Weather.

 

After a weekend enjoying the rays of sun, getting dirty in the garden, being barefoot with shorts and no coats, today we had snow. I don't really have anything good to say about that...so I suppose I'll spare you the negativity and just wish for us all to have green grass. No more white, thankyouverymuch. . 

Little House: County Fair

I have the pleasure of teaching the 4 and 5 year olds in our homeschool co-op for this semester. Once a week, I'm teaching them history in a fun way. We're going back in time and doing things they way they used to do them.  I'm using the "My First Little House" book series, which takes stories out of the chapter books and makes it into picture books.

Previous weeks:
Winter Days in the Big Woods
Farmer Boy's Birthday
Winter on the Farm
Sugar Snow
Little House Birthday
Going West

Summer in the Big Woods

And the last in the series: County Fair

The grand finale of the 9 week course was the "County Fair". We checked over a "show rabbit"

 Planted pumpkin seeds, in hopes of growing a prize pumpkin.

Made blue ribbons to pass out to the winners.

 Brought fair entries from home and filled out entry cards before we displayed them.

 Displayed our 'fair entries'.

 And gave prizes to the winners (which all were winners).

 

I have to say I really and truly enjoyed leading the class for these kiddos. 9 weeks of fun and they all know quite a bit about the old fashioned life now.  It was certainly fun for all!

Mother Hen

Now, it may appear that I'm talking about the chicken when I say "Mother Hen", but no.  Audra is the true "Mother Hen", smothering mothering those chicks day in and day out. In case you missed my facebook post, she was trying to count how many chickens will fit in our bunny Hop's cage WITH Hop in the cage. She had 3 before I noticed. Audra will be the happiest kid in the world when the baby chicks are around. Soon enough, little girl!

Coastal Love

 

Squeezing in a bit of coastal love when the days are warm enough for us to really enjoy it, but not so warm that the tourists flock in.  We're so fortunate to live here!
 

 

 

 

Childhood

Daily expeditions in the field, puddles, racing, giant rocks as pirate ships, trains passing and our furry friends.  I can't thin of a better way to spend childhood.

Thankful

This picture of the full moon and our beautiful homestead wasn't taken by me, it was taken by another bystander.  If you stood in this exact location and just turned around at this minute, you'd see the lights, the emergency vehicles and the workers the other side of us tackling a brush fire just up the train tracks from our property.  It was hours of activity. I had full confidence in them and didn't worry about our property (much).  I did worry about firefighter safety though....I'm such a mama. But the long and short of it....I'm thankful we have folks like that who are committed to keeping all of us safe.  Because of them, I get to continue to enjoy my fave spot, home sweet home.

Thrifted.

 

Stuart Little.Three flip top jars, which I recently learned are also called Fido jars, some bright orange fabric (thinking some dog vests for hunting season?), a calculator (because the last one doubled as Audra's 'cell phone' and was washed with her overalls) and horse fabric. $5


Two Raising Readers books (which if you see them, snag them! They have 5 stories in them each that were either written or illustrated by Maine authors), three books of books from the Animal Welfare Society, two Fancy Nancy books and a vintage bowl. $6.