, has a neighbour that drinks water.


A and I spend hours on this puzzle, but we figured out the answer. Let me know if you want to know the answer.

Monday, July 5, 2010

4th of July



Don't worry, they are just lighting a snake. We had our usual wild and crazy 4th of July here on our street. It took me years to appreciate this holiday, but I'm now firmly in the pro-4th of July crazy fireworks camp. M has been talking about 4th of July since New Year's Eve, when a huge wind and rain storm precluded our use of the saved fireworks from last year. This afternoon this sign appeared on our fence:


Does this count as Language Arts if you're just (barely) 9 years old?