Posted in cool sites, Funnies on Aug 30th, 2010 3 Comments »
“The only things Elaine treasures more than her prized blue and white urn collection are the framed drawings of her blue and white urn collection.” This site is hysterical! Catalog Living imagines the story behind catalog pictures. You must go have a look! And maybe give the kids the task of ripping out some catalog [...]
Posted in Daily log, Fun, pictures on Aug 29th, 2010 4 Comments »
We usually have a special Not-back-to-school day, but this year we sort of went all out. Monday our local schools started and we wanted to do something special, but we had to wait for (and clean for) the tax appraiser. Which is not exactly magical. So we did a few fun things Monday and decided [...]
Posted in Charity & Community Good, cool sites, games, math, science on Aug 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Have you heard of Foldit? How does my game playing contribute to curing diseases? With all the things proteins do to keep our bodies functioning and healthy, they can be involved in disease in many different ways. The more we know about how certain proteins fold, the better new proteins we can design to combat [...]
Posted in Quotes on Aug 23rd, 2010 2 Comments »
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch out of a free, meandering brook.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
Posted in Field trips & tours, pictures on Aug 22nd, 2010 4 Comments »
We decided on an impromptu trip to the zoo last week and had a fabulous time. I even rode a camel! We learned lots about camels from the trainer. For instance… The camels were not owned by the zoo. The camel trainer is a freelancer who brought them for the summer. On September 1 he [...]
Posted in Green, nutrition on Aug 19th, 2010 2 Comments »
We’ve joined in with the Eat Local Challenge from August 15 to September 15 and it’s been fun so far. We’re not doing it that we have to eat *just* local foods, but that we have to eat at least one local food per day. So far, our local foods have included… Japanese and heirloom [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Examiner.com is redesigning their whole site, which means articles are wonky, pictures are missing, errors are widespread, and for a few examiners, entire columns are missing. Yep, I’m one of the unlucky few. If you follow my homeschooling column, you probably already know that it’s all gone — all redirected to someone else’s page no [...]
Posted in Daily log, plans for the day on Aug 13th, 2010 2 Comments »
We’re still insanely busy here. We took Annalee to the doctor today, since she’s had an ear infection since Nebraska that just will not quit. She was at the ER with a high fever and terrible pain down there, and 10 days and two prescriptions later she still can’t sleep well at night. Anna is [...]
Posted in Daily log, um... not much! on Aug 13th, 2010 3 Comments »
It has been oppressively hot upstairs in our house lately, where I unfortunately sleep, write and blog. Hence, I’ve been spending a lot of time downstairs and off the computer. Tonight we finally had a nice storm that cooled the world down a bit and finally brought a breeze. While it’s under 100, I figured [...]
Posted in science on Aug 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
It’s Perseid Metoeor Shower time! Victoria and I both saw a huge meteor the other night as we were walking, but the real show is set to start soon. Check out National Geographic for more details.
