Sonlight Core G Week 34 B August 22-29, 2016

Sonlight Core G 

Week 34 B 

August 22-29, 2016 

I need to get an 'after' picture of these rooms, as the color turned to almost blackish blue by the time she got all the coats on.  She wanted it to look like a night sky to go with her glow-in-the-dark stars she has on her ceiling.  She also painted the other room of the loft this dark blue color, but has now decided to paint that other area a deep, dark red color.  

Hello Friends!

Good weather lead to lots of working on the house, and less time on our lessons this week.  Because we could turn off the AC, we could get to some painting. 



 Dd had a massive week of working on her bedroom loft.  She used up all the dark blue we had; rearranged and sorted her whole space!  I gave the basement 'rec room' it's second coat of green paint.  The basement bathroom took most of my week's hours of labor...boy, were the walls a challenge!  The hard part of this house, was that the previous owners we huge fans of wall-paper.  I know of at least THREE layers of wall-paper in that small space.  

I didn't manage to get a 'after' picture yet.  Dd decided to try out a purple/lavender color on the walls when I wasn't there...

Giz tried to take off some of the paper when here (when we went to Niagara Falls), and she accidentally left a lot of notches out of the dry wall with her tool.  I had to use a lot of Spackle to repair the holes.  I could go on, in detail, to all the things I had to do in that bathroom--but, I'll just say I worked on it for hour after hour!  It is almost ready for a layer of Kilz next.

Five cardboard panels in this side, at this point.

Dh and I worked hard on the chicken coop, and did some work on the bigger, extended run too.  We had planned on just working on the new fencing for the extention, but rain pushed us inside, out of the mud.  So, we put up the outside insulation around the chicken coop.  Dh had some of these big insulation boards from his work, that they were going to thow out, so he brought them home for us to use to keep our chickens extra warm.  We already had bought and installed insulation when we made the walls for the chicken coop, on the inside, but this new insulation was for the outside of the coop.  The outside of our coop is actually inside our barn/out-building, but since our barn is not heated or cooled, we thought we could use all the insulation we had to make sure our chickens aren't stressed by the weather in Michigan!  

All panels in, on both sides!  We had to cut each panel to fit each slot individually.

Wednesday was my appt with my doctor--- I had to wait almost 3 weeks to get in!  I won't go into all the details, but she took me off my migraine medication which was really taking a huge toll on my blood pressure (way too low).  I can thankfully say that after being off it my blood pressure has begun to come up some and my daily headaches have stopped! Praise the Lord, and my doctor.  

I've enclosed some lovely pictures of Fallsburg Park, throughout this post!

We went to Fallsburg Park for a little picnic, and short walk around.  We thought we were meeting some friend there, but I had hit 'reply' to the wrong person, and communication failed.  It was still really nice to go to the park with Dd.

Friday-Monday morning we had one of Dd's friends over for a long weekend of fun.  I picked her up on Friday at 11:30 and brought her home on Monday at 9:30, so that was a good, LONG, visit!  I took the girls to the library and Ball's Ice Cream Shop on Friday.  They swam and watched a LOT of movies---LOTR & Star Wars.

Our garden is home to the most awesome spider!  She has a bee hanging in a cocoon in the web's center.  I wish I could share how really cool the web is, and how magnificent her coloring is, but all I have are these pictures--which doesn't do it justice.

Let's get to our lessons:

Bible:

Fervent by Priscilla Shirer

Math:

No Math this week

Science: 

Apologia General Science:

Quarterly Test (third quarter)

Magic School Bus VHS "Get's Eaten"

never too old for MSB!

Sonlight Read Aloud:

The Phantom Tollbooth: in process

Sonlight Reader:

Master Cornhill

The roots from this tree form a huge skirt around it's base---really beautiful.

History:

BiblioPlan Companion: Medieval History

Ch. 23: The Spanish Reconquista

Ch. 24: Explorer's From Portugal and Spain

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

pg 230-231

Favorite Poems Old and New

pg 452-453

Home Economics:

Made Hamburgers and Started Grill

Grilled Hot dogs

Painting Bedroom--18 hours over week

Cleaning and Rearranging, inside and outside house: 13 hours

Chicken Care: collecting eggs, cleaning straw: 2 hours

Kitchen chores: 2 hours

Our garden is doing great!!!

Library:

Two visits this week

PE:

Swimming in pool : 2 hours

Hike at Fallsburg Park:

I've put in a bunch of our pictures from this lovely park throughout this post to share with you.

Music:

Lesson with Mrs March (piano lesson): 30 minutes

Fundamentals of Piano Theory: Unit 5 completed

Saxophone: zero

Piano: 3: 30 hours/minutes

Violin: 1: 30 hours/minutes

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