Halloween on the prairie

About Farm School

We're a Canadian family of five, farming and home schooling. I'm nowhere near as regular a blogger as I used to be, and tend not to blog as much about our home schooling efforts as I used to.

"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
James T. Adams

Family, books, food, organic farming, classical home education, books, gardening, journeys, music, books, thoughts, movies, and books.

Davy is in seventh grade, Daniel in eighth grade, and Laura in tenth grade

Email: farmschool at hmsinet dot com

Notable Quotables

"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead."
Clarence Day

"Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing."
Cicero

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
Sir Francis Bacon, "Essays"

"The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning."
Gilbert Highet, "The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning"

"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
Walter Wriston

"I'd like to give you a piece of my mind."
"Oh, I couldn't take the last piece."
Ginger Rogers to Frances Mercer in "Vivacious Lady" (1938)

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
Booker T. Washington

"Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."
Attributed to Groucho Marx in "The Groucho Letters" by Arthur Sheekman

"If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, we feel all our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'."
Jean Hagen as "Lina Lamont" in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)

Halloween on the prairie

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Becky

What a wonderful Halloween — on a Friday, fairly mild, and with a bit of daylight to boot. What more could you ask for, besides M&Ms in the loot bags. I had to content myself with filching a couple of KitKat bars. The only hitch for me was Daniel’s Darth Maul makeup, which was more challenging than I would have hoped for a Halloween costume. I definitely have to get the Star Wars DVD from the library for the kids; what little they know of Star Wars they know from the Lego catalogue.

Laura is wearing an old traditional Croatian embroidered linen outfit (blouse, skirt, apron) my grandmother brought back from Yugoslavia, and which I wore at least one Halloween. It was too large for Laura last year, and the top will probably be too small next Halloween, so this was the year.

Goofing around with the dog before getting dressed (first two photos by Laura),

My Hollywood makeup job (note the removable parka hood Daniel pinned to his cape),

A Croatian Star Wars battle ballet (I think),

The kids decided to carve three of our little sugar pie pumpkins, and some of the mini gourd pumpkins from the store,