Egypt

Egypt makes for great crafts - and school, too, of course.
We finished the crook & flail a couple weeks ago, but I finally got a picture:

What's more, I posted it & wrote a little text. I haven't been keeping up w/ all I want to, but here's some progress. We have also made a pyramid:
And yesterday's project was a hieroglyphic scroll. I'll get a picture of that when we make our cuneiform tablet.
The Mummy is coming up fast. I can't wait.
How do you feel about Egypt, Des?

Putting the yard to bed

Today was remarkable in the co-incidence of a warmish day & me feeling well enough to get things done.
After the grocery & lunch it was finally time to go outside. I got a bunch of stuff done, like digging up the gladiola bulbs, planting the rooted climbing rose cuttings that have been on the porch all summer & fall, collecting the seeds from the giant tom thumb impatiens, carting away the pile of pine needles I raked up a month ago, putting all the potted plants and the trough in on the porch, and most importantly pulling up the few remaining plants & turning over the garden soil & adding some more lime. I am so excited to have gotten all of this done. I feel like I haven't done anything in the yard since the start of August. It felt good to be out there. The kids also had a great time - they harvested worms from the turned soil. Max dug a really deep hole for them to live in. Dessa took a great picture of me.


I took a picture of a worm.

A belated Halloween picture

Things seem so busy when I'm under the weather. The kids had a good time trick or treating - all the way around the block! We had a last hurrah of candy after lunch today, then I put the remainder in a bowl (wonder who'll eat that?) so I could put the pumpkin buckets & the rest of the Halloween stuff away.