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  • I found it! Desert Trails,a website of a homeschooling (unschooling) family residing in the California desert. It is quite a large site of musings, daily happenings, special activities, etc. They have their pet subje…

  • Well, I hoed up the sisters' garden bed. None of the corn had germinated. THen I shoveled the shit out of the bed into an empty garbage can to use later on. Put in the topsoil and compost. (someday I'll get my compost…

  • Well...ok, it wasn't the corn kernel/seeds that were at fault. Still no corn! I learned on the edgy board and from a pamphlet from the garden center that manure burns young roots. There's my problem....I think. So it…

  • The corn wwasn't growing...not a peep in two weeks. I dug it up , and it was plenty moist, but not germinated. The seed packet said that they are guarenteed to grow, and gave reasons if they didn't. My guess is that I…

  • Anybody see la bella luna last night? It was a beautiful sight here. We har our moon party at the park, complete with popcorn and moon cookie and glowsticks for the kids. The kids ran around on the playground and had …

  • It's been awhile! Getting excited for this Thursday's total lunar eclipse! if you're interested in seeing/knowing more about the eclipse, here is a link to Sky and Telescope'shttp://skyandtelescope.com/observing/object…

  • I was just pondering on my family's favorite form of entertainment the past 6 months or so. We go about once a week. It costs us about 7 bucks for the four of us. We can do the afternoon matinee, but usually we do the…

  • Well, I was lameting on the edgy board the other day about how my family is not really interested in gardening. It has been a different story the past two days!Yesterday dd accompanied me to plant the tomatoes. She dug …

  • Well, I took dh's gracious offer to move the manure to the garden from the front yard. He hauled it back in the wheelbarrow with ds, and they put the bags in the bed and opened them and empyted them...horray! SO today …

  • Well, I found out what the stench was. It was the eggs! THe kids and I colored eggs on March 21st for the equinox, and we put them in the wicker basket on top of our bookshelf in the kitchen. Later before Easter, we pu…

  • Haven't been blogging much lately. It seems like our life is off-center, and i am trying to get it back on track. We have been just doing too much. Running from one activity to another. The house is more of a mess th…

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