Its going to be a soggy week. Its not even a good rain either. Its cold and there's too much of it. We're stocked up on library books and movies to get us through. DS10 found the book, 300 Frogs, a visual reference to frogs and toads from around the world. His favorite is the European tree frog. I also checked out Amphibians Of Wisconsin hoping he'd find a local favorite to hunt for, once weather allows us. Maybe we'll have to foster tadpoles again this year.
DS13 is looking over a book on small engine repair. I've told him the old lawn mower from Grandpa we can't get started is fair game. He's also expressed interest in taking apart our combination lock. Why not?
I was grateful I found Bite at the library for DH. For Christmas I had given him the Sookie Stackhouse series, only knowing them from True Blood on HBO. I didn't know that halfway through the series, you were expected to have read Bite to be able to understand what is going on. He's ticked off at the author for this stunt, but I think he'll keep reading them. I've only made it through the first novel and quickly discovered how different they are from the HBO series. I've promised to catch up to DH, but I struggle with reading fiction when there seems to be so much to learn from reading non-fiction books.
I'm still dreaming my way through garden books and catalogs. I'm researching the idea of building tee pees to grow my butternut squash on. (My neighbors are going to hate me!) I'm torn between growing a veggie patch or flower garden. I may just do both.
I think I had my husband scared. He kept telling me I looked really good, like I was "glowing". Then I began waking up at 4:30am with an urge to clean the kitchen because I smelled something funky. It was just crazy hormones, not true nesting. My bloodhound nose is so developed because I'm going deaf and without my glasses, I'm blind. My nose is the only thing working well these days!
This is a great week to spring clean, because being outside is no fun. I'm picking off little tasks, one by one, because if I think about everything that should be cleaned, its overwhelming. I wonder how much it would cost to have a super cleaning crew come in for one day and power clean my house? Probably more than I'd be willing to pay. Plus I'm going to need the money for my blueberry bushes!!
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You know, I really believe it would be worth it to pay someone to do the heavy spring cleaning! Think of it this way - we would be helping the economy and keeping a few people employed!! That's a good thing, right?! Same for the outside, where the oak leaves and pollen are just overwhelming right now.
I love that your boys are so inquisitive! You are definitely on the right track with your unschooling!!
Ughhh I've gotta start spring cleaning. Might be easier to move. lol
We spring cleaned some here. We also went to the library for books and movies.
Building tee pees for your squash sounds like a great unschooling project. We are going to container garden since we still rent.
Now when everyone starts talking about gardening again I feel rather sad that I can't do it. We live in an apartment house and there's no garden. We could do at the summer cottage but then it should be taken more often than once a week or once in two weeks... this is one of the negative parts of living in an apartment house! Thee, I never thought there would be some. Placing some plants and flowers on the balcony is what we've gone for ometimes but it's rather tricky because silly G doesn't let them grow in peace, lol!
I'm sorry to hear you've had a bad weather. I read there are some first storms of spring coming up too. I hope they won't get too bad over there. Here the weather has been rather ideal for the past week. It's been sunny and even if we got some more snow AGAIN on Monday night this week it's been so fresh and light. And there's no snow in the city area, so it's just here where I live because there's so little traffic and lots of nature.
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