Tag: homeschool
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This Morning…
Me, I’m just waiting for the water for my coffee to heat up. Waiting for Marty to get home from the laundry. Waiting for H.o.p. to get going (he drug a pile of books to bed with him and read late into the night). In the meanwhile I clean the bathroom which is never in…
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H.o.p. and the Sphinx, 2007 Dec, MMoA
H.o.p. and the Sphinx, 2007 Dec, MMoA View On White Another version, before I photoshopped out a woman. But I rather like this one as well. View On White
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This is taking forever
Cactus and Palms and Pink Condo, Arizona View Larger On White
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THE FACE OF TOMORROW'S ART, TODAY
Despite my not liking The Nutcracker, I made it a point last week to sit with H.o.p. each night for Ovation’s “Battle of the Nutcrackers”. Well, except for the first night. Missed that one. My brain still hurts. To get me back it keeps repeating several bar snippets of Nutcracker music. * * * *…
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AN ASSESSMENT
H.o.p.: Ancient history is brutal. Me: So’s modern history.
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NOT THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
A cousin H.o.p.’s age is now, after being a reluctant reader, making his way through the encyclopedia. If H.o.p. was making his way through the encyclopedia, I’d be proud of him too. He’s not. H.o.p. has instead discovered the joys of the comics and graphic novels alley of the second hand bookstore. I mentioned comics…
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Ant art installation on futile industry not showing much industry
“Fortunate Discoveries by Accident” described her ants as dividing themselves into morticians, executives and construction workers. Her ants, like those blogged about at Gearworks, were fully fledged up to fun not long after their arrival. H.o.p.’s ants are nearly all executives, running around not doing much other than discussing discussing, with several racing over to…
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SPELLING LESSON
Marty’s the one doing H.o.p.’s spelling lesson tonight. So, I’m sitting here reading and I hear behind me: Marty: Union. Union. He joined a labor union to try to get better pay for all workers. H.o.p.: No, no. How about instead, “The Nature Team is a union of freedom to escape the atomic bomb”. I…
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I keep telling myself that at some point I will derive benefit from (fill in the blank)
First Order of Business ISP. We are in the process of switching. Earthlink has either already shut down our DSL or it’s just down. I’m on dial-up and just letting you know, FRIENZ AND RELATIVEZ, that ANY OF OUR OLD MINDSPRING EMAIL ACCOUNTS ARE DEFUNCT. Between the devil and the deep blue sea, we have…
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The Results
This post is just between me and the few people who visit here so don’t be surprised if I move it over to “private” and thus take it down after it’s been up a couple of days. Got H.o.p.’s standardized scores back. He did basically what I expected him to do.
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A Dome Full of Stars
Fernbank Planetarium, 2007 Aug 16 Light box enlargement It was a nearly empty house at the Fernbank planetarium last night. Us plus 3 other individuals made 6. Marty reminded me of a story once told by a friend of ours. When they moved to Atlanta, many years ago, before the Braves became hot, they called…
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Glamour
An example of what you can do when you’re homeschooling and talking about crystals. Having done the crystal experiment, we watched a short video on minerals. The subject of diamonds was brought up. Beautiful diamonds. Which have a troubled history. I thought it unbalanced just to see nice pictures of African diamond mines where no…