it's cold outside, lets warm up

the boys have been collecting bullets (here a bit of bullet history) at the town's outdoor shooting range. o how precious are those collected led filled pellets, we have been talking about melting the led out of the steel for a while now, though never got to do it.
with the cold days we have had (and it will stay cold for an other few days) we have been working indoors. it was a fun project which joel started with the boys, elias got his camping stove going and in a little steel tray the boys got the bullets over the heat. and what a joy to observe the led come out of those punctured steel cases, fun to see how the process was working. when it was hot enough all of it was dumped into the bucket with the cold water.
the boys were sifting through the led pieces talking about those very creative shapes and forms. i'm sure the process will go on, there are big plans floating in the boys heads...