Spring has come to our neck of Maine, and with has come the annual fidgets. The children are sick of doing regular lessons, and we are all ready to spend some time outside. As homeschoolers its okay for us to ease up off the daily grind, and focus our attention on other things for a…
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Preparing for the Arrival of Our Bee Colony
For those of you who don’t already know–I’m an avid gardener. I garden using the biointensive method, companion planting, and other organic methods. This year I am excited to be adding my first backyard beehive to my organic garden methods. I’ve been reading: The Hive and the Honey Bee; and I’m working on a new …
Climbing Bald Mountain in Rangeley
As an early Mother’s Day gift, my husband arranged to take me out–without kids–to do whatever I wanted. I chose to climb Bald Mountain in Rangeley. It’s a pleasant drive on Route 4 from Farmington, through Strong, Phillips, and Madrid, along the Rangeley Lakes Scenic Byways, to get to Rangeley. Click here to view a…
We Love TinTin! and Comic Books
It all started when Winter went out with Grammy one afternoon to the thrift store in Skowhegan. He came back with a few little trinkets they’d found together, including a paperback copy of The Adventures of TinTin in America. As a fan of quality classic literature like The Trumpet of the Swan and Moby Dick,…
FIDDLEHEADING: A Maine Tradition
Fiddleheading is a long-standing Maine tradition. It’s an annual adventure to trek to your local river-flats to pick the ferns before they unfurl in the Spring. Locals prize their picking-spots like a secret family recipe; I could tell you where I go, but then I’d have to kill you. Those who have never heard of…
The Maine Atlas
Somehow I lost my Maine Atlas, which is a key tool to roaming the state, so I had to go track down a new one. Wal-Mart didn’t seem to have one. Campbell’s True Value didn’t have one. Eventually I managed to find one at Irving’s, though I was informed that once those in stock are…
Spring Celebrations
As we did not celebrate Christmas, neither did we celebrate Easter this year. As secular homeschoolers we do not observe religious holidays, but as a self-proclaimed tree-hugger, I do make it a point to hold festivities relating to the changing of the seasons (please note: we are not wiccan or pagan, simply secular folk who…
A Tubal for Earth Day
I did it, and I’m proud of it. I gave the Earth the best gift I could think to give her this year for Earth Day (yes, I know I’m a little early, but she won’t mind)–I underwent Tubal Laparoscopy, in order to permanently prevent myself from incurring any other pregnancies in my life-time. A…