Finally we got some snow: about an inch, I should say. Amie ran out to play before school. For once it wasn’t difficult to get her into her clothes! Sadly the snow was too hard for snowmen, snow angels, and snowballs, but she had a lot of fun just scraping it off our car and …
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Chicken Wire Compost Bin Accomplished
It’s warm! 50 F in the shade at 9 am and now, at 11:30: 60 F! This weather is unbelievable… But I believed it and immediately went out to set up that compost bin I talked about earlier. The only problem with the plan was that it was impossible to get the 4 stakes that …
Two Nature Experiments
We had two experiments going on here yesterday and part of today. First: dunking cones When we found this cone on our Outdoor Hour walk last week, we identified it as a Norway Spruce cone. It was wet and cold when we brought it in, and we (I) had observed that the scales were slowly …
Drawing Humans: Clothes
Amie has taken the next step in the development of drawing humans: clothes. She had just come home with the cutest class photos and we were discussing that we should cut some out to send to the grandparents and godmothers. She didn’t want to. – I want to keep all of them. (*) – But …
Ocean Diorama for Homemade Christmas
I’m pretty sure that our Tia Tata doesn’t read this blog, so I think we’re fine, but IN CASE YOU’RE TIA TATA, LOOK AWAY IMMEDIATELY! Okay, that said, all the rest of you can get a preview of one of our homemade Christmas presents. It’s a diorama for our friend Tia Tata, who is a …
Peak Oil Hausfrau Give-Away
This hurts, because to tell you might dimish my own chances – no one said I was perfect – but Peak Oil Hausfrau is hosting her first give-away: a year’s subscription to Mother Earth News! Don’t go over there, though. I mean: do go over there, by all means, just don’t comment. Oh that’s not …
Featured in Outdoor Hour!
We were featured on Handbook of Nature Study today! Thanks Barb-Harmony Art Mom!
Thoughts on our Compost Bins
While lying in bed, surrounded with a lot more books now (so I’m feeling better!), what better things to do than dream, despair over how little we’ve done (as a prod), and plan our next moves. One of our priorities is our compost bins. The Starbucks coffee grounds and the neighborhood orphan pumpkins have filled …
The Qualities of Nature
Sorry for my absence here. I’m ill in bed. Not the little sickness, which asks for bed and tea and a stack of books and reading all day – that doesn’t happen anymore, with a child too young to care yet: it feels like too much of an indulgence. No, a more serious illness, with …
A Drawing of My Own
{This was written yesterday but I had already posed two entries so kept it for today} I slept badly last night, or rather not at all (this cold is getting the better of me). Ever since having Amie I can function pretty well on very little sleep, on a certain level. But this morning I …