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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The great outdoors, and a carnival

I had a very nice note this morning from teacher Terrell Shaw, to let me know that he has put some original poetry to my photograph of a robin’s egg. As I replied to him, the kids got quite a kick out of seeing my photo accompanied by his poem; and in the midst [...]

Latest edition of the Carnival of Children’s Lliterature is up

Mary Lee and Franki have the June edition of the Carnival of Children’s Literature ready at their blog, A Year of Reading. Good news, indeed!

Celebrate late Spring with a Country Fair!

The Country Fair of homeschooling is open again, so grab a lemonade or a cotton candy and meander through the barns or past the pie-eating contest…
Thanks, Doc, for taking the time to put it all together!

This way to the egress

PZ Myers has the creation museum carnival up and running. It looks like a terrific round-up of articles, which I look forward to reading the rest of the week post-4H, and I’m pleased that my little entry (the previous post) could be a part of it. Many thanks to Dr. Myers for the rounding up, [...]

I typed this all by myself with my opposable thumbs

I shouldn’t even be here posting, because we’re getting ready for the big 4H Beef Club weekend — achievement day, interclub show, and sale. (No, Laura doesn’t have to sell her heifer calf; only the steers get sold, heading straight to their doom and little wrapped packages. One reason an older friend of hers and [...]

It must be Spring…

because it’s Carnival and fair time! In chronological order,

Susan has the May “Fiesta in Texas” edition of the Carnival of Children’s Literature over at Chicken Spaghetti. Looks very hot and spicy!

Today Melissa Wiley is hosting this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling: Enthusiasm Abounds at her blog, The Lilting House. I haven’t participated in the [...]

Carnival of Children’s Literature and Edge of the Forest

Oops, I almost forgot to write about two important things, so I hope Kelly will forgive me. And Kelly, I did try to comment on your computer woes but Blogger won’t let me in for some reason; after my own laptop’s recent unauthorized encounter with a beverage, I can definitely sympathize.
The latest edition of The [...]

Halloween carnival time

The spooky Halloween edition of the Carnival of Children’s Literature is up and running at Scholar’s Blog. Michele, who did a wonderful job, welcomes “ghosts and ghouls, fiends and monsters (and fellow Bloggers)”.