In the meantime, it was Father's Day, so we went to the pool again and then fired up the grill for dinner to good effect.
"Alexa, what's the temperature?"
Alexa obediently gave me the local temperature.
"Alexa, why is the sky blue?"
Alexa proceeded to give a very coherent explanation of atmospheric scattering.
Ok, now it was just time to get silly.
"Alexa, why is a raven like a writing desk?"
And Alexa proceeded to explain...