Mother’s Day

Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamaition of 1870
The first North American Mother’s Day was conceptualized with Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation in 1870. Despite having penned The Battle Hymn of the Republic 12 years earlier, Howe had become so distraught by the death and carnage of the Civil War that she called on Mother’s [...]

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Inspiration!

http://www.sabinekrummel.com/index.htm
If Sabine’s vibrant watercolors don’t inspire you, I just don’t know what could!
Enjoy!

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Pleasant Day

This may sound odd but I have not said those words in years, until yesterday.  I have had pleasant times and hours and half hours, but a whole day is rare indeed.  I took my time writing up my blogs in the morning and the boys played gently till I was through.  Then I remembered [...]

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Chicken Hatching Developments

Well, we have successes but we also have a few sad failures.  I won’t go into gorry details but it looks like we are going to lose at least one hatched chick and have had three in process of hatching mysteriously die.
But!  We do have serveral that have hatched and may still hatch.  The black [...]

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Sunday Success!

Sunday I was hoping to actually be able to sit and listen to a sermon from Douglas Taylor our minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Binghamton and have B. in Religious Education class without any incedents, but I was way off base.  I woke to find T. wanting to attend Spirit Play!  I was [...]

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Play date with Piran 5-08

Well, we had a very full day yesterday, but it just wasn’t enough for T.  He wanted more playtime, so after a disappointing playdate cancellation we were fortunate to have found the T.’s dear friend Piran and his father had time to spend at the playground with us.  It was fun and I got to take [...]

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More chicks!

Today we have three more chicks hatched today.  Only one is out of the incubator in the brooder box with the other two chicks.  The two silkies are getting bigger and their pin feathers are already beginning to come in.  The newest chicks are aracuna/buff orfington(sp?) mixes.  One is huge and has legs almost three times [...]

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Spinning

I am addicted to Spinning Fiber into Yarn from my drop spindles!  There! I have said it for the whole world to know.  I started taking interest in fiber art several years ago when my family began moving from conventional ignorant bliss into eyes wide open educated skeptical aware natural holistic waldorf inspired.  A few [...]

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May Day!

My May Day began at 5:ooam as dawn was approaching.  Showering commenced to wake and purify the body for the days events to come.  Tummies grumbling we left the house at 6:30am with the arrival of our dear friend Jacqui.  Her two children and the three of us piled into her vehicle for a rather [...]

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Streams!

T. and Ben played at a local park with a stream.  I probably don’t have to say much else.
They had tons of fun and were very wet shortly after arrival. LOL
We are loving the burst of hot weather.  We know it is short lived so we will take advantage of it while it is still [...]

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