Our community garden is heavy with ripe produce. It’s so fun to see what everyone has planted in their plots. This poor pumpkin somehow got stuck! It should be fun trying to get it out. The gardeners may have to make their pie right in the garden. 🙂 Although the garden is brimming with lush […]
My friend Caroline arranged for a tour of a small apple farm on Friday. We had a ton of fun – who would have thought an apple farm would have horses, honeybees, and hayrides? (Not to mention homemade doughnuts and cider.) Here’s a glimpse of our day from my homeschool journal: September 2. We went […]
Our days have been full of sun, water, squishy mud, fishing, friends, and picnic lunches. And ordering school supplies and books and building hydrogen fuel-cell cars and Cuisenaire rod towers. And reading lots of storybooks, history books, fact books, and one certain young man hogging the library’s microfilm machine for hours on end. And for […]
We went for a drive yesterday, and just drank in the awesomeness of living here all over again. Here is the Continental Divide. I’m used to seeing it completely white, but the sun has finally melted most of the snow up there. We practically drove through  a complete double rainbow. It’s amazing how it goes right […]
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” -George Eliot
