Sonlight Core H Week 3(A) Nov. 14-21, 2016

Sonlight Core H 

Week 3(A) 

Nov. 14-21, 2016

(Sat. Indiana Gun Season/Deer Hunting began)

The snow actually stuck---it snowed most of Saturday, but the accumulation didn't amount to much for all that effort.

Hello Friends! 

 The big excitement was that Dh and Dd went to Indiana, just the two of them, for the opening of deer hunting season.  Dh alternated between hunting with his long-time hunting partner and Dd.  While with his friend, he shot a very large buck---boy, weren't they surprised to find he had 6 points on side of the antler, and the other side was missing...? He would have been a 12 point buck (big/older) if both sides were still there.  We have no idea what happened to the other side!

Giz (Dh's mother, Dd decided grandma should be called "Giz" sometime around her 2nd birthday and it stuck!), decided she and Dd would work on quilting blankets with their time together. 

The blanket/quilt Dd and Giz have been working on.

 Dd had bought a pretty white cotton, thick, table cloth with large red roses on it, and they added batting and a green fleece back and made it into a quilt.  I think they had fun.  Dd is making another one with the extra green and batting left over.

Gingerbread cookie making also filled in their time together.  Dd also played her alto sax, tenor sax, flute, and piano at Giz and Grampy's house.  Dd also played piano with two little relatives that Giz had scheduled to babysit while Dd was there.  I guess it was quite a cute sight--Dd with each little girl on each side of her at the piano bench!!!  Dd had older cousins that were not very interested in her when she was little, at family functions, so she is being extra, extra loving and kind towards these children, as she knows how that can impact.  I'm so glad that she can take those hardships and turn them into being a better person, instead of just repeating the bad behavior.

Synopsis of our week:

Dh and Dd had left for the farm on Fri., so Monday and Tuesday she spent time there - learning a lot from Giz and having fun too.  Tuesday night they returned back to Michigan!  Dd had got sick on Tuesday morning, vomiting by evening...of course! so she came home 'under the weather.'  

While collecting marigold blooms/seeds, I found a small clutch of eggs--seven EGGS were under this marigold!

Monday and Tuesday, while Dd & Dh were in Indiana, I unpacked many of our boxes, finished all the filing (3 file boxes hadn't been opened for almost three years!), gathered LOTS of marigold blooms and spread them out on three cookie sheets to dry-out, and got a lot of our banking and accounts up to date...boring stuff that I had been putting off for far too long!

I harvested another three cookie sheets of large marigolds, some for me, and some for friends.

Tuesday morning I walked down to get on our computer in the basement and noticed our kitty, Agnes, shuffling about--acting erratic.  I went in the utility room to see what was up, and some hose had broke and water was spewing all over the floor! Gasp! Panic! cell phone...calls...prayer...and finally Grampy came to the rescue and told me which thing to turn off!  You'd think I would know which was the main, but I'm too new in this house!  What a shock!  I'm so glad I stayed home, and was able to catch the problem before our basement got flooded!

Wednesday: Dd was able to go to her band classes, and her private piano lesson.  She took a nap when we got home, and made it back out for our church program, Olympians.  When we got home, we had the best surprise....a wonderful new snowblower!  Seriously, I can't count how many hours I shoveled our 200-300 yard drive-way; which almost seems like a mini-road!  This is going to make a huge difference on the amount of time I'm going to have to spend shoveling snow this winter!!!  You can't imagine what a HUGE relief this is!!!  Praise the Lord!

Dd put up a rain gauge that G&G had given her months ago---after she got it all in I had to tell her she couldn't leave the plastic tube outside b/c it would freeze!  She was happy she got the hardware installed, even if she has to wait until spring to see it in action!

Thursday: Back to some lessons, and Dd continued to recover (sleep) from her big excursions! I got to experience the wonders of the "stress test" and be told that I did better 'than most people half my age,' which I fist thought was a compliment, but then realized the nurses were calling me OLD!  It was very quick and mostly easy, though I hadn't planned on running on an incline---I had thought it was just running on a treadmill.  Glad I got it done, and hope the info might be helpful.

