Monthly Archives Aug 2010
A Maine Camp Experience
August 28, 2010
For the eight years we've lived in Maine we've heard about "camps". These are, most often, small and rather rustic vacation cottages that dot the shores of Maine's many beautiful ponds and lakes. Where we grew up there were few nice fresh water lakes and no one I knew had ...
Not Back to Homeschool (yet) and Easy Chemistry
August 26, 2010
I always feel a bit out of step with the schooling/homeschooling world this time of year. The buzz, even in homeschooling circles, is back-to-school. And my mind is just not in that space this time of year. Like I've written earlier, this is our first year of summer homeschool. But ...
Monarchs in My Back Yard (MiMBY)
August 24, 2010
Studying caterpillars and butterflies is part of our summer science.
Flowers at the Farm
August 20, 2010
This has been an incredibly difficult week for me. And to add insult to injury I can't talk too much about it here and that's hard. I like writing out my angst. You should see the scrawl in my journals these days. I briefly considered not taking my camera to ...
Who Needs to Knit?
August 18, 2010
The last knitting project I was working on stalled at about this point: This photo is from last Christmas when I decided, after too many mistakes to count, to frog my first pair of socks. The fact that they are "froggy" green is simply a sweet irony. This brings the ...
A Little RSS Mishap ~ Don't Miss my Kitchen Post
August 16, 2010
Have you seen today's post about canning, preserving and a weekly menu? Last week when I scheduled it to publish this morning I made a small error that resulted in Google reader picking up the post a whole three days early. Ie: if you read blogs through Google reader the ...
August's Kitchen and a Weekly Menu
August 16, 2010
This summer has been a fabulous growing season, unlike last year's disappointing months of rain. Simply fabulous. I am loving summer. And I am loving our share at the farm. With a csa you share the risk but you also share the bounty, and what a bounty it is. August ...
Intimacies
August 14, 2010
We celebrated our fourteenth anniversary this week with an over-night getaway to Bethel, Maine's most beautiful mountain village. If memory serves me well (Damien thinks we may have done this once though I don't recall) this is our first ever over-night trip without any children. What with no relatives living ...
3 Lessons Learned for the Beginner Homeschooler
August 13, 2010
Eleven years ago our family started this home education journey with the birth of our oldest child. We never did try a public or private school option. Homeschooling is all we know. Our family's experience is limited to elementary aged education. So I'm certainly no expert on the subject of ...
The Naked Tomato ~ My Battle with Early Blight
August 12, 2010
Although I think the naked tomato would be a great restaurant name unfortunately it describes my tomato plants this year. For the third year in a row my plants have suffered damage from early blight. Last year was a terrible year for tomatoes all across the state and it's not ...
Noodle Salad Recipe ~ Cooking a Meal for 25
August 11, 2010
In early July I prepared a lunch for twenty-five young adults working with Lots To Gardens. This was one of the commitments I was referring to in this post (the clash of too many commitments having brought me to the brink of my sanity.) Our family has invested in this ...
Forget About Balance
August 9, 2010
Mid June till Mid July was an intense month for our family. Not too much of that was reflected in this space but now that I've had a couple weeks to breathe and process I have a few thoughts about that holy grail of motherhood - balance. In short, I ...
Blueberry picking
August 7, 2010
The berries this summer are all mixed up. Actually, not true, everything is just really early. Strawberries in June. Raspberries done by the middle of July. And now this. Blueberries picked out by the first week in August. First week in August? Finding blueberries has proven difficult this summer. Apparently ...
Friday's Flowers ~ A Flower for FIMBY
August 6, 2010
A sweet thing happened to me last week which gave me inspiration for this last Friday's Flowers. I was asked for a sidebar button from Kathie at Two Frog Home. Kathie is familiar with some of my long term blogging goals (which includes building readership) and offered this to me ...
Summer School
August 4, 2010
This is the first year that we have attempted to school through the summer.
This is Me in Grade Nine ~ Being a Keeper of Family Memories
August 2, 2010
The first part of this post's title is a nod to that Bare Naked Ladies song by the same name. My parents have moved a couple times in the last three years. Over the course of those transitions most of the remaining few tokens of my childhood have come into ...
