Juneau Farmer's Market
Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 2:04 AM by Michelle - 3 Comments - Post Comment - Link
The first ever Juneau Farmer's Market is coming up on Saturday, August 30 from 9am to 2pm. I have signed up for a table and will be selling jams and jellies, rhubarb bread, blueberry muffins and strawberry plants - all from local fruits. I will be busy this weekend making the jams and jellies - hope I get it all done! I will bake the bread and muffins on Friday. I also volunteered to give a short talk about raising chickens for eggs. I told them I was just a beginner myself, but would be willing to share what I've learned so far. I will do that from 12:00 to 12:30.
There will be other speakers on topics such as growing garlic, flavoring with flowers, composting, free gardening resources, making cheese, greenhouse construction, and edible native plants. The Dept of Fish and Game will have a tent setup and will present how to fillet salmon and tips on smoking and butchering a deer and how to take care of the meat. Sounds to me like a wonderful day!! I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to listen to all the presentations and still work my table :o)
So if you live in Juneau, make sure to check it out! It will be downtown at the old armory building, now the Juneau Arts & Culteral Center. Oh, yeah, and come buy some homemade local jam!!
Homeschool Memoirs Assignment 1
This Weeks Assignment: This week, we want to hear about YOU. The author behind the words. The Momma behind all the homeschooling kiddos. Just write up something about you, your family, and your home. How long you’ve been homeschooling and why you decided to homeschool. It doesn’t have to be anything lengthy at all, but we’d love to hear it! You might include a family photo too!
I'm Kim married to my sweet heart for nine years this Saturday! We have been blessed with 4 sweet girls age 6, 4, 2, 1 and a baby due mid Nov.
My husband and I are both homesteaders at heart. Although we've lived in a range of places from old homesteads with out hydro and water to apartments. Currently we live in the house we bought 4 years ago, renovating it to sell one day. Our house is 158 years old! Quite old for this area. We both really like our home here and it would be perfect if it just had more acreage!
Before our first child was born I knew I wanted to homeschool. Thankfully dh was in full agreement. We both were raised in the public school system and saw it's many down falls. While we both love learning the schools we went to did a very good job of trying to squelch that. Thankfully while growing up I lived nearby a homeschooling family. When I was in my mid teens I took myself out of the public system and finished my schooling with a combination of correspondence and home (self) schooling.
Our children love learning with history, science and art being their favorite subjects. Our basic curriculum can be seen here. While I believe that learning starts at birth, we've been officially homeschooling for 2 years.
Other interests of mine are gardening, canning/cooking, hiking, reading, crochet, different handcrafts and generally anything that falls into a homestead/homemaking category. 
Charlotte Mason Carnival - Back To School Planning Bash
The next edition of the Charlotte Mason Carnival is up! Pop on over to On Our Journey Westward to see the WONDERFUL selection of entries.
Blog Awards
 
I'd like to say thank you to my dear friends Ellen and Amanda for sharing these with me!
The hardest part is picking only a few others to give these to as there are so many wonderful blogs!
Jessica at Trivium Academy
Candace at His Mercy is New
Higher Up and Further In
Blog, she Wrote
Olympic Study Links
We are working on a Olympic unit and the girls have had so much fun! They love watching some of the events in the morning.
Here are some of the sites we've found helpful.
Homeschool Share Olympic Lapbook ~ This is one of the best sites I've found so far. We are using it as a spring board for our study.
The Official Website of the Beijing 2008
Olympic Coloring pages
Olympics Time line
Traditional Chinese Music
Learn How to Write Chinese Numbers
Another Chinese Number Site
Giant Panda Lap book
China Olympic Unit Study
National Anthems Around The World
Making Paper Lanterns
More Olympic Coloring pages
Olympic Coloring pages 3
CBC Olympics
Jump Start Games?
Has anyone used the Jump Start computer games? I was thinking of getting some for the littles but want to make sure they are worth the money.
Supper Tonight
I'm REALLY tired today, so that calls for an easy supper. Tonight will be:
Chicken balls and cherry sauce, Rice, Stir fried veggies.
Cleaning and Sorting
My big job for the day is cleaning out the cabinet in the kitchen. Its one of the large stand up pantry cabinets, but we use it for cook books and school storage. It's been a catch all for some time! I'm getting close to being done finally.
I'm also almost caught up on the dishes and laundry again. I made some laundry soap this morning as I ran out on the weekend and was just to sick to make more. I've been feeling really yucky lately. Thankfully baby girl is sleeping through the night now so the extra sleep will help me I'm sure. 
Another project for this week is my book shelves. It doesn't take long for the kids to unsort things! LOL I'll be moving some of my books to the shelves in our bedroom to make room for school reference books.
Interesting Weekend
Well our weekend was quite a mix up! LOL!! Friday we did our grocery shopping but dh was to tired to wait while I picked up some school supplies that were on sale. He offered to bring me back to town the next evening. So Sat. morning he leaves for the rabbit market taking dd4 with him. It was raining and storming all day. Anyway late morning I see some flashing lights outside and look out the window. It's a tow truck dropping off our van.  I went out and dh and dd were in the tow truck, they had gotten a flat tire down at the market an hour a way. Now that wouldn't have been a big deal BUT the spare tire also had a leak. LOL! That's one of the things on your list to fix but something always happens when you go to get it done.
Anyway all was safe and sound, despite it being quite expensive! We were lucky and found a garage still open (most close at noon on Sat.) and they could fix them at 4pm. The spares for the trucks don't fit on the van so dh and dd6 went to get that fixed. One of the tires had been purchased there (Canadian Tire) last fall and even though we didn't have our warranty papers on us they didn't charge us for fixing it, just for the other one. Ironically they both had the same problem leaky stems. So after they got home dh put the tire back on the van and we finally got to head out.
Walmart was my first stop. They had the 80 page notebooks on sale also crayons and a few other things we use a lot. Over all I was disappointed in the selection though, it wasn't as good as last year. One of the things I was looking for are file jackets, the file folders with sides. They didn't have any and hardly had any normal ones either. I'll have to make a trip to an office supply store soon. I also tried Zellers who had a slightly better selection but still nothing that was on my list.
So we didn't get a whole lot done this weekend between the rain/storms all day and our "adventures".
Red Current Harvest
Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 5:27 PM by Michelle - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
I have 8 red current bushes that are 3 years old now (or 4, I can't remember). The berries were so big and plentiful this year! Our summer has been so cool and rainy, I'm suprised anything is producing.
It looked like all the berries were ripe, or very close, so I picked them to make jelly. They are fun and quick to pick if you just take the whole string. Since they will be used for jelly, I won't have to pick them off either, just boil as is to get the juice out. I got two gallon size bags full and they weighed 7 1/2 pounds!! I'm very pleased! They are in the freezer waiting for me to make jelly.
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