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Harvesting, Learning, and Nature Walks

It’s almost time to organize our days sensibly.  With the harvest nearly finished, we soon won’t be ruled by ripening plants, rain, and frosty weather.  That will be so wonderful after the chaos of the last month!   I can’t wait until school is the main activity, rather than something that we fit in around the […]

Today We Ate a Beet

Today we ate a beet.  Tomorrow and the next day we will eat more of it.  There may be some left the day after that, but I promised the children we will not eat beet for Thanksgiving supper. The beet was so heavy I carried it from the garden on my shoulder, and so large […]

Fit Mommy Friday–Oops, I’m Late!

  What a crazy week!  (In fact, it was so crazy that I completely forgot about publishing this post even though I had written it.  Sigh!  Since I committed to not skipping a week, here it is a few days late.)  With a killing frost looming on the weekend, this is the harvest week of […]

This Week at Home: Frost, Salsa, and the National Parks

Well, this week we had frost, made salsa, and ‘visited’ some national parks.  On top of that, we hiked along (and in) the river, discovered a skunk visiting the chickens, started judo, and roasted wieners and marshmallows in the rain.  The children did some formal schoolwork too, of course, and are progressing well, but the […]

Fit Mommy Friday

  This was a week of accomplishments.  I braved a 5 km hike on slightly hilly terrain, as well as a river hike that had exhausted me three years ago before I became extremely ill.  What a blessing!  I was also able to make salsa, with the children’s help of course, for the first time […]