 Fix leak does not support this hypothesis, as it shows components that do include a 3.5mm headphone port.
Overall, this image leak is a mixed bag. While the 256GB of storage and dual-camera look to match other reports, the dual-SIM and inclusion of a 3.5mm headphone jack are somewhat dubious. Look for the iPhone 7 to launch in September.
We hope the autumn season is treating you well and that the skeletons in your closet have yet to find their trumpets, keeping you awake with their incessant dooting.
Today’s announcement isn’t about skeletons or pumpkins though, it’s about the Lost in Transit heist being delayed. Though first planned for October 19th, we’ve made a promise to ourselves that if we feel the content needs to be delayed for the sake of quality, we’ll delay it.
The level is looking good already, but we have more bugs than we’d like still roaming around the heist than we’d feel comfortable releasing with. The new release date for the Lost in Transit Heist will be the 25th of October.
We hope you’ll have patience as we politely ask those pesky bugs to get lost... In transit.
A pack trail in 1851, Greathouse & Co. muled passengers by 1854. James E. Carr contracted by the California Stage Co., finished the last six miles of road from Trinity River to here, Sept. 14, 1860. The first daily mail and passenger stage, driven by Williamson Lyncoya Smith, crossed over two days later. A stage stop and 100 mule barn, for lodging, meals and relief teams was located here. The winter road was kept open by oxen to break trail and sleighs to carry passengers and express. Known as the Western Branch of the California – Oregon Trail, safer from Indian raids than trails to the east, this old toll road fell to disuse by completion of the railroad in the Sacramento River Canyon in 1887.
Erected 1986 by E Clampus Vitus, Trinitarianus Chapter No. 62 & Humbug Chapter No. 73.
, California, in Trinity County. Marker is on Scott Mountain Road (California Route 3). The marker is located at the Scott Mountain Summit (Trinity/Siskiyou County Line). Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Trinity Center CA 96091, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 17 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. California – Oregon Trail / California – Oregon Road (approx. 1.4 miles away); Church of Saints John & Paul (approx. 5.7 miles away); Hayden Hotel (approx. 5.8 miles away); Farrington Blacksmith Shop (approx. 5.9 miles away); Tacitus Ryland Arbuckle (approx. 8.3 miles away); McBride Ranch (approx. 12.9 miles away); Etna Cemetery Veterans Memorial (approx. 16.1 miles away); This land of ‘Siskiyou’... (approx. 16.1 miles away).
Regarding California – Oregon Stage Road. The Pacific Crest Trail, which zigzags its way from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon and Washington crosses California 3 at this spot.
Kids can be incredibly creative, especially if we give them the opportunity to do so. Have you seen how many ways a child can find to play with a cardboard box?
My boys almost always have craft supplies available. This doesn’t mean they get free reign of any and all craft supplies we have -that stresses me out just thinking about it! I shared on Instagram last week what my husband and I woke up to when my two older boys found their way into my paint supplies!
But, I keep out a certain amount of supplies that they can do whatever they want with, including scissors, glue, construction paper, and crayons and colored pencils. They often come up with really interesting things to create and play with. I shared in this post how we organize our craft supplies.
Giving your kids open-ended toys is a great way to encourage creativity and imagination. Legos are my particular favorite open-ended toy (even as an adult!). My favorite memories growing up are building elaborate Lego cities and spaceships with my brother.
Legos are so versatile and fun. We really enjoy big Lego sets like these to add in with the Legos from the regular sets. You get a bunch of interesting pieces to get creative with.
If you have kids that really love building with Legos, I’d highly recommend a book like The Lego Ideas Book. You can often find books like these in the library. It can inspire a ton of ideas in your kids with what they can do with Lego. Another favorite is the Lego Chain Reactions book. We bought this for one of our nephews, and the projects looked like so much fun!
We have a card table set up in our boys room where our boys keep their Legos. It’s not a perfect solution, and I’m still brainstorming ideas to make an “ideal” Lego play area and storage for them (I have a whole board on Pinterest where I’m collecting ideas and other Lego fun), but it works well for now.
Having a dozen (or more!) open ended toys available doesn’t do much good if it just overwhelms your kiddo. Since our kids were really little, we intentionally limited the number of toys they have available to play with. At first, it was out of necessity. We’ve lived in some tiny spaces! (Remind me to tell you about we lived in a house with 6 adults and 7 kids total! Our bed + baby’s crib took up our whole room!) But even when we moved into a bigger space, we’ve tried to keep the toys from taking over.
We do a fairly simple toy rotation. We keep very few toys out – Legos (regular and Duplos), some figures and a castle, and a few dress-up items. And we always keep books and craft supplies out.
We keep a couple bins in the closet with the extra toys. We’re really picky about what we keep. Every few months, I’ll pull out our bin of toys, and the boys can pick what they want to put away and what they want to take out. I’d say we probably keep about 25% of our toys out at a time.
A long while back, I had read Ruth’s (Living Well Spending Less) post about taking all her girls’ toys away. One week, the boys had been fighting a lot, and I asked my husband what he thought about me taking the toys away for a week. We ended up putting all the toys away except for Legos, books, craft supplies, and cardboard boxes.
While it certainly didn’t cure the fighting (if there are two cardboard boxes in the house, my kids will manage to fight over one of them), it definitely improved things and it was so neat to see how much our boys found to do with what they had. We slowly put toys back in their room over the course of the next few weeks, but we ended up with even less in there than before, and they are super happy.
Part of encouraging creativity in kids is just letting them explore the world around them. Be willing to slow down and let them examine things. Step back and let them figure things out on their own. From finding neat things on walks outside to letting them take apart old electronics, there’s a whole bunch of amazing things that can inspire kids to think and learn.
For us, part of this means letting our boys use technology for creative things. They love to build things in Minecraft. And while back, I introduced Malcolm to a 3-D modeling program called TinkerCad. It’s a very basic 3-D program, and is a great place to start learning 3-D modeling. Malcolm had so much fun exploring how it worked.
For those of you who are creative, it might be easy to sit along side your kids and do crafts. You might love digging up fun projects to do on Pinterest.
But, there are some who get stressed out at the idea of even doing crafts. You envision glitter everywhere, and the big stress of a mess.
Crafts don’t have to be elaborate. Being creative with your kids doesn’t have to mean 20 different supplies and complex crafts. Sometimes just sitting down and doing a watercolor picture with them would brighten their day. Maybe you cut out some random shapes out of construction paper and glue it down to make a picture. Maybe you just scribble with crayon. Maybe you just print out a simple printable craft and do that for 10 minutes. I have a great round-up of simple printable crafts here.
I’m a huge (huge!) fan of Kumon books. I can’t tell you how much Malcolm loved his Kumon Book Of Easy Crafts. And I loved the fact that when he asked to do a craft, all I had to do was pull out the book and hand him a page from it and he was all set!
Being creative doesn’t have to be elaborate. And it doesn’t have to be stressful. Doodling on some silly pages like this can be all it takes to be creative with your kids.
So don’t stress. Enjoy yourself a little. Glue can get scrubbed off. Crayon can be wiped off the walls (trust me…I’ve done it!). Scraps can be swept or vacuumed. Even when things go horribly awry (did you catch that