Sunday, October 5, 2008 New pets!!
It's been a very big pet month around here!! Jeff has a betta, Mellie has 2 hermit crabs, Amanda got herself a hamster, Mark has a new fish tank that he wants to put live plants in and have a sort of pond tank, and I have a parakeet named Ike. It's been very exciting around here this last month.
Oh yeah, we also have chicks in the brooder box in the garage!!
The kids earned help buying their pets by saving a portion of the cost with their allowances. The girls agreed on an amount with Mark and then we picked up the remainder. It's been a very good lesson on saving for what you want! Right now we've got a deal with Jeff that if he saves enough for the cockatiel that he wants we'll pay for the cage.
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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Sunday, October 5, 2008 Canning and sewing...Sewing and canning
This weekend has been fun...the first 3 quarts of applesauce are done and there are 14 quarts of chicken stock on the kitchen counter waiting for me to find room in the pantry for it. I probably still have 4 or 5 quarts of stock to do up today and I've still got 15 pounds of apples to turn into sauce. After that's done I'll go and get more apples. I'd love to have the pantry full of sauce, apple butter and pie filling!!
We've also been busy with the sewing machine! Last month I finished 2 dresses for myself and have another about 1/2 done. Mellie and Amanda have new nighties and I have fabric for another for each. I also picked up enough fabric for a couple for myself. I've also gotten a new jumper pattern for each of us for this fall and winter. I need to grab some lightweight denim for those.
Right now I've got to go and see the "birds of prey" flying over our field that Mellie came to tell me about.
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 The things we've been up to...
Whew...as usual things have seemed non-stop around our place. Our visiting horse went home at about dinner time the day he was here. He's living next door where we didn't think they had any horses living anymore. She came home from work and saw Twister out in our field and called his owner to come and get him. He's been caught a couple more times sneaking out of the fence.
We've enjoyed our start with Mystery of History. Mellie has a few hens and chicks growing in a little greenhouse made from a canning jar. Amanda wants to root a spider plant baby and then close up her greenhouse. We're really enjoying what we've done so far as far as history goes. Of course I hope to get so that it's on a little more regular basis. I'm trying to get it in 3 days a week with our science on at least 2 other days. More often than not Saturday is a school day for us as well. Especially when Daddy is working.
Earlier this week while watching the hummingbirds by our feeders outside the sunporch I decided that we should dive into the Handbook of Nature Study. What an awesome book. There's an entry for just about anything you can imagine. Sooo, this week, the kids have drawn hummingbirds and colored them with colored pencils. I found Mellie a mask to color which led her to the fairy craft book that she found at the library and made hummingbird wings and a tail from freezer paper, wire hangers, and duct tape. Does that girl have a great imagination or what?!
I also found directions for making an origami hummingbird...needless to say, we gave up on the first set of directions and searched for an easier one. After a late night run for wrapping paper to try (the tracing paper and doodle paper just weren't quite right) Jeff and I (Amanda got sent off to bed at about midnight) finally figured out where we had made a wrong turn so to speak at about 3 this morning. Determined to finish the silly thing before calling it a day, I took another 1/2 an hour and finished it up so that it could be sitting on Mellie's glasses case waiting for her this morning. (She's the only one who got a fairly early start to the day seeing as she headed to bed at a reasonable time...)
So, here's a look at our hummingbirds...(I was able to help the girls make theirs just a bit ago this morning.)
Mellie also had to make a flower for hers.
Yesterday, we transplanted some basil into a pot in the sunporch and we planted some tomato seeds to see if we can get them to grow out here too. I was able to get a creeping fig when Mark and I ran to Lowe's for patio blocks yesterday. He finished the longer privacy fence around it yesterday too. It's great!!! Now to see in the end of the sunporch on the shared driveway end you have to head into the woods!!! It's great not feeling like we're a sideshow at the circus now!! It's also allowed me to have the blinds open all the time and all the plants I've started to put in here are loving it!!! Eventually we'll have that mini-greenhouse I've hoped for out here.
Well, this is what our week has been like. Oh yeah, we also had our neighbors over for bbq pork Thursday. The kids ended up playing UNO and I think Blayche is planning on coming over on Monday when she's off school for Labor Day for a Monopoly-thon.
I've got to go braid hair so someone can get started with her other bookwork. Have a great weekend!!
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 "Momma, there's a .....
HORSE in the backyard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
This is who showed up at our house this morning. We have no idea where he came from. No one on our road recognizes or owns him. Sooo, for now he's inside the fence until we can find out where he belongs.
Jeff asked me "building an ark" Momma? He's funny isn't he?!?
Oh well, as you can see, things are just an ordinary Tuesday morning here.
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 WE CAUGHT HIM!!!!!
Oh my goodness, I could hardly believe it when I went out to the car to put something away in it and I saw the peacock again! This time he was right up against the fence in the back yard. I don't know how he snuck by the dogs next door but he did! Jeff came out with a slice of bread and the girls were at the back door. I managed to put the dog kennel (I should call it just a kennel I guess because the dogs don't use it anymore) right along the fence without spooking him.
He walked right into the kennel!!
Mark got home pretty much right after this. He and I took Jeff with us in the truck and went to the feed store to buy him a bigger house. We found a 10 x 10 chain link kennel for him. Here's the gang putting it together...
And, here's Joseph in his new digs! It's so very cool to look out the sunporch window and be able to watch him. When he thinks no one is looking he seems very relaxed.
Well, this is what we've been up to this weekend! I hope you have had as pleasing a weekend!
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann |
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