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{pfhr} Dancing Sharks
It’s getting harder to find activities we can all do together as a homeschool. B moves so fast, with so much homework, that I feel like he’s always zooming out of the frame, even when he’s not on a...
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Raccooned Turtle Eggs
A few weeks ago on Morning Run Around Outside Time, the sandy head at Mechanic’s Pond had a large X on it, with two partly buried turtle egg groups. So M and K walked around it to play in the water....
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{p,f,h,r} Another Use for packing Tape
M got his top braces off Tuesday. The movie in the waiting room was boring, so K and I read a Family Fun Magazine from last Summer, where we found an idea for making a bracelet out of sticky side out...
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Hawks on Rt 17
I saw about 5 hawks on rt 17 heading to and from Aunt B’s memorial service. Also 2 bald eagles, and 5 deer. My kids (even K!) behaved pleasantly in the car. K is apparently able to follow the...
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The Owl Dan Saw on his Way to Work this Moring
I was walking back from lunch, almost at work, when I heard a commotion up in the tree by the ten mile river, actually the outlet of the old turbine chase, I looked up expecting to see a squirrel, saw...
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Daddy’s Sunday Walks with K {p,f,h,r}
Dan took K for a walk in Grandma’s woods on Sunday to see if the salamanders were up yet. I was glad we got a little more wear from her pretty pink dress, it used to be long on her. I love looking at...
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Trustem Pond Walk on Father’s Day (a bit late)
My Mom packed a lunch for us to eat at church, then we drove to Trustem Pond in RI. We did get slightly turned around. The ranger was surprised we hadn’t visit Ninigret instead, maybe next year? The...
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Caratunk during the flute lesson
I now have map of the Cartunk Wildlife Preserve in my purse We walk there during Ben’s flute lesson, his teacher has moved into smaller quarters, that don’t have a lawn to play on. We know we can walk...
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Snowy, Spring trip to the Zoo with Daddy
My hair froze on my way home from the pool. This solar Spring seems very theoretical. I have been struggling to get K outside, so when Dan offered to take her to the zoo on Saturday, I was very...
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As long as we needed to drive 50 miles
Dan took off from work this Monday to see to car chores. Our mechanic suggested driving with a catalytic converter solution to see if the check engine light would go off, we needed to drive 50 miles....
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Hint and Seek led to Fish Census
M and I were on an emergency shoe shopping trip to North Attleboro (the plastic heel cup was poking through his shoe!) We also needed some emergency crochet hooks (all my hooks had mysteriously...
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Warm Sunday Afternoon at Caratunk
K working on the lean-to at Caratunk This winter has had odd warm days sprinkled about, one of them was a Sunday, and we went walking after church with our friend R. K in the lean-to Whenever we get...
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DH Guest Post: Wentworth with Ben, SS ReedWreck Construction with M & K
Benjamin Poses with the Wentworth Leopard Benjamin and I attended the “Accepted Student Day” at Wentworth Institute of Technology on April 1. The MBTA station is about a 7 minute walk from our house....
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Luna Moth on the Front Stoop
K called me from the porch, “Mom! Come see this moth that looks like a leaf!” I should have put something in here for scale, it was as wide as my hand is long. The color and size reminded me of the...
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Lovely Afternoon throwing Pinecones in the Woods
This afternoon we took a walk and climbed on things. As long as we have an earlier sunset, might as well get outside while we can. And they chased each other a lot. Whatever Matt can do, I will try…...
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Walk in the Snow and sunshine with K
It was above freezing yesterday, since we’ve had temperatures below zero (F) that’s quite the temperature difference. We were charmed. And I didn’t want to set up a Mailchimp list for the testing coop,...
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And the zombie rises from the snow
This goose was noisily (and as far as I could tell) happily eating grass in the bits of our yard that had been un-covered. It’s wing feathers were cut short and stuck out at a funny angle. We wondered...
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It’s Like Spring Out there
January without snow may look bleak and dreary, but when it smells like a thaw, it’s happy. We took a walk in the 58 degree (F) heat to pick up some exciting things at the grocery store – baking soda...
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Fungus and Flu (they alliterate, no other connection)
M in yellow dishgloves getting ready to look at a shelf fungus under the microscope I’ve been thinking I should get more photos of M up on the blog, so last Saturday when he did his lab I pulled out...
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Photos from 2 weeks of use them or lose them days off for Dan
Dan had 9 days to take off from work left this year. K and Matt took the weeks off from the homeschool that I assigned them, but they still had Eagle’s Wings, and Good Company Tutorials. Ben still...
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