Mother’s Day photo contest

Crissy at Soliloquy is hosting a Mother’s Day photo contest:
In honor of my late grandmother, Grace, and my mother, Cindy, I am hosting a Mother’s Day photo contest. I am looking for your favorite photograph of a grandmother or a mother and her children.
The deadline is May 7th, and more details are here and here.  [...]

Mud pies and bibliobituaries

One of our favorite books, especially for Spring, is Mud Pies and Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Dolls by Marjorie Winslow, illustrated by Erik Blegvad, whose Great Hamster Hunt, also out-of-print, is still on my shelves.
So I was delighted to see it receive a lengthy “salute” from independent bookseller Alison Morris on her blog, Shelftalker. [...]

A daily gift for National Poetry Month

Sherry at Semicolon is offering a post a day for National Poetry Month.  Here’s the initial post, and you can find the others by searching the blog (under the “Picture Book Preschool” block on the right) for the term “NPM”.  From Sherry’s first post,
April is National Poetry Month, and I intend to give you a [...]

Light and sporadic blogging ahead

Not only do we have the big music/speech arts festival coming next week, with lots of last-minute rehearsing, fine tuning, and costume assembling, but this morning at 11 my husband gave me a whopping 20 minutes’ notice that the bedroom remodel was about to commence. This after our 40 roosters had been dspatched to [...]

Spreading the news

Bella Dia has an announcement:
I have a new blog called The Crafty Crow! I have seen so many great kids crafts in blogland that I wanted a blog to keep them all in one place with a bit of organization thrown in. I would love it if you would check it out and [...]

Saluting Canadian authors

Colleen Mondor at Chasing Ray has word today that
the group who organized the One Shot World Tour stop in Australia last August has decided to salute Canadian authors on March 26th. If anyone wants to participate you are more than welcome - this is 100% NOT a YA [Young Adult books] only event, so [...]

Learning in the Great Outdoors

Terrell at Alone on a Limb is celebrating his 61st birthday with the 10th edition of the Learning in the Great Outdoors carnival, marked by 62 terrific posts (one for each year and one to grow on).
Many thanks, Terrell, for hosting such a splending carnival and many happy returns!
By the way, the Great Outdoors home [...]

I forgot…

to mention in my last post just below that Mrs. G. at Derfwad Manor mentioned  the other day that…
“The second March Book Give-Away will be homeschooling books!”
So consider yourself notified and stay tuned to Derfwad Manor.

Disagreeably agreeable

The very funny, kind, and generous Mrs. G. at Derfwad Manor earlier this week had a draw for a book giveaway (heck, it was a books giveaway, and international to boot), and with some misgivings I tossed my name in the hat for The Dictionary Of Disagreeable English: A Curmudgeon’s Compendium of Excruciatingly Correct Grammar [...]

Links

The February Carnival of Children’s Literature is up, and Anastasia Suen at Picture Book of the Day is hosting.
I missed last week’s Poetry Friday, which was hosted by Kelly Fineman at Writing and Ruminating.
The February edition of the online children’s literature monthly, The Edge of the Forest, is up, and includes reviews as well as [...]

Surfacing, briefly

It’s been a busy week or so around here, which is why blogging has been sparse.  I even missed Poetry Friday.  But the upstairs bathroom is done (I’ll post a photo of the grouted palm tree, which is lovely), and Tom has been getting ready to start the new windows project in the master bedroom, [...]

Biography

Thanks to our local CBC radio station, which has a weekly feature on new and noteworthy podcasts, I learned about the website for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which covers Great Britain; I think Charlotte Mason, were she around today, might find it a wonderful supplement to H.E. Marshall’s Our Island Story. Yet [...]

Funny, you don’t look a day over 198

(I’ve moved this up for the big day, so no, you’re not seeing double)
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
Charles Darwin

A very happy 199th birthday, and a [...]

Light housekeeping

Silvia at Po Moyemu is hosting the February edition of Living in the Great Outdoors carnival.
I’m late with news about the January edition of the Carnival of Children’s Literature, “The Book Awards Edition”, which was hosted by Wizards Wireless.  Stay tuned later this month, since Anastasia Suen is hosting “the leap into books” edition on [...]

Beautiful books

I just discovered Book By Its Cover, from Julia Rothman, an illustrator and pattern designer in Brooklyn. She writes that she started the blog because
I wanted to share all the nice books I regularly notice and have collected over the years. Please email me if you have any suggestions or books you want to [...]

Now this warms my heart, if not my feet

It’s still cold here, so cold the mercury is in hiding

(of course, you can run but you can’t hide with the newfangled digital technology)

but the good news is the snow has stopped falling and the wind has quit blowing, so it could be worse.
Worse as in as bad as it was on Monday, in fact, [...]

Basic concepts in science

John Wilkins at Evolving Thoughts, part of the ScienceBlogs group, is putting together a handy dandy list of blog posts on basic science concepts, including mathematics, philosophy, logic, and computer science. You can suggest posts, too. Stay tuned for the possibility of a dedicated wiki or blog.
Via GeekDad

New home

Welcome to Farm School’s new home.
I’ve long been looking for a more legible typeface and clearer, attractive theme, plus the chance for a more customized banner (the photo above is from my vegetable garden last year) and was never entirely satisfied with what was available at Blogger. I also have categories now with a [...]

Time for delurking

Kris Bordessa, who blogs at Paradise Found, home schools, and writes nifty nonfiction for kids, says it’s Delurking Week so I believe her. Having made so many invisible friends through this blog, and from leaving comments at others’ blogs, I like the idea of meeting, and getting to know, new readers. Now’s your [...]

The Learning in the Great Outdoors Carnival is up

The New Year’s edition of the Learning in the Great Outdoors Carnival is up, hosted by Terrell at Alone on a Limb. Terrell writes,
Learning in the Great Outdoors is intended as a trading center for those who use, or want to use, the environment as an integrating context for learning. If you are a teacher, [...]