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Custard, Chiffon Cake & Chocolate – Three Components that Together Make Great Individual Pies
What’s for dessert? Bostini Cream Pie. It was my first time to make it but it won’t be the last. This one’s a keeper.
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On to Sweeter Things
Now that you are thoroughly repulsed by the last post which showed our recent elk hunting trip with their carcases hanging in the tree, how about something sweet and lovely that will just make you laugh and melt at the same time. Of course this reaction may have happened to me since the sweet and lovely had to do with my son. But here, I’ll let you decide for yourself. On the return trip from the aforementioned elk hunting trip (did you really wanted to be reminded of that again?) Justus(4yo), as he was sitting next to me in the truck, looked at me and said, "Mommy, are you doing a good job child…
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2007 Elk Camp
Black in our nose, ears, hair, fingernails – every pore of our body. That’s what we looked like these past few days. We just returned from our elk hunt. When we arrived at our camping spot – the same spot we camped last year – the Forestry Service was doing prescribed burns in the area. We had smoky fires all around us. At night you could actually see the flames. It’s always dirty camping but with all the smoke in the air it made things worse. What’s dirt to a little boy? Serenity and her friend slept on this bunk-bed together. Her friend taught her how to knit which thrilled Serenity. There…
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Nature Study and America's First Naturalist
Recently, for part of our nature study we read William Bartram – America’s First Naturalist. William lived from 1739-1823. The book is written in a journal style and starts when he was 8 years old. Williams father was a botanist and passed on to William a love for nature. He taught William to identify plant families by looking at ‘the shape of the leaves, the structure of the seeds, buds, and flowers , the bark and branching patterns of trees.’ Between the two of them they are credited with introducing more then 200 plants into cultivation. Many plants would have become extinct if not for them. I read the first half of this book to…
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Sandstone Rock
This past week I learned something very interesting at Lake Powell. At least it was to me and since you all are homeschoolers I thought you might be bowled over by this fascinating bit of knowledge. Homeschooling moms are neat that way. My boys were familiar with sandstone but somehow I never had learned about it. It is what it’s name implies – sand. But when mixed with a mineral the sand holds together and makes it rock. If that mineral is silica, sandstone can even be used for structural purposes. Here is a large sandstone boulder. Lake Powell has sandstone cliffs all over, some up to 2,000 feet high. They sit right in the water and you wonder why…
