Well, after a few hours of work, I was blessed with 13 and 1/2 quarts of fresh homemade stewed tomato sauce!  We didn’t get all of the tomatoes done…. I’ll go back in a few days and juice up the rest (they weren’t quite ripe enough anyway).  Making juice is very fast compared to the […]

‘Round here we’ve been pretty busy lately. Trying to stay on track with our lessons… and doing pretty good so far. Sometime this next week we will be offically 25% done with 3rd grade math. DS was thrilled thinking about the possibility of starting something 4th grade ahead of schedule. We […]

Ok here we go:
1. What was your motivation for homeschooling? Was it based on religious reasons? Was is it based on curriculum - did you want more freedom in choosing what your children were being taught? Was it based on socializing - wanting to have more control in the people with whom your children came […]

Help me to decide which waterfall picture I should enter into the local show next month.  I can only enter one picture.  Post a comment about which one I should show please!
  Photo number one
Photo number two
Thanks!

Here are some new pics of butterflies.  I played with one, see if you can spot it.

I just love butterflies, don’t you?
These were taken in Arkansas about 2 weeks ago.  That hummingbird moth was really hard to get.

–Bold those you have tried.
–Strike through those you wouldn’t eat on a bet.
–Italicize any item you’ll never eat again.
–*Asterisk any items you’d be interested in trying but have not yet.
–!!!! anything you eat regularly (more than once a month-ish).
?Questionisk any items you’ve never heard of (there will be a lot of these!)
1. Venison
2. *Nettle […]

  Lesson number 1:  What not to do with an egg.  Never ever leave rotten eggs lying around.  Seems like a no brainer.  Did you ever play that little childhood game with your kid buddies, “what’s grosser than gross?”  Well, I’ve got one.  What’s grosser than a rotten egg?  How about a dead embryo egg, […]

  Having presented myself with 1 bushel of peaches, and being not so fond (or fast) at hand peeling, I decided to revisit the art of blanch-peeling them.  My previous experience with that method proved…. unfruitful at best.  The peels wouldn’t budge, and they had to be carved off with a paring knife.  After some […]

did it work?

Ok it sorta did work.  I finally got a picture to load up onto this website.  Ok, so the pic is small (so small, you can’t tell it’s the one I edited in photoshop).  So I had to go back and change the file type for the saved pic.  I think I can upload now, since we […]

I have CS3 that I’m trialing for 30 days free.  It’s not a very easy program to grasp in just 30 days.  I trialed Lightroom for 30 days as well, and it was sooo much easier to learn.  So far I’ve only produced one photo on CS3 that was worth saving.  Unfortunetly I’m not sure I […]