Friday: This was the LAST of our Indian Summer, so I worked like, as my Dh would say, "a borrowed mule!"  Seriously!  I worked outside the whole day...leaving our house to continue to be a mess!  

While weeding, I came across these potatoes!  I had forgotten that I stuck in an old potato in the spring!!

Dh bought three big bags of daffodil bulbs that needed to be planted.  Dd and I had a lot of fun choosing our spots, digging and weeding, and then planting our bulbs. 

Sophie happy to watch us work!

 I re-did our front two gardens, making them bigger to accommodate the bulbs. 

The chickens had a BLAST "helping" me plant the new bulbs!  They scored so many worms, it was crazy!  I put up the rock border as well.

 I added a big rock border to the garden beside the front door---which sounds quick and easy, but took about five - six hours to do!  I am fairly close to wrapping up the outside chores that have to be done before winter....which is a good thing because it SNOWED all day Saturday!  Winter has arrived in Michigan, folks! 

The garden that Dd worked on--Friday

Saturday:
Dh finished up the molding on the new patio doors!!!

These doors are so much better than the last set!

Chickens:

They got a new feeder this week! It is the metal one that is hanging down against the dark blue wall.  They are needing the heat lamp already.

Here is the insulation that I built up above their coop:

A shot from the stairwell going down into the lower part of the building---below you can see the wall of the chicken coop and above you can see the floor where I stacked up insulation that is just above them.  They have around 3 feet of insulation above them.

Academics for the week: 

Bible:
I've been having Dd choose a bible verse each week and write it down, in cursive, in her special book.

Veritas Press: Gospels: Student Notebook: Completed

The BBC Manuel: (Sonlight's bible program):
pg's 24-26, 26-29, 36-38

But Don't All Religions Lead to God?
Ch. 5 & 6

Dd went to church and Sunday School with her grandparents this week, in Indiana.



History:
Story of the World: Early Modern Times
Ch. 3-5

Sonlight Reader:
The Iron Peacock by Mary Stetson Clarke: Completed
Amazon review: Joanna Sprague's life is upended when her father dies on the voyage that was to take them to a new life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Poor and alone, 16-year-old Joanna must summon uncommon courage to survive life as a bond servant in a strange new world. An unforgettable, captivating story.

Great for ages 12 - 14.

Khan Academy: Math: 2 hours this week

Poetry:
Painless Poetry:
pg's 249-259, 270-271, 272-293



Language Arts:
IEW SWI B: Lesson 11: in process



Physical Education/PE:

Hunting with Pappa: 4-5 hours

Gardening, planting bulbs...etc.: 6 hours

Leaf blowing: 1:30 hours

Chicken Care: 1:00 hour

Home Economics:

Laundry and cat care: 1:30 hours

Angel Food Cake and Icing: 1:45 hours

Chicken Parmesan: 1:00 hour

Brenda Lee says hello!

Audio 1:
The Miraculous Tales of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo: Completed
Amazon review: Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. . . . 

Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. Along the way, we are shown a miracle -- that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.

Audio: 2:
Guardians of Ga'Hoole, #7: The Hatchling by Kathryn Lasky:
 In process




Fun Books:
The Swap : Completed
My Life withe the Walter Boys: Completed
Dune: sipping off and on
Spirit's Princess: In Process

Art: 
Drawing: 1 hour



Music: total 12:35 hours
Piano: 3:00 hours
Alto Sax: 3:15 hours
Tenor Sax: 2:30 hours
Flute: 20 minutes
Beginning Band (Tenor): 1:30 hours
Intermediate Band (Alto): 1:30 hours
Piano lesson: 30 minutes

Our first sticking snow!

Looking forward to next week--and a time to be overly Thankful for all of our blessings!!!  May each of you count each blessing and find an abundance!

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