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Cranberry Marsh Tour....(in the comfort of your own home)
How exactly do those little ruby reds get from the cranberry bed to the truck?First the bed has to be flooded. This bed is in the process of being flooded. Like a four-chambered heart, cranberries...
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Suzuki Violin & Piano Recital - #14
First the musicians performed.This was Emily's senior recital - #14Recital #5 for Sam.Then came the party.
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Recycling Water....(it's an important step)
Cranberry Harvest is well under way, which means it's time to start moving water from one bed to another. Our style of marsh is completely reliant on gravity to flow water from one end of the marsh to...
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Today on the Cranberry Marsh
It's cold out there today. And windy, too. And I'm not feeling well, came down with some sort of flu-like bug yesterday. Still recovering today. So our walk was short, but I still want to share a...
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Cranberry Cleaning & Binning Station - Field Trip
Yesterday I had the opportunity to ride along in the dump truck to the cranberry receiving station. Dump trucks are not luxury vehicles. They are loud and the ride feels a bit like jumping on a...
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Cranberry Marsh Tours....(are coming to an end)
Technically speaking, cranberry harvest has come to an end. A couple of truckloads of fruit still need to be hauled in and the trash rakers will still work a few hours and all the specialized harvest...
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Thanksgiving Books
Christmas is everywhere! But let's not forget about Thanksgiving before diving head first into Advent and Christmas planning.One of my favorite homeschool-ish things to do is choose books according to...
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First Snow
We've had a few flakes, but nothing that's really accumulated. Until today! We woke to a couple of inches of wet snow. So after a morning of lessons, laundry, and lunch (warming in the crockpot) we...
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Tis the Season to Shop.....or Not
Shopping, shopping, shopping! This is the time of year for it. Or is it?As I made a Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping list, I was given a gentle reminder that all the gifts in the world don't...
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Advent Week 2 ~ Peace
We ate by candle light for the 2nd time on Sunday evening. It's so very peaceful for me; however, the kids don't feel the same way. Truthfully, they whined a little about having to eat in the dark....
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Deer Season - 2015
Just as practicing our Faith nourishes our soul, hunting, for our family, nourishes our bodies. And it's nearly just as important to the well-being of our family. This year we are so fortunate for...
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Rabbit Recipe
Yesterday, I shared our deer season and mentioned that deer is not the only wild meat we like to eat. Warren and the older boys went for a partridge walk yesterday and came home with a rabbit....
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Art Supplies for the Child Artist
In our homeschool art has always been on the repertoire. *Not because I'm an artist, because I'm not, but because I've always wished I was better at drawing and seeing perspective. I want my kids to...
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How I'm Teaching Joseph to Read and All About Reading Level 1 Review
When I'm researching a new teaching method or curriculum I love getting a glimpse into a real family using the method or curriculum. Especially, when I have questions in regards to Joseph and Down...
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Homemade Musical Instruments.....(on the cheap)
I've been using the Mother Goose Time pre-school curriculum for two years now. It's really a fun program; sometime mid-month FedEx delivers a school bus box filled with 20 days worth of pre-school...
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Our Christmas Gift and Wrapping Tradition...(still going strong)
Having 7 kids in the house makes for a wild, exciting, exhausting, yet fun Christmas Eve. For years we've followed the same tradition of 3 packages to unwrap on Christmas Eve and a stocking Christmas...
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December Happenings
Here's a little peek into our December. Some pictures don't lend themselves to their own post so for those of you interested in what we do other than grow cranberries and homeschool, here you are, a...
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How to Patch Insulated Carhartt Bib Overalls
We're finally getting the snow we've been waiting for and that means the Carhartt bibs were dragged out. Last winter Nick spearheaded a campout which ended up being the coldest couple days of the...
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Wisconsin With Kids ~ Ice Fishing Up North
If you can remember back to the sunny days of summer, I started a series of posts: Wisconsin With Kids. It's been a while since the last addition to that series and since ice fishing and Wisconsin...
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A Weekend With Only Half.....(the family home)
What in the world does one mom, two teenage daughters, and one toddler daughter do for lunch? Mind you, there are NO boys at home waiting on meat and potatoes or pizza. We make Chinese food of...
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