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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Fall is reallly here
We made the first leaf pile of the season and the kids jumped right in. Today was a lot of fun. We attended the MU South Farm Showcase. The South Farm is a 1400 acre facility that does more than I could explain here! We petted horses, pigs, sheep, calves, baby chickens; saw a dog [...]
Posted in Life
Knitting FO: Bunny
Sorry for the horrid photo. I finished this yesterday night and didn’t get a chance all day to get a shot outside with it. The instructions are found here at Heart Strings Fiber Arts. The yarn is Pitter Patter by Baby Bee in Angel white (Hobby Lobby brand I believe). Knitted on US #3 DPNs. [...]
Posted in Fiber Arts, Finished Objects, Knitting
Sam is the best because…
Sorta forgot to post this earlier this week. I’d made these beeswax tablets a week or so ago to use in our Latin lesson and finally we got around to using them. I used the directions found here. It reads “Samus sum optimus sum quod curro” which (I believe) means “Sam is the best because [...]
Posted in Homeschooling
My Crazy Week
It has just been one of those weeks where I don’t feel like I’ve had a chance to come up for air… Monday morning my mom went into the hospital for a look at her heart and ended up with 3 stents in there after angioplasty was performed. She’s recovering well but it is disturbing [...]
Posted in Life
Great Day
Wow! The weather has been sooo nice. Cold but not so much that we can’t leave the windows open all night. Makes me want to knit socks. LOL! I’m STILL working on those darned blue ones. *sigh* Though I’ve taken a break and started on the second Hooray-for-Me glove. I did the first one… oh… [...]
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Where was I?
Sheesh! After the Tomato Fest things kinda got nutz. LOL! Guess that’s what I get for trying to plan too much into one day. That evening, after the Tomato Fest, the kids and I headed out to Mizzou’s BioBlitz. We didn’t get to catalog anything but rambling around with budding scientists. It was really cool. [...]
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Tomato Festival
Yesterday we went to the Tomato Festival in Columbia. I never really realized just how many varieties there are. Didn’t see any Zebra green or Cherokee however. Those are the two we have growing on the deck. There were many different salsas to try and plenty of chips to chomp on. I think that was [...]
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School Year Resolutions
Pass the Torch has challenged other homeschooling bloggers to blog about their school year resolutions. What do I want us to accomplish this year. *sigh* I have trouble with “big pictures” so I always balk at this kind of planning. Duhhhhhhh! I have an idea of some specifics (which I’ll list below) but it certainly [...]
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Library Haul
I knew better than to go to the library on the first tuesday of the month when they have their FOTL (friends of the library) sale. Especially when the focus of this sale is REFERENCE BOOKS! Needless to say, I did buy a few. BUT for $23 I came away with quite a haul: Wheelock’s [...]
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Japanese Festival
The Japanese Festival in STL yesterday was so much fun. Sam said the best part was speaking Japanese and being understood! We received some pleasantly surprised looks from our first attempts. Very encouraging. Wouldn’t it be cool if next year we went and spoke nothing but Japanese while there. Sam thought so. The beginning of [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Japanese, Life