My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
We are up to the exciting day in the Bernie Zubrowski book, "Messing About with Drinking Straw Construction," when the kids make different walls out of straws and paper clips, (and carefully placed straight pins, placed by the grown ups) Continue reading Testing the walls
I’d asked B to keep an eye on K while I took a shower. Sometimes this works better than other times. Friday was magic, I peeked into K’s room, and had to snap some pictures, Everyone was enjoying the library Continue reading How Good and Pleasant it is When Brothers Dwell together in Harmony
My across the street neighbor’s yard is full of reds and pinks right now. My gardent patch is a little straggly. Next year I want to use more dahlias. I know I need to prune the rosa rubifolia harder next Continue reading How to borrow this perspective?
I just gave a book talk yesterday, although I did use the globe to explain the problem of longitude for 16th century navigators in Longitude, Sea Clocks the story of Longitude, and threw in Carry on Mr Bowditch for good Continue reading Geography 4b
animal feed is just $.25, cheap entertainment The cow tongue was fast, again. "I am definitely washing my hands when we get home!" K loves the chickens. The sun is setting sooner than it had been. Ricky and Fred were Continue reading Oakdale Farm in October
K: "See Bubbles?" in bath, while pointing to my new bottle of lavender/chamomile body wash B: "The only good use for zuchini is in chocolate cake." Me: We can discuss the health care bill during break time, we have to Continue reading Recent Quotes