HSB Annual Used Booksale and Migraine Week June 11-17, 2017 (Core H Week 21C)

HSB Annual Used Book Sale and Migraine Week 

June 11-17, 2017 

 (Core H Week 21C)

It occurred to me, during the last hour of the sale, to take a photo of the sale!  Things had really settled down and the crowd was thin by this point, but it is still fun to see it!

Hello, Friends!

Monday was a very big day!!!  I worked for a week to prepare for the annual homeschool used book sale, at the HomeSchool Building.  I don't even have words to describe how crazy the sale is, or how hot it was in that tin can gymnasium!  We all literally sweated the whole time!  Dd helped me load and unload our van and set up our two tables.  Then during the sale, we would take turns watching our 'booth' and shopping the other tables.  We arrived at 10:30 am and got home around 8-8:20 pm!  What a long day!  It is nice to give back to the homeschool community.  For once, my Sonlight books did not sell well but my other books did.  I sold a bunch of Life of Fred books that we haven't gone back to in a few years, $10 each, and they sold like hot cakes!  I think I should have put a bit of a higher price on them as everywhere else they were selling for $14 and they weren't in new condition like ours were.  Oh well!  We blessed a few people and were blessed by others.

Sonlight Instructor Guides:
One woman was selling old (13 years old) IG's; specifically 200, 300, and her 400.  I bought all three, but there were to be two problems.  It had slipped my mind I already owned the 200! and one of her IG's was missing the first seven weeks worth of IG pages!  I guess I could deduce what books the core started off with my checking off the books in the 8-36 weeks line up, but, oh, that was a bother!  I did find about ten books for our upcoming cores, and a few that aren't in our cores, but one's I'd like to include!

Garden & Ducks:

When I got home from the book sale, the ducks were IN my garden!  They had been staying in their pool and sleeping there, but today they had really trampled our plants and were caught eating my lettuce and spinach leaves!!!  I've decided the pool needs to be moved into the long chicken run that is behind our outbuilding. 



Garden/Veg:
Our garden is doing really well.  I've gone this whole week without having to buy my "Power Green" (bag of spinach, chard, kale, radish) super bag from Costco.  Instead, I've been picking from my own garden!  I'm not sure if it could be the turnip greens that caused all the extra heartburn or something else--so I've taken the day off of that.  I've planted more Swiss Chard (red, yellow, and white colored), lettuce, spinach, and kale this week.  I've been picking a lot and watering a lot.  This week was so hot and muggy that we decided to go ahead and turn on the air conditioning!  I had to water each morning and each evening.  



New Veg:
Dh came home on Monday with a bunch of new plants from a greenhouse!  I had them planted that night!  Let's see---green peppers, banana peppers, two tomato specialties, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, Rosemary herb, Lemongrass herb, and thyme.  He bought some green bean seeds, and put up the metal poles for their growing needs...now for him to put the seeds in the ground!  We are about full up and don't have much space for anything else.  I think I might be able to put some lettuce or spinach seeds around the brussel sprout seedlings- I don't think they are going to grow too fast.

Chickens:

I found another new egg--this one wasn't in a nice hard shell like the first one I found, but in a rubbery case.  I also found a new hard egg in a little nest one of the Amber or Links made in the straw on the floor of the inner chicken coop.  The chickens are all doing really well and some are getting quite heavy!  Each morning I am bringing all the chickens (and ducks), except the two Bantams, out to the chicken run to spend the day.  Then at bedtime we bring them all back to the chicken tractors in the garage.  We need to build another roost (bar) inside the chicken coop if we want the young chicks to move permanently in with the older ones.  I'm not sure if they have all got acclimated to each other enough to make the move a 24/7 move yet!  But, I think it will be soon.  I'm really looking forward to not having all the extra clean up that comes with the chickens living in tractors in the garage.  The amount of time each day I have been spending on chickens, ducks, or the garden has been a lot!  Unless something tragic happens to the chickens, I am planning on taking next spring off from raising baby chicks.  

Dd's health:
The eye problem is better, and so is her acne, but she has been totally run-down all week.  Friday and Saturday she spent most of the day on the sofa or in my bed.  I'm beginning to wonder about mono---at least that is what Giz thinks could be the problem.  I'm hoping she can get better soon, as she has already been sick for over two weeks as it is.  

Migraines:

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday nights were massive migraine days or nights, or both.  My migraine on Wednesday was so bad, I was in bed most of Thursday.  For some reason, these have been real whoppers--vomiting and nausea and ugly.  Every once in a while, I will have a migraine cluster; where my body is just on a setting to be too sensitive.  I know I was really pressured trying to go through hundreds of books for the sale and marking each and every book, and that must have taken more of a toll than I realized.  I hope next week can be better.  In the past two weeks, I've gone to several doctor appointments and that is also very stressful for me.  I'm sure no one likes going!



House:
Dh completed the finishing pieces to the windows for the Sun Room.  It took a few different days, but he did get it all completed!



When Grampy was here, they removed the weather damaged pieces and replaced those with new wood.  They put in metal flashing under each window and then topped that off with plastic wood.  It should be impossible for these windows to rott again.

Pool:

On Saturday, Chuck, from our church, came over and helped us get our pool opened.  It has been so very hot this week that we had to turn on our air conditioning, but didn't have our pool to jump into to cool off.  The next week is suppose to be much cooler, and of course, it will be too cold to swim! Ha!  Life has a sense of humor!

Our first picnic of the season:



We went to a local ice cream shop after having pizza at a park.  



I couldn't eat the pizza, but it was still nice to be out with the family!

Academics:

The water at this beach isn't a lake, but the Grand River!

Music:

Wednesday Dd had her weekly Band Class: 9:30 -11 am

Sax lesson with Mrs. March: 9-9:30 am

Alto Sax Audition Sign-Up:

We signed Dd up for her auditions this week; which will be in July.  She has to audition with her Alto Sax for either the Advanced Band or the highest group, the Concert Band.  It is most likely she will get into the Advanced Band, and less likely that she will stay in the Intermediate Band class.

Violin Audition Sign-Up:

Also in July, the week after her Alto Sax audition, will be her audition for the Orchestra.  She is trying to get accepted into the Intermediate Orchestra, but there is also a tiny chance she could get into their highest group, the Symphony Orchestra.  We'll be happy with whichever class wants her!!

A Box Turtle showed up in our yard this week.  It was such a pretty turtle!  

Life Skills:

Dd was my cashier for most of the day on Monday.  This was a great exercise in interacting with strangers and being friendly and outgoing for my normally shy daughter!

Fun Reading:

Prudence by Gail Carringer: Finally Completed!!!

Math:

This week (Tues-Fri) Dd got back on Khan Academy math for 30 minutes each day.

Chores:

Bedroom, vacuuming, dishes, cat, and pool work!  

Next week we will slowly get a start back on some of our normal subjects again.  Things should be calm and regular soon!