After The Rain
If I had not gone out to pick cherry tomatoes the bees would not have caught my eye. If not for the bees I would not have seen the ripe figs. Without the figs, well, life would not be as sweet.
To Weed or Not To Weed
….is no longer the question. Seems the chance of rain went from 20% chance of rain to 100%. Exactly what we needed after two days of almost constant rain. Good for the fall garden. Not good for staining future trellises. Good for pulling weeds. Not good for inspecting bee hives.
Rainy Start To the Year
One of the benefits to schooling at home is being able to take off during non-traditional times. One of the not-so-good benefits to schooling at home (for the kids) is to have school during non-traditional times – this week being one of those times. Yes, we have been doing school work the week after Christmas, […]
Keep It Or Sell It, That Is The Question
The question to what? The question I ask myself whenever I come across something unique, pretty, above $40 new, new-to-me, new in package, or which we already own while curb shopping. Here are a few examples. What would you do in these situations – Keep or Sell? Vegetable Glycerin This new bottle of liquid vegetable […]
Astronomy In Homeschool – constellations
This is the long promised continuation of how we covered constellations in our co-op. Pictures had been taken, links found and saved, all awaiting compilation into a series for others’ benefit. Our group is made of of those following a Charlotte Mason style of schooling, unschoolers, and a more traditional “we are taking a break […]
Waste Not: Saving Radish Seeds
Harvesting seeds from your plants to then grow new plants can be rewarding. It can also save money. It can also come about as a way to utilize the results of an earlier indecision. In my case, not harvesting radishes before they began to bolt. I decided to let them continue to flower and (hopefully) […]
Modern Day Treasure Hunt, finding forgotten money
This post contains affiliate links. It all started with looking online for a resource we have used in the past for a composer study. Then I realized I had not loaded my most recent gift cards from Swagbucks onto my Amazon account. While doing so the list of “unused” gift cards on my Swagbucks’ account […]
Friend or Foe?
Picking our day’s cherry tomatoes led me to seeing this little guy. Little right now he really is, he was smaller than the vine was wide, but I am pretty sure he would not have stayed that small. Any one know what he is or might become?
It’s How Old? a.k.a. When Saving Turns To Clutter
At what point does saving become clutter, hoarding, wasteful? I am thinking this batting I pulled out to finish a project the kids did at the beginning of the year (yikes, that long ago?!) would qualify as having past that point. Would it make a difference to know it has also been moved to two […]
How I Made $100+/hr and Saved The Earth
No capes or flying were involved in the making of this post. Superheroes move over, there is a new girl in town. All it took was less than an hour of my time and I helped save the planet. Impressed? What if I told you I made $100+ in that same hour? Impressed yet? My […]