Something new I want to do is find out how many species of birds I see in a year. So, I’m going to do a weekly post of the new birds I’ve snapped a pic of. This week’s post happens to feature only birds I saw around our house. But I like to go birding, …
Not much is happening in our soggy flowerbeds, but there’s a lot of excitement happening in the new incubator.
Today is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day & it’s a snowy one. In anticipation for this month’s bloom day, Thursday I snapped of few pics of what’s happening outside.
A number of years ago I bought myself a used sewing machine. One of the first projects I made were stockings for the 5 of us. I have always wanted to make us stockings. Woo hoo! I finally made them & years later I still love them. The pattern I used was Joann’s Debbie Mumm …
As part of our Westward Movement Unit, we worked on Evan-Moor’s Moving West History Pockets. I was impressed with the variety explored in this book.
I missed the last two Bloom Day’s. Dag nab it. I was really going to try keeping up with it. It’s such a fun idea & a great way to keep track of what’s happening in my yard. Our road trip through me off. Hopefully, I’ll stay focused & not miss another Bloom Day for …
Some years I make costumes for Halloween; some years I don’t. It just depends on what I feel like doing or what the kids want to be. This year proved to be a bit tricky, but came together great. I knew we were going to Disneyland for Mickey’s Halloween Party. But the kids didn’t.
This post contains affiliate links. Back when I was home schooling, as part of our Farmer Boy unit, we made candles. In the book Almanzo talks about taking his lantern out to do chores and walk to his room at night. We discussed how they didn’t have electricity for lighting and instead used candles. We …
Back in early August we collected plants, flowers, berries & leaves to try making natural dyes. It took us a couple days to complete the process, but we ended up with a variety of dyed goodies.
Is it silly that I’ve always wanted to do a covered wagon project? Well, silly or not, I finally had a good excuse to have the boys make their own covered wagons. We were studying the days of the pioneers. We just had to make a covered wagon to go along with that era… And …