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 […]
Simple Joys
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: Favorite Poems Old and New
I cannot remember where I first heard about Favorite Poems Old and New, but I do recall the excitement when I finally found it somewhere, second-hand and affordable. This sturdy volume of almost 600 pages is a treasure. Last night Miss 12 was wandering around aimlessly, so we grabbed the book and settled down on […]
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 […]