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Monday, June 15, 2009 at 5:20PM 
I haven't been online lately because I've been busy with my family and the farm and homeschool (boy, am I regretting taking two months off for Christmas!) and relaxing after several months of constant Goober activity. There are a lot of things I miss about living in town (Taco Bell and DSL, for instance) but sitting in my car for hours each day waiting for The Goobs to be finished with whatever it is that they're doing is NOT one of them. Okay, now for some updates!
We're nearing the end of our school year, and we are not as far along as I'd like. The Goobs have both finished their math and grammar books, which is good, but neither one of them has finished their Latin and JellyMan is only about halfway through Classical Writing. That isn't good at all. For history we have been watching Ken Burns' Civil War series, and we will follow that up with a trip to Gettysburg. JellyMan is memorizing Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Anemone is learning The Battle Hymn of the Republic. For science we've been insect collecting and bird watching. (Yeah, I know. But we left the dissection equipment at home. I couldn't quite bring myself to spend 11 hours trapped in a car with sheep brains.) We have seen some good stuff - Baltimore orioles, bluebirds, hawks, owls and barn swallows, and I was able to get this picture of a pair of goldfinches that hang around my mom's porch.
We've been busy with the garden; The Goobs have planted beans, corn, pumpkins and gourds and have tilled and weeded and staked and watered. They painted a few flower pots for toad houses - we've seen several and they look like they could use a permanent residence. The men have been out making hay while the sun shines, and we had a lot of excitement when the new bull made his appearance (more about that later.) We've had wienie roasts with the family and hikes through the woods on our own, and we've hunted coyote and pinned insects and got stuck in the mud. The Goobs have made solo trips on the four wheeler and the truck. We've seen at least fifty deer (including a dead fawn gripped in the jaws of a wolf hybrid) and we've managed to avoid the ticks. The guys at the feed store know our names, we're caught up with all the doings of the cousins and we're all sunburned. In short, it's been just another trip home.
And now I'm off to look at tractors. Woo-hoo.
cows, nature in Farm, Homeschool
Reader Comments (7)
Sounds like a lot of fun to me!
I want to be where you are. I want to play with the cows and I'll even shovel hay.
That sounds like good times.
I'm glad that you are having a great trip. Catching up with family is fun. We just got back from visiting family in Chicago the past week. Good luck finishing up your school year.
That cow picture is hilarious!! The finches are beautiful. I love the farm life pictures of your goobs:) What a wonderful experience for them.
We are going until 6/19 because of time we took off too:p Thanks for the update. I have been neglecting my blog too. The weeks have been flying and I don't see it slowing down for another couple of weeks.
You are doing much better than I did while out of town. I did not one single post for 1 1/2 weeks.
It looks like ya'll are having a great time and doing plenty of work. Now that the beans and corn are planted, have you heard of the 3 sisters method of planting them? You plant corn, climbing beans, and squash together. The corn provides a place for the beans to climb and the squash covers the ground so not as many weeds grow (and there is something about nitrogen and all that science stuff on why it works so well).
Glad that you are all having a good time. Shame the Man can't be there to help the Goob's w/their work.