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  • Zurama dressing room

    Zurama dressing room

    While working on cleaning, sorting, cleaning last night, came upon a polaroid, just a few years shy of being 20 years old,of a painting I did of a theater dressing room. Very faded. I brought out the colors a bit. Grainy. Very loosely pictured are Irv Wardlow (left), Lane Whittemore, Ross Miekle (far background) and…

  • Pretend I’m BoingBoing or something

    A few posts ago I was grumbling over people forcing their progeny to make napkin rings out of cardboard toilet paper holders, or at least deluding them into thinking it was a good thing… When instead they could be making finger puppets! Like H.o.p. did this past summer. His own idea. Cut the toilet paper…

  • We like Neo-Kaiju

    H.o.p. fell for the Neo-Kaiju Treebird by artist Kathy Staico-Schorr. We attempted to order it through Wootini which is where we first saw it. Pretty cool website adds to anticipating something good but H.o.p. would have liked Treebird regardless. He also liked a number of other toys but Treebird was the right price. Here’s a…

  • Not like selling your everyday used car

    It fell to Marty’s responsibility to purchase the specialized used van which served his dad for around a year before dying of ALS back in December. Marty got it for his dad here and drove it across the state to the home of his mom and dad. It fell to Marty’s responsibility to sell the…

  • Lengthy post on dead artists, musicians and authors. Kind of. Kind of not.

    This is a post about dead artists and writers, kind of, though it won’t seem to be at first because it’s kind of and kind of not. Walked out of one flu/cold and right into another. At least H.o.p. came down with another one, wham, and this time he felt painfully bad at the beginning.…

  • The defective red hot

    In The platelets rise to the top post I exhibited the results of mixing together red hots, lima beans and lentils in karo syrup, as instructed to do in the R.E.A.L. Science book, something about learning something about blood composition. Our (or my) natural inclination is to let things like this sit a few days…

  • Homeschool activities we will not be doing for St. Patrick's Day

    Another one of those posts where I confess my befuddlement over activities that are purported to be worthwhile enough that people actually do them, and yes I know some things are just supposed to be fun. St. Patrick’s Day. I don’t care. I know I should. Marty’s got a lot of Irish blood and I”ve…

  • The platelets rise to the top

    The other day I reported there were suggested science activities we wouldn’t be doing to supposedly learn more about blood. Like the mix the red hots (1/2 cup red blood cells) and lima beans (5 white blood cells) and lentils (1 tablespoon platelets) in 1 and 1/2 cup karo syrup (plasma) activity. Well, guess what…

  • The atheists not accepted here standard

    I was doing a quick glance through of Georgia QCC standards and came up with the below one which will be interesting to atheists. Quality Core Curriculum Standards Character Education Citizenship (all grades) Strand: Citizenchip 10 Topic: Citizenship Standard: Respect for the creator: our most basic freedoms and rights are not granted to us from…

  • H.o.p.’s review of "The Tortoise and the Hare"

    H.o.p. has this to say about the Center for Puppetry Art’s production of “The Tortoise and the Hare”. It’s about this ship and it wrecked on an island and a bunch of animals came out of the ship, like a fox and a mouse and a tortoise and a rabbit and a crow with cheese…

  • Activities we likely won't be doing that are supposed to help you learn about blood

    What we’re using for science right now. We used to do science with me scouring the web for things to feed H.o.p. And he has his Brain Pop that give nice primers on subjects. H.o.p., amazingly enough, has recently discovered that he likes tests. At least the way mom does them. If you look up…

  • Total homeschool post – almost – well, never mind

    It’s been a while since I’ve checked out homeschool blogging circles but I was in a couple several years ago and eventually dropped out of them as most were indeed homeschooling for religious purposes, and then those that were not tended to be either suburban or nearly rural and very do it yourself kind of…

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