In Our Life This Week
Do you get excited about...CUCUMBERS? We do! But let me explain. LOL For 4-5 years now we have been trying to grow cucumbers in our raised garden bed. We've tried different varieties and different composts and fertilizers, but with the same result: baseball-sized cucumbers! ROUND! Until this year! Behold, our very first OBLONG cucumber! And it was yummy! We're hoping that the GAZILLIONS of cucumber flowers will yield bowls more of veggies!
Do you get excited about...CUCUMBERS? We do! But let me explain. LOL For 4-5 years now we have been trying to grow cucumbers in our raised garden bed. We've tried different varieties and different composts and fertilizers, but with the same result: baseball-sized cucumbers! ROUND! Until this year! Behold, our very first OBLONG cucumber! And it was yummy! We're hoping that the GAZILLIONS of cucumber flowers will yield bowls more of veggies!
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| Our VERY First Cucumber |
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| The Girls Rototilling, Weeding AND Fertilizing |
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| Isn't This Cool? An ONION Flower! |
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| A Pumpkin Flower |
In Our Homeschool
Writing! Reading! White Pine and Sugar Maple started up our writing review again this week. And Balsam Fir started a reading program on-line. Last week was just too crazy-busy for them to do anything school-ish!
Sugar Maple asked for me to print out some blank sheet music for her, and she wrote her OWN clarinet music! (I'm SO glad she doesn't have MY music abilities! Ha! Ha!)
The kids had a wonderful opportunity to go KAYAKING on a small pond. Our friends "down the road" (1 mile?) graciously offered us the use of their kayaks and we took them up on it. The Saplings LOVE it!
And I continued to prepare for our upcoming year. The printer has been spitting out Ancient History Timelines and cards, Work Box cards, and world maps galore! (There go the new ink cartridges! What can you do? LOL) I'm super excited about adding Tending to Our Lord's Garden's Story of the World timeline to our studies! (Favorite resource this week!) I've got the PERFECT spot to pin it!
Oh, and have you seen our Not-Back-to-School edition? It's all about our curriculum for this year and our methods and even our schoolroom! Click over here!
Sugar Maple asked for me to print out some blank sheet music for her, and she wrote her OWN clarinet music! (I'm SO glad she doesn't have MY music abilities! Ha! Ha!)
The kids had a wonderful opportunity to go KAYAKING on a small pond. Our friends "down the road" (1 mile?) graciously offered us the use of their kayaks and we took them up on it. The Saplings LOVE it!
And I continued to prepare for our upcoming year. The printer has been spitting out Ancient History Timelines and cards, Work Box cards, and world maps galore! (There go the new ink cartridges! What can you do? LOL) I'm super excited about adding Tending to Our Lord's Garden's Story of the World timeline to our studies! (Favorite resource this week!) I've got the PERFECT spot to pin it!
Oh, and have you seen our Not-Back-to-School edition? It's all about our curriculum for this year and our methods and even our schoolroom! Click over here!
We're Reading...
...a psychological thriller entitled The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage (me), too many books to include for White Pine, a teenage mystery entitled Trixie Belden: The Gatehouse Mystery by Julie Campbell (Sugar Maple), Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Balsam Fir), and The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (read aloud).
...a psychological thriller entitled The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage (me), too many books to include for White Pine, a teenage mystery entitled Trixie Belden: The Gatehouse Mystery by Julie Campbell (Sugar Maple), Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Balsam Fir), and The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (read aloud).
People and Places
♥ We saw fireworks and had food and fun at C___ Days ♥ Balsam Fir and Blue Spruce went to Cub Scout Fun Pack Weekend ♥ Indoor tent camping and KAYAKING at a friend's house ♥ We had lunch at the Rec Center, played gym games, and swam in the lake with friends ♥ Sugar Maple had her last 3 days of Band Camp and her final summer concert ♥ Balsam Fir and Blue Spruce attended a Portland Sea Dogs baseball ♥
Ponderings
32 more days of summer vacation left! The crisp days of Maine fall will get here before we know it! And you know, I'm starting to get excited about fall arriving!
32 more days of summer vacation left! The crisp days of Maine fall will get here before we know it! And you know, I'm starting to get excited about fall arriving!
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