I’m taking a discussion course through my church, designed by the Northwest Earth Institute, and titled “Healthy Children – Healthy Planet”. The course pulls together readings from a variety of sources, and we get together once a week for two hours to talk about it. It’s a very nice way to discuss a very specific [...]
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I saw a little segment on the Today Show this week that I’ve been meaning to write about, but of course I’m terribly busy now and don’t get on the computer as much as I’d like. That’s my excuse for tardiness – I hope you’ll accept it!
But anyway, the teaser for this segment was “how you can [...]
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The last stop on our summer vacation was Craters of the Moon National Monument. It was a fun experience for Carbon to learn about lava, with many different types of volcanic rocks and some lava tunnels and caves to climb in. I just got the film developed – summer and sunshine already seems so long [...]
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I’m co-teaching the preschool Sunday school class at my church, and yesterday was the first day of that. I and my co-teacher are taking turns, and she was going to go first. Because of that, I didn’t spend a bunch of time last week on prep – I looked at it, but I didn’t have [...]
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My husband has been trying for months to get our baby daughter to say “Daddy”. She recently said “mama” for the first time, and he was even more interested in getting her to say “daddy”. He tells her “say daddy” all the time, over and over and over again.
I’m usually the one that feeds her, [...]
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It looks like we’re celebrating International Day around here, because the house is decorated with flags from all over the world. In actuality, I just had my birthday party last weekend. Today, my sister complained that I made my party into more homework. Really, it was just a lot of fun. The invitations I sent [...]
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I’ve just read two books that are perfect for bird watchers or wanna-be’s:
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik.
In 1998, three men attempted to see more birds in one year than any other North American birdwatcher. In the process, they traveled back and forth across the continent, and tromped through garbage dumps, [...]
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We’ve recently observed a large jay in our neighborhood, and it looks just like a grey-breasted, or Mexican, jay. It’s quite large, with a blue head, wings, and tail, and grey/white underparts and a grey back. It has that jay song, and it is pretty bold. However, there shouldn’t be any grey-breasted jays this far [...]
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Here’s one of my latest projects. I got this old dresser from my great uncle, and I guess it was originally from my great great grandparents’ farm. It’s been through a lot, and many people might just throw it away. I didn’t take a before picture, but it had been painted a yellow/green color, had [...]
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On our trip, we stopped at The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. They have some really nice dinosaur fossils, but Carbon seemed to find them too abstract and unreal. He liked the big T Rex out front, from a distance. Up close for a photo op, he started to [...]
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