Last Saturday night it froze a wee bit, but the garden was fine and we had warm weather until last night. Last night the frost seemed minor when I checked at 4:30 AM, so I crawled back into bed until 6 and then went out to spray the raspberries, squashes, and pumpkins with water. (Everything […]
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Harvest Wrap Up
I’m too busy to post my normal weekly wrap up, because we’ve been harvesting. We expect frost tonight, so the last three days we’ve picked tomatoes, raspberries, hot peppers, sweet peppers, watermelons, pumpkins, squashes, cauliflower, rhubarb, and beans. We froze a few things, but we really canned a lot: the last cucumber pickles: 3 1/2 […]
Review: Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
Homeschool moms have made a massive investment in happiness at home, not only for themselves but also for their children. As Charlotte Mason pointed out, a significant part of education is the atmosphere that surrounds the children. Everyone knows that, ‘if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.’ So perhaps we need to think about being […]
Storm!
Here’s what happened this afternoon. We had a very strong wind that tossed the trampoline about and broke some small trees. Many of our neighbors lost large ones, though, and two of them just missed houses. It was an enormous thunderstorm with huge sheets of rain, 1/2 inch hail, and branches flying about. Our outdoor furniture did not fare […]