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Visiting One of the Most Famous Slot Canyons in the World
Seven girls met the requirements this year to go on our Castle Keeper end-of-year outing. The requirements were they could only miss one meeting and they had to complete all monthly challenges as well as all the culinary challenges which made a total of 18 challenges for the year. Just in time we received our Castle Keeper t-shirts, so all the girls were able to wear them on the first day. Our end-of-year outing is 2 two days to some place here in Arizona that I choose. This year I decided to take the girls to Lower Antelope Canyon (one of the most famous slot canyons in the world), Horseshoe…
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Celebrating! – A Homeschool Graduation Party
Apologies for the delay in posting this. We took the Castle Keeper girls on an outing – which you will hear all about at some point! 🙂 The evening of Serenity’s graduation was perfect. No rain, not too hot and not breezy – all things we’ve had to contend with this year. (We’re getting an amazing amount of rain this year – at least for Arizona – and it’s getting so green around here that it’s starting to look like Scotland!) My amazing sister was once again here to help me with everything. She did so much work the day before and with her and a few others in the…
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Preparing for My Daughter’s Homeschool Graduation
The day that we had been working so hard to prepare our back yard for arrived and most everything that was to be accomplished was completed. What a nice feeling to know that after hours upon hours of work, you are finished (almost). There’s still the kitchen area to be built and some landscaping projects to finish but the bulk of it has been completed! Of course, there was much preparation with over 200 guests coming. So many willing hands were there to assist. Vases had to be filled with water Flowers picked up (Thanks, dad!) and arranged. And that waterfall! More flowers had to be planted. The framework for…
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Preparing for My Guests
While much work has been going on outside, I’ve had my share of things I’ve been doing in the house in preparation for family members arriving this week. 14 loaves of whole wheat bread were baked and placed in the freezer 40 pounds of granola was made And I’ve been writing all these little tags to attach to our favors. The tags were purchased for $1.00/bag at Hobby Lobby at 50% off. The Sharpie is a gold metallic Extra Fine point pen. I really like the look the gold gives on the white tags. So much to do still…. 🙂
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The Effects of Rain in Arizona
Slowly we’re completing some of these backyard projects. This week, one area they focused on is where the swing set will be going. Two layers of weed fabric was put down in case of punctures from the gravel. This is the first layer. It was breezy so they used the shovels to hold the fabric down. Then a second and heavier duty weed fabric was put down. The gravel all placed. But then… we had the most torrential downpour that I ever remember having. We had over 3″ of rain in about 30 minutes! So many areas were flooded including the swing set area. Our basement (It’s a storage area.)…
