Paper Crafts

Paper boomerangs A friend pointed me to this really neat resource: Canon’s Creative Park. There are tons of models on their site ranging from monuments (Eiffel Tower, Castel d’ St. Angelo) to toys like chess sets and boomerangs. All the files are in PDF format. You just have to print all the pieces, cut them [...]

Bible Resource

Gary Petersen, who writes the blog Country Keepers, recently posted one of his projects. He put together a PDF version of A.T. Robertson’s A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ. Petersen’s post about the project and PDF file are here. It could be a good resource for homeschoolers who study [...]

Thanks, Adam and Jamie

Clearly, the kids have seen many (too many?) episodes of Mythbusters. J, staring at our recent purchase: “Mom, what are we going to do with the pineapple? Will you cut it up and turn it into ballistics gel? Adam and Jamie did that on Mythbusters…they went to a, um, a bone store and got bones [...]

Seeds

2009-04-19 Seeds Originally uploaded by Phisch We’ve started! Well, mom did actually, since the boys have a guest today and I wasn’t patient enough to wait until things settled down. I opted to start the seeds indoors instead of placing them directly in the boxes. Several reasons: there’s a squirrel that comes by every morning [...]

Yes, We Can!

Perhaps I’m making up for not going to the Tax Day Tea Party at the capitol to hear Gov. Perry mention “secession” and make the media crazy. Yes, I will miss historic events just to get us to the church on time. Maybe I am just protesting Big Agribusiness and the moolah they’re spending lately. [...]

Pioneer Farms

2009-03-20 Pioneer Farm Originally uploaded by Phisch More pics here but there’s a problem with the hard drive so not all the photos are there yet. You can, however, see NM try walking in stilts. Last Friday, the kids and enjoyed a field trip to Pioneer Farms here in Austin. It was once a farm [...]

Monday Madness, Musing, Miscellany…

My husband is amused with me because I am very concerned about how the butterflies we have will make it in the wild. “They’ve never experienced life on the outside, ” he teased. I was, however, concerned for a legitimate reason. I don’t think anything is supposed to touch their wings and they’ve been flapping [...]

Tired!

Did I take pictures? NO! Boo me. That’s ok, I’ll just write all about it for you. Let’s set the scene: Sunday, late in the day. The weather is warm and just the right amount of humidity. The combination of warm temperatures and overcast skies just screamed: go take a hike! If that scream didn’t [...]

New Things

After a trip to a local big-box-bookstore, we headed to the mailbox. I was pleased to find we had a nice little package waiting: butterfly larvae. J’s Auntie J and Uncle Rich and cousin E gave him a butterfly house for his birthday so we were looking forward to seeing the baby butterflies. They’re tiny, [...]

The Content of Our Characters

Yesterday, the boys and I did a Martin Luther King study and listened to his most: “I Have a Dream.” Here are some of the more memorable lines: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their [...]

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