Since I love horses and would love to own one someday (which will only actually happen if the stars align just right), this post made by Marci Diehl on Google+ caught my eye. I live less than 50 miles from the race track, but had not heard about this award-winning program until today. I plan to read more about FLTAP, but what I've learned of it ( Read more... )

According to this quiz, as a 1930s wife I am a complete failure:


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Within the last couple of summers I've gotten more into gardening, and with that, into baking and cooking what I grow. Although I haven't grown my own zucchini yet, I received some from a friend. I've made banana bread hundreds of times, but have never tried zucchini bread, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I found a recipe called "Mom's Zucchini ( Read more... )

I'm going on a field trip with my daughter today with her 1st grade class. It's a different kind of a field trip. We're going to a local stream to collect data about the cleanliness of the water there by collecting and observing water and invertebrate samples. The kids learn so much from this experience, which is a longitudinal study conducted ( Read more... )

My first year doing NaNoWriMo and I just won! 50,134 words in 29 days. Completed despite missing three days of writing due to Thanksgiving and two days of 20th High School reunion immediately following. Of course, reduced hours at word definitely contributed to my success. Next year I hope to succeed while also pulling a 30-hour work week! Any ( Read more... )

For the last 4 days (also known as the first 4 days of NaNoWriMo 2009) I've been going full board, dumping words onto my virtual page like crazy. It's worn me out, but it's felt good, and I liked what I was writing. Today I hit a wall. I had no idea where the story was going and didn't feel I could add to any other part until I figured out how the ( Read more... )

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) began on Nov. 1, and for the first time ever I'm participating. (If you don't know what NaNoWriMo is, go here to check it out: http://www.nanowrimo.org ) I don't want to spend too much time here because I should be writing on my story, but I wanted a ( Read more... )

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook. I love it!

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In order to have continuous sources of veggies, more than one planting is necessary. It seems the best way is to plant every 7 days or so, but I missed the boat on that this year. But, that's ok; this is all new to me and it's an experimental year. In that vein, I decided to throw some more seeds into the squares and see how they develop as the ( Read more... )

Last week my best friend, Kym, came to town to spend a few days. We had a wonderful time at the Strong National Museum of Play, Eastview Mall, and just hanging out at our place. Kym usually visits in winter or very early spring, so she'd never seen our yard in summer. As soon as she got here I took her on a tour of my gardens. She oohed and aahed ( Read more... )