Tag: homeschool
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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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Fury of the artist
H.o.p. is furious at me. He believes I lost a drawing of his. I probably did. I probably threw it away. He draws ten thousand pictures a day and it’s impossible to keep them all, which he would do if he could. We haven’t the room so I sort them out occasionally and throw away…
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Chocolate fountain only on some Sundays
Another Boingboing pointer because it is about chocolate and because the new Fernbank exhibit is on chocolate which is an exhibit making a nationwide tour. I love chocolate but am no connoisseur, just like I love coffee but am no connoisseur, and one it comes down to it am fine with a really oily french…
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H.o.p. instructs me on art and I give just a tad return instruction
Every little budding artist is eventually struck by realism, at least for a period of time. H.o.p. tonight was looking at a drawing of two Egyptian women embracing, an older and a younger woman, in a story of his, and he was struck by the realism of the illustration. He decided to tell me about…
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H.o.p. on H2O
So I was on the phone telling Marty to pick up water on the way home. Me: We need water. H.o.p.: We need H2O. Me (being dyslexic): We need HT0. H.o.p. No, we need H2O. I’ll tell you what H2O means. It means there’s one H and 2 oxygens and when they stick together they…
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The drone bee that wasn't kicked out in the cold
H.o.p. was mortified when he learned that drone bees are kicked out of the hive to die. In tonight’s story-play-game he is a drone bee who has made himself useful by making a map of the hive (so bees can find their way to the nursery etc.) and protecting the hive from intruders. He is…
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Bigger, smaller –"Alice in Wonderland" science
Ah, the travails and uncertainties of homeschooling. This chapter I’m naming “Alice in Wonderland” science. We’re listening to “Carmina Burana” this morning, an old favorite of H.o.p.’s, because it was used in a video at a website on the “4th Revolt”, which I came across via Pen Elayne. The idea over at the 4th Revolt…
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Displaying a few musician genes
“That song is done with an accordion, isn’t it? And a piano. That’s really cool. I didn’t know that a piano could make it sound like something was about to happen in the darkness or in the big city. They had an accordion in the movie called Madeline. And that’s Russian music, isn’t it.” He…
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Torture and Human Rights Abuses – we gotta stop thinking of ourselves as the good guys gone bad because if the bad sleep well then America has had more than its fair share of many well-rested nights
Over at Nightbird’s Fountain the other day was made this post linking to the very pink Torture Tree. Someone remarked in the comments area since when did we represent torture and human rights abuses and we needed to stand for freedom again. As I noted in response in the comments area, I always feel like…
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Young Actress with Roses (digital painting)
Young Actress with Roses 14 by 28 inches digital painting 2005 Our power went off last night. Off and on. Off and on. Off and on. We were all just getting to sleep and I heard this wild distant sound and the power went off. Then the power came back on. Then there was again…
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The day before the day when many will be dozing on turkey
Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving. If you look back a couple of posts you’ll see the picture of a dead turkey and a comment on Edward Curtis. That’s my sideswipe version of a Thanksgiving commentary, I guess. But I hope everyone who drops by and reads this post has a good holiday weekend. Right now I’m deep in…
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Museums and ants
At the Museum of Natural History Digital painting (with photo by artist as reference) 25.09 high by 22.56 inches wide 2005 Lightbox enlargement Detail.