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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Late night Homeschooling Thoughts
OK. Actually, it is early. 1 a.m. to be precise. I am finding that my current eclectic method has many holes. We keep bumping into (or would that be through) them. Today it was contractions, he couldn’t remember how to do them. Ack! *deep breath* Ok, I’ll calm down. This IS our first year after [...]
Posted in Homeschooling
Plan of Attack
I’ve been working on the re-do of Eilidh’s AoA scroll. Got the design penciled in enough to know I’d be happy with it but not so much that if I botch the callig-ing I’d be bummed to loose all that pencil time. So just about every day/night I’ve been spending a little time practicing my [...]
Idee Fixe
\ee-day-FEEKS\, noun: An idea that dominates the mind; a fixed idea; an obsession. *Giggle* When this first hit my inbox I immediately thought of my son and Pokemon. Even funnier, when I told him what the word meant he said, “You mean like me and Pokemon?” LOL! Sometime in the next few days, I will [...]
Posted in Life
Insular Magiscule
… is not my best hand. ‘Course I really don’t have a best hand, yet. Maybe I’m being too picky but I want it to look just like the writing out of the Book of Kells. Is that asking too much? I’ll try to post a pic later today. I’ve been practicing a little each [...]
Busy Day
Wow! What a day is was yesterday. Very, very busy. At 10:30 we had a homeschooler’s get together at a local church’s gym. Met some HSers in the area I hadn’t met before. The kids all had a great time running about and amok. We were supposed to have lunch there, but after preparing ours [...]
Posted in Life
Calligraphy Guidline Generator
Coolness! Scribblers Guideline Generator: Input your ascender, body, descender and space between in millimeters and it gives you a practice page! Woot. OK. Gave it a try. Bit disappointing. At 2-3-2-7 mm respectively, my printout is a bit wonky. Every 3rd set has a big space the 2-3-2 part. Views just fine, so I could [...]
New Favorite Soup: Butternut Ham Bisque
Butternut and Ham Bisque Ingredients 1 tablespoon Butter unsalted 1 large Onion chopped 1/2 teaspoon Rosemary 2 cloves Garlic minced 5 cup Butternut squash peeled, diced 1 cup Potato peeled, diced 5 cup Chicken broth 1 teaspoon Salt 1/2 cup Milk add extra powder 1 1/2 cup Ham cooked, cubed Instructions 1. Melt the butter [...]
Mall Rat
Used to be one. Loved hanging out there… even worked there. Hung out with Bob there when we first met. He worked there too. ‘Course in Okieville, there wasn’t much else to do. Well, not much that was legal anyway. Now, I hate the mall. As soon as I enter, my head hurts. And I [...]
Posted in Life
Long Range Planning
All this talk about going to Estrella has got me really wanting to go. As Bob said, it may be the closest we get to Caid for a long time. Not that we can go this year. But if we want to go next year, we need to start planning… NOW! So, Viking research has [...]