It was a beautiful day outside, not to hot and not to cold. So needless to say we spent most of it outside! While hubby was working on his lawn tractor he called us over. He found an interesting looking caterpillar on the lawn tractor that we’ve seen a few times before. They are a [...]
I do like the WordPress interface, but I really do prefer to blog offline when possible. Living in a rural area our internet can hiccup a lot. I hate being almost finished a post only to lose it when the internet goes out! For many years I used Windows Live Writer for blogging, it’s about [...]
Last week our weather was so nice, we spent most of each day outside. We were taking turns working in the garden, playing and doing our school lessons in the shade of the larger trees. I love days like that! This weekend was a big change though. On Sunday we woke up to strong winds [...]
The costs of homeschooling can add up quickly if your not careful, but they don’t have to! I’ve been homeschooling for 6 years now and I’ve learned so much in that time from other homeschoolers. I’m so grateful that there are so many wonderful homeschool forums and blogs out there happy to help others. One of [...]
We’ve taken a break this past month from our normal history studies to use the Great Empires Activity Study from Home School in the Woods. I’ve been looking at a number of their packages to use in our next school year, so I was so happy to have the opportunity to review this unit study. [...]
I was reading on Countryside Magazines website this morning and I loved the article “Growing Old in the New Normal Will Present Some Special Problems”. There is so much truth in this and many of these things I’ve started to notice myself. My health isn’t the best, and I have trouble keeping up with things like [...]
I’m thinking about moving our homesteading community from my blog to G+. I’m not sure yet but I love how the communities there work and it would reduce my workload a lot!While I’m not sure yet if I will keep just one, or both I do see some benefits to having it on G+. I would [...]
I’ve wanted a tablet for a long time, but the first few years they were out the expense just wasn’t something I could justify. Thankfully they have come down a lot in the last year or so. A few months ago our Walmart had the Hipstreet Aurora Tablet’s on sale for only $78. I did [...]
A few days ago, Google released a new beta option to use Google Plus comments on their Blogger blogs. I’ve been keeping a close eye on this ever since. I love Google+ and their comment system is great. Brandon Holtsclaw has released an unofficial WordPress plugin to help non Blogger uses try this out. I’ve installed [...]
I loved this video on stinging nettle by Jim McDonald! I have a nice nettle patch in my yard that I planted a few years ago. I knew it was a wonderful tonic for iron levels during my pregnancies but Jim explains many more uses that I wasn't aware of. #blog #herbs #stingingnettle Talking Nettles with [...]
