Back to the drawing board (chemistry set)

For a year I flung myself into my work.  Working with dedication to unlock the secrets of chemistry.

There were many successes.

And quite a few failures.

This brings back memories of my times on the inventing bench.  Ah, I was so young then.

And speaking of the inventing bench I also crafted a few handy items for around the house and garden.

Firstly I finally got around to creating a watering system so our growing garden no longer needs to be watered by hand.

And I also put together this nifty little device.  Very handy for gathering any fruit and veg ripe for the harvest. 

The fresh food tastes wonderful cooked in my new kitchen even if the cooking appliances don't really do the ingredients justice.  Maybe if I was a better cook I could work out a way to improve my stove.  Still, it's a huge improvement on only being able to roast  my dinner over an iron pot.

I've tinkered around with the stove as best I could and it does produce a pretty good meal now. 

With all of my work I think I'm as good of a home 'fix it' person as Edwin nowadays.  That's another skill the island has taught me.  Being self reliant here is a must.  If you don't learn to do something there isn't going to be anyone else who shows up to do it for you.

In the end though, no matter how good it tastes, my meals are eaten alone.  Edwin still being on his metal only diet.  He has tried to accustom himself to my food but no matter how he tries the most he can do right now is dream about it.  My candlelight dinners are strictly for one.

The other gadget I've made is this little thing here.  Small but efficient.  One zap with this and all of those troubles and worries pressing on my mind just go away.  Well.  Mostly.  Usually. 

Actually sometimes it feels like pot luck.  Maybe I've got a setting wrong somewhere?

When I'm not tinkering around in the kitchen or making gadgets I'm working on my chemistry homework. 

Excepting the occasional stress break. 

Edwin takes over the running of the house again while I'm preoccupied.  Catching my dinner.

And working on the Time Machine.  I'm not sure if he sneaks off on the occasional trip but he does seem very determined to work on its safety and directional features.  If he keeps this up one day I might even be able to pick a spot in history and have some vague sort of hope of actually making it there.

The Time Machine is a rather tricky piece of work though; even for someone with Edwins skills.  At one point he crossed the wrong wires and gave himself a bit of a shock.

And then the Time Machine caught fire...

We managed to put it out but poor Edwin took it hard.

Have I mentioned before about how suspicious I am of their relationship?  Maybe he is sneaking off with the Time Machine just so they can have some 'alone time'.

There Edwin, see.  She's soon be as good as new.

Baring that personal tragedy life just continued on.

I had the occasional success at the chemistry set.

And some more failures.

 And then one fine day when Edwin was entertaining me with music while I was working (badly I might add, I think he might have copied that grip from me) I drunk down my latest concoction and...

felt rather peculiar.

Edwin seemed to find my new look quite interesting though and that gave me the glimmering of an idea...

Hello Edwin.  Looking good.

Well looking transparent actually but after so long in a metal body he loved being a ghost even if it was only for a few hours. 

That was fun.  Now back to the drawing board.  Although all of this transformative business has made an idea start to itch at the back of my brain.  Maybe being a ghost didn't work out, but maybe... Hmm.