Exploring Life In The Grit Of The Earth
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Home Schooling, Knitting on Mar 30th, 2010
Let’s start our morning with some daredevil antics! Don’t see anything wrong with this? Let’s look again: Then off to a sweet farm tour where we enjoyed some fabulous home made jellies and ice cream, and I scored an angora fleece from this guy: Then we spent the rest of our day enjoying the beautiful [...]
Posted in General on Mar 21st, 2010
Deb over at Just Short of Crazy has given me a sweet award! (Don’t you love the name of her blog! I feel that way so often, although, I think my husband might say I’m more like ‘just short of sane’!) Thank you, Deb! Though I write this blog mostly for myself, like a journal [...]
Posted in Mothering on Mar 21st, 2010
I am SOOOOOOOO happy that spring is officially here, and right on cue, the weather has been glorious! We took advantage of the warm air and bright sunshine these last few days and put up our tetherball court! That’s right, you heard me! I could SO kick Napoleon Dynamite’s butt! The ball is just an [...]
Posted in General on Mar 17th, 2010
In preparation for St. Patrick’s Day, Kaia spent some time creating a Leprechaun Trap. The sign says “Gold Mine Here. No Leprechauns!” She hoped he would climb up, peek in, and fall into the box. We had to make it really enticing, so inside the box we put lots of our homemade gold. For homemade [...]
Posted in Home Schooling on Mar 11th, 2010
Kaia and I have been busy planning her summer and second grade curriculum. No, we won’t really be doing much ‘real’ school work during the summer, but she has asked to learn about certain things, so we are planning ‘camps’. Mythology, Weather, and Mapping camps. She will also be attending a couple of camps outside [...]
Posted in Organic Gardening on Mar 11th, 2010
YAY!! I’m so excited!! I can’t wait to have fresh food from the garden. This past weekend, we set up a straw bale cold frame to start our seeds in and seeded kale, lettuce, cabbage, and parsley! We are using a pane from a glass door as the top. The greenhouse in our [...]
Posted in Mothering on Mar 2nd, 2010
In honor of his 106th birthday, we had Green Eggs & Ham, Pink Snow, and Oobleck for dinner!! Yum!! Thank you Dr. Seuss for your amazing, creative stories and creatures!!
Posted in Do It Yourself on Mar 2nd, 2010
Kaia has been waiting, and waiting, for this project to happen. She picked out her fabric last month, but we had trouble getting the fins. They finally arrived today, so I had to get right on it! Behold – Mermaid Kaia! This was a fairly simple project to do. We got the swim fins from [...]
Posted in Home Schooling on Mar 1st, 2010
We found this craft when we were cruising around on the web looking for info in sea monsters of prehistory. (scroll down to Sediment Fossil Surprise). As soon as Kaia read the details, she was dying to do it. So, saturday, we got all our ingredients together and created our layers of history in a [...]