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more high school ideas 12 Aug 2013 | 02:18 am
This is mostly a placeholder to remind myself about a couple of Julie’s posts on the Bravewriter blog: 5 principles for one-thing-ing high school 1-3 4&5 The principles summarized Teens need adven...
How we’ve approached High School so far 11 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
Julie at Bravewriter posted a question from a mom of a highschooler on her Facebook page today and I realized it might be helpful to say more about what we are doing here. Despite the occasional pani...
Rambling homeschooling thoughts 2 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
I should really post some quilting and knitting photos but I’ll leave that for now because today I decided to turn my mind to the coming academic year. And that’s now left me somewhat confused and fru...
Other farm news 23 Jun 2013 | 06:51 pm
We have also recently built a rainwater collection system on the back of the barn. The barrels were purchased from the local Scouts who were having a fundraiser. SInce you need to get a bucket under ...
New pigs, with bonus duck 23 Jun 2013 | 06:41 pm
In other news, we picked up 3 little pigs this week. Freya got a photo of them in the shelter but that's still on her camera so you'll have to live with the pics I took later. These wee pigs are a b...
Pandora’s Box quilt Finished!!! 23 Jun 2013 | 06:29 pm
And I think I'm going to rename it Pandora's Flower Box because of how I chose to quilt it. But here it is: and the back, with clever use of pieced strips to save on backing material A close up of t...
The Leafs didn’t choke 17 May 2013 | 02:25 am
I’ve been writing this in my head for a day or so and thought maybe I’d share it. An attempt at humour. My grandmother was a huge Leafs fan so it is meant lovingly. The Leafs didn’t choke. I know … Co...
Lambing season round-up 28 Apr 2013 | 06:55 pm
Sunday morning the last of our ewes lambed. Mat was actually watching as the 2nd one came out. We started with 3 East Friesian/Lacaune ewes and 4 North Country Cheviots. 3 of those were yearlings, bor...
Knitting news 7 Apr 2013 | 10:01 pm
I’ve finished Freya’s cardigan. The photos are on her camera though so you’ll have to wait. I’m not sure that knitting a whole cardigan in 11 days is a good thing. I’m now without a large knitting pro...
Update on the quilt 7 Apr 2013 | 09:48 pm
After watching the whole quilt part of a Craftsy class on quilting large quilts on a small machine, I went and got some invisible quilting thread and did a bunch of stitch in the ditch to stabilize th...