SL Core H Week 27 "A" Sept. 17-23, 2017 Fall Square Dance

SL Core H Week 27 "A" 

Sept. 17-23, 2017

Fall Square Dance

Did I share that I think both our Peking Ducks must be males?  I can stop looking for those big, delicious duck eggs now!  Merry and Pippin, like in LOTR, are both boys!

Hello Friends!

The girls at the Square Dance on Saturday.

Honeysuckle asleep...in that position!  Funny!

We had another busy schedule again this week as we try to do garden, canning, chickens, kittens, and lessons throughout the week.  The saving grace in this situation is that the garden and canning will come to an end fairly soon, that is once these high 90 degree days come to an end.  Our area is in a state of drought currently; which is so odd for this area!  We usually have too much water.  I've been having to water my gardens a lot lately, and see no end in sight.

I canned green beans on Monday

I hope the weather stays nice long enough to grow more veg!

What the Dickens!?!  Here's Dickens and Honeysuckle waking up.

It's great getting to eat our own potatoes!

Chickens/Ducks:

Zeus is back to his old tricks again....he is trying to attack me again...oh dear.  I hope he can get beyond this or he might not survive the winter.  Pauline, a Buff Orpington hen, is dropping all her feathers!  She looks so funny--and sad!  I guess this is what real molting must look like.  Her new feathers are coming right in and she shouldn't look bad for too long.  I'm still foraging around for their daily greens.  Luckily, there are plenty of wild grape vines all over for me to pull down and put in their runs.

Our beans are still growing and producing - I can't believe we never grew beans before; they are so easy and fun.

We got the cover on the pool, but are still working on getting the algae down under it.  Chuch from church is ordering us some algaecide to put in.  We'll put a pump in the water to stir the chemicals in.

Pool:

We finally got the big winter cover on the pool, though the water is very green.  

Virginia Creeper and Poison Ivy are all turning red; it is beginning to really look like fall here.  Our front driveway is covered in leaves.

Garden:

I canned green beans, one cumin potato, and tomato paste/sauce this week.  I picked out the last zucchini and then gave all the greens to the chickens.  It is funny to see the bare spot.

I'm still getting my breakfast 'green smoothy' from my chard, radish, and two varieties of kale out of my garden.  I use to spend over five dollars buying bags of greens each week.  It is nice to make my smoothies from the greens I pick out of the garden, plus they are picked and eaten within the same hour so it couldn't be fresher!  

 I worked really hard on some more tomato paste.  I cooked it down for about 24 hours and reduced it more than 50% before I canned it.  I only got 4-pint jars in the end, but the paste should be excellent for some future meal.

Our lessons this week:

The new lettuce I planted has mysteriously vanished; perhaps snails?  Whatever it is has left this section of new kale alone.  The other area I planted with kale is also doing well.  But, it is too bad about the lettuce---I was looking forward to that!

Bible:

We are still reading through the New Testament by using our "Integrated Bible" that lists the NT in chronological order.

Healing at the Pool & The Authority of the Son:  John 5: 1-47

Testimonies About Jesus & Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath: Matt 12: 1-14

Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath& Jesus Heals on the Sabbath: Mark 2:23-3:6

I've focused this week on collecting seeds from the three types of tomatoes we are growing to use next year.  I even picked out the seeds from one of the green peppers.  We've not tried this before and hope it will work.  I've spread out the seeds on a paper towel covered cookie sheet and then placed outside in the sun.  I rinsed off the seeds really well before, using various strainers.

On Saturday, Dd volunteered to work the kitchen for the funeral for a church member.  She did a good job helping out.  She and I worked together to make a big bowl of potato salad to bring.  I also made some rice crispy treats for the dessert table, they are gluten free and our church often forgets to have anything GF, so I try to bring something.

Then Sat night she went to the Square Dance at the HSB with her friends.  They had a great time and remembered a lot of the steps from their previous dances.  I had fun chatting with some of the other mom's in the gym.

Daring to Live Life On The Edge by Loren Cunningham

Ch. 6

I chopped up bunches of Basil and worked them into some soft butter, salt, garlic powder, and onion powder, then used a spoon to get similar sizes onto a cookie sheet before placing the tray in our freezer.  After they froze I put them into Ziplock bags and returned to the freezer.  

Dd's Bible:

Romans 3, 7, 8

Church, Sunday School, Olympians (Games volunteer 1:30 hours), Strings Group, and Youth Program on Sunday night.  Our Olympians has been showing a very interesting DVD series called "The Nature of God" 

 If Peter Schriemer has his way about it, however, that will soon change. As creator, host and author of Zonderkidz’s new The Nature of God DVD, book and curriculum series, the award-winning filmmaker and energetic hands-on naturalist hopes to inspire children of all ages to be amazed at God’s creation and to explore the world around them. Most recently seen on the small screen as host of the Smithsonian Channel’s Critter Quest! television series, Peter created The Nature of God specifically for young learners and readers to show them how the Creator’s very nature is reflected in what he has made.

The Brussel sprouts are growing

History:

BiblioPlan: Early Modern History

Ch. 11: Bacon's Rebellion; King Phillip's War: Completed

Ch.12: Freedom of Religion for the Middle Colonies, The Glorious Revolution: In Process

Read Aloud:

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: In Process

Our last week having zuchini--I pulled them out this week and fed them to the chickens.  They did so well this year!  Dh made zucchini fritters two weekends in a row and boy, were they delicious!!!!

Foreign Language:

DuoLingo: German - 15 min

Math:
Saxon Geometry at Grace HS Academy 

Lessons 5,6,7,8 plus class 
To my utter dismay when Dd came out of her math class this week she was beyond frustrated and said her teacher didn't explain things very well.  She didn't think she would be able to do her work for next weeks lessons....she is planning on asking Dh for help.

Latin:

Word Roots pg's 93 & 94

I couldn't find the kittens anywhere!

Grammar:

Easy Grammar, Plus pg 335

Eventually, I thought to look inside the old chicken crate...

Reader 1:

The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy: In Process

And look what I saw inside!!!!

Reader 2:

Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi: In Process

Science: 

Apologia Physical Science: Notebook pages 

Honeysuckle on the highest part of their scratching post.  It is really hard to get a good picture of her!

Music Classes:

Piano: 30 min with Wendy

Piano Theory each week

Guitar 1:30 hours with Strings Group

Viola: 30 min with Christie

Alto Sax with Inter. Band 1:30 hours

Violin with Inter. Orchestra 1:30 hours

Music Practice:

Alto: 2:30 hours

Violin: 2:30 hours

Viola: 30 min

Piano: 30 min

Sewing:

Dd has been working on cutting out the shapes for a new pattern for a skirt she wants to make.  She's cut out a few pieces already, but still has a lot to do!

The potato plants are all dying---that means it is time to dig up those potatoes - to eat and can!

Art Classes:

Painting Studio and Botany art class on Friday--went well!

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