Well I’m still here. I bet you weren’t so sure. We’ve been swept with storm after storm this spring, flood waters have risen to record levels, damage has been wrought, but alas we are still here and just fine. Times are still tough, we have had our struggles, but all-in-all we consider ourselves very fortunate…
Lightning and a Rainbow
I have had the itch to code and design a bit lately, and I really like this image. I took it last June as a storm was just passing us. I really relate to this image – it gives me a feeling like this past year embraces. Extremes, oddities and just kind of different. But…
01.9.11 so close yet so far from 9.11.01
It’s only been dark a couple of hours in Tucson, Arizona. The second of many dark nights to come. And I keep thinking about the mom. It was just a day ago, and everything was all right. Or it should’ve been. The irony. She gave birth to a beautiful, baby girl on one of the…
Time4Learning Online Curriculum – The Initial First Month Review
My two younger daughters and I have been trying out the online curriculum “Time4Learning”:http://www.time4learning.com for the past month. I had read about “Time4Learning”:http://www.time4learning.com in a review done by “Woolwytch,”:http://woolwytch.com/ last year sometime. The verdict thus far is that we really like it. For help on this interview, I had each of the girls write their…
Winter is here early
We had a borderline-blizzard this past weekend and the temps have been frigid. At one point last night it was 8 feels like 0 degrees! The lowest I saw it go was 6. We did only have a few inches of snow but the winds were so blustery the few inches we received were blown…
Time4 Learning Online Curriculum Review
I’ve been invited to try Time4Learning for one month in exchange for a candid review. My opinion will be entirely my own, so be sure to come back and read about my experience. Time4Learning can be used as an “online homeschooling curriculum,”:http://www.time4learning.com/curriculum/demos.html a “web based afterschool tutorial”:http://www.time4learning.com/curriculum/afterschool.html or an “online summer program.”:http://www.time4learning.com/summer-school.shtml Find out how…
Two Months later – Summer 2010
Well, let’s see, what is there to update… We had another heifer born a month later, to the Long Horn cow. And then another born to the other Piney Hill on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend. The same weekend Sister and family moved back to town, off of the ranch It’s been a VERY…
We have a heifer!
Our first calf on the property was born this morning – on BooHopper’s birthday, to boot! So far, I haven’t gotten close enough to confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt, but it _looks_ like we have a heifer! (baby girl cow) This is awesome! We want lots of girls – we only need one…
Random Update 6082010
The sheep were shorn this past Sunday- FINALLY! Our shearer is VERY busy, since he covers several states while holding down a full time job in the construction industry. Sheep shearing is a bit of a lost art, I suppose. We were surprised with a couple of lambs again this year. The ram escaped about…
Too bad health care reform is not helping me
Yes, I am currently one of the statistics. I am uninsured. _He_ was laid off last year and was forced to take a job without insurance benefits. Insurance is expensive. Unfortunately, I am unable to see how the health care reforms that were passed are going to help me at all. It would be cheaper…