from all the mamas and their offspring at Farm School!
Callie the calico cat and some of her kittens,
Laura’s 4H cow-calf pair, Bunny and Benny,
Oreo the Speckle Park calf,
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Today is Daniel’s birthday and it’s a fine sunny Spring day. The frogs are singing, the birds are twittering and making nests, and the gophers are poking out of their holes.
One of Daniel’s presents this morning was the Marty Robbins CD Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959) which we listened to with breakfast (pancakes, bacon, [...]
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After three nutty busy days at the beginning of the week (library board committee meeting, semiannual teeth cleaning and checkup, and music lessons, and that was without two meetings I couldn’t squeeze in), Daniel and I got sick. For me that was aside from the three consecutive days of headaches — first migraine, next [...]
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Many happy returns to Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).
Dawn at By Sun and By Candlelight has a lovely list of Lincoln links.
Big bicentennial bashes are underway for Lincoln, too. Here’s the link for the Lincoln Bicentennial, 1809-2009: Live the Legacy. The “Learning about Lincoln” section, under the “Teachers” category, [...]
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Twelfth Night in Historic Camden County
Illustration from The Granger Collection, New York
And it’s always nice to have a holiday excuse to post one of Anna’s recipes, this one for Twelfth Night Cake
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Yesterday we celebrated Davy’s seventh birthday and Thanksgiving. He was delighted to have turkey with all the trimmings, especially cranberry sauce, for his birthday meal, and I was happy to have a leisurely day to prepare, and a leisurely dinnertime to enjoy, our harvest feast, which included all of the usual suspects along with homemade [...]
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A very happy Father’s and Grandpapa’s Day to my father, and a happy Father’s Day to Tom, with whom I’m also celebrating 13 lucky years of wedded bliss. He and the kids — who made us a fabulous breakfast of homemade pancakes and bacon with whipped cream and fresh pineapple — went out this morning [...]
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