Who Does She Think She Is?
August 28, 2008
Well, the camera arrived yesterday. I won't bore you with all the specifications and functions, I barely understand most of it myself. I feel slightly embarrassed owning a piece of such beautiful engineering. I mean, this thing is worth more than our car. Yipes! Keep in mind of course our ...
(this week's) top three reasons we homeschool
August 27, 2008
No doubt there's as many reasons to homeschool as there are days in the year. Today, kids in our town started school a full 3 days before labor day weekend (seems wrong to me). Three days, three reasons for homeschooling. 1. We'd rather go to the beach on the nicest ...
Raising Monarchs
August 26, 2008
Every late summer the kids and I raise monarch larvae (caterpillars) into butterflies. Monarch larvae eat only milkweed so if it's a good monarch year they are easy to find and easy to feed. We find them as minute eggs or fingernail sized caterpillars at the farm and house them ...
Roasted Garden Tomato Soup
August 25, 2008
August Juliet Tomatoes Maybe it was the week in the woods or more simply the fact that I came home to 10 lbs of ripe tomatoes on the vine (nothing's more gorgeous my friend), but I was inspired to get a little gourmet tonight. For supper I handcrafted roasted garden ...
More camp photos
August 25, 2008
I should be doing laundry right now but I'm still in vacation mode, very relaxed and taking it easy on a Monday morning - nice. Suppose I should try to get motivated to do... something.
I'm on my way from misery to happiness
August 24, 2008
(anyone remember the proclaimers song "i'm on my wey from misery to happiness todaey, uh huh, uh huh", man I love that song) Somewhere up the Aziscohos mountain trail, or maybe looking out over Mooselookmegunticook or Umbagog Lake (I am not making these names up) I lost the self-pity, intense ...
Les Miserables
August 19, 2008
Wrote this post, journal style, 3 days ago on our first day of vacation. Today we have wi-fi access at our campground, in the Maine woods no less. Don't despair, subsequent days improved... Miserable, am I allowed to feel this way when camping? What about selfish? Miserable and selfish, and ...
