Today's ramblings

It is 11:30 in the morning and I am taking a small break. I am still trying to gather e-mail addresses while taking a break.

I’m rearranging the garden in my head again. At least I am doing it now before it is set up rather than waiting until it is all laid out.  

I’ve been washing out canning jars. When we got the pigs, we were also given a dozen boxes full of jars. Most of them with food in them. All of the food 20 or more years old. So, I’ve been opening the jars, dumping the food into a large bucket, tossing the lids and rings, and washing the jars. The food has been taken out to the pigs. (The food that is really bad gets thrown away.)  

Charlie is doing is math. Bethany is doing Starfall. (She keeps calling it Star Trek.) Hannah is pestering Bethany. Bethany is having a hard time controlling the mouse. She’ll learn, though.  

They both have piano lessons today. For the next four weeks, they will be having two lessons a week to make up for what has been missed.

Charlie just got set up with his copy work. I am having him copy from Proverbs starting at the first chapter. I am going to have him do just a few verses at a time. Right now, it will be the first six verses. This afternoon, we might have him do a few more.

After lunch, we will be doing geography. I know we are supposed to do it in the morning, but the family that joined us had to drop it because the father is taking his GED classes. I most certainly am not going to interfere with that. But, they will be joining us for science. Tomorrow’s science is going to be baking with some extra fun thrown in. I’ll have several different things going so they can see the importance of following and understanding the directions being followed.

Well, we had piano and while they were in lessons, we picked up our order of Girl Scout cookies. They are evil, addictive concoctions made to force you to spend money on something you don’t want under the guise of needing it and helping a worthy cause.  

STAY AWAY FROM THE THIN MINTS!

Anyway, looking over Charlie’s copy work, he still has to practice neatness. His writing is horrible. He did not finish the six verses so he will continue it tomorrow after science.

He did help me in the yard with picking up trash and burning it. In cleaning the yard, I did discover something.

The good news is the hens are laying. The bad news it they are dropping from anywhere and the eggs are getting stomped or cracked. But, they are laying.