Yo Ho Yo Ho!
Look who didn't sleep last night and built a pirate ship? Whoo boy!
January 12, 2008
December 07, 2007
taking a break this week
We're having a sick week. Well, I am. Dd went on the holiday walk with our dear dear friends (thank you, you have all been wonderful!) while I recover from surgery. We did have a fun science lesson on the anatomy of the uterus and laproscopic surgery. Whoo!
We are going to work on art for the next week or so, making presents in various media. The kids did finish art projects in clay, so that was good.
June 26, 2007
S's saved butterfly
She came inside in tears today because a butterfly got caught in a spider's web on our porch. I told her there was no guarantee that it would live, but I freed it and got most of the web off of it.
June 06, 2007
Seriously? Jesus and the dinosaurs?
Admittedly the whole of religion seems a bit touched to me, but seriously?
First, there was this story: Bible Museum Does Dinos
And now my own state's annual homeschooling convention is offering this dandy workshop:
Jurassic Park, Noah's Ark and the Genesis Flood Dr. Tom Hoyle will present this colorful slide program involving a Biblical explanation of dinosaurs, the pre-flood world, the ark, and the Genesis flood. The presentation is scriptural, understandable, accurate [sic], politely entertaining, and ....... [sic again, really, homeschooling speaker, is it necessary to abuse the ellipsis when your job is trying to tell people that they too can successfully teach children? Seriously?] is Dr. Hoyle's most popular [sic, do you think I'd italicise that nonsense?] slide message. Dr. Tom Hoyle has a PhD [sic again, I may be ABD but I know how to punctuate Ph.D, they did 'learn me' that much} in Christian Apologetics [aw c'mon, you are making this too easy--no, I won't, you guys can fill in the joke yourself, I like to work a bit harder than that] from California Graduate School of Theology, is a full colonel in the United States Air Force Reserves, and founder of the Bible and Science [blasphemy! Get that S word out of your silliness!] Ministries of over 20 years.
So hear that folks? A waco will be employing his duodecadenal idiocy and mocking true science in the "I'll make you feel better about indoctrinating your child with nonscientific nonsense" workshop for the perpetually ignorant. Skeptics need not apply (but we do support his first amendment right to make a fool of himself in public)
And they wonder why the largest group of homeschoolers this side of the Cascades feels a bit singed by the religious fervor... castigated again. Way to go, descendants of the religiously persecuted.
May 05, 2007
'shrooms
eww... well, ok, I don't have to eat them, but he's proud!
here they are cooked
And here are pics of our dorky dog, who thinks he's king of the trampoline and footstool.
March 07, 2007
He's baaaaack!
But alone again, naturally
Note: raccoons, when threatened, give off a skunky type odor. On schnauzers who are barking madly at them. Who then try to run in and wipe it off on your furniture.
Nature's Miracle skunk-off is miraculous. :-D
February 13, 2007
if you couldn't see coonlovin, here's take two:
thanks to jla for the name... snort... although something about her suggestion nagged at me so I looked it up and oy--sorry for any offense.... so I modified it. Note, J. La, that if you look it up via urban dictionary, it is an anatomically correct term if you are a raccoon, but because it has a negative connotation, I removed it. Sorry guys.
the Love Shack!
(thanks to a knittyhead for the title)
Woke up this AM to some good ole fashioned raccoon lovin... the kids came out and ds said "They're about halfway done."
I said, "How would you know?"
So I suggested he call the zoo and ask, but I'm not sure he wants to do that, lol!
The male looked a bit nervous, but the female just looked at us like "WHAT?"
After, they gave themselves a bath (EW!), and got down, walked down the back fence and went off. Needless to say, the topic for homeschooling today is not the one I planned ;-)
