Overnight, practically, our 10 broccoli plants have been mowed down. We suspect the cutworm. It’s a caterpillar that munches on tender young plants in such a way that makes them look beheaded. Sam and I are devastated. This morning we put cardboard collars around the three remaining plants who aren’t completed severed. …

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Today was the final day of the Lakes, Ponds and Rivers class at the Green Adventure Project. The kids had two challenges today: 1) make a water filter out of ordinary household materials and filter dirty pond water, and 2) construct a dam in the stream. Sam’s favorite thing about the class was that the teachers let the …

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Sam spent all afternoon working on a secret birthday present for Susie. Shhhhh….

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Baby goats are unbelievably cute, kind of like puppies with hooves.

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Because I’m crazy. Last year, after Sam’s mystery theme birthday party, I swore up and down that NEXT year we would do something simple–like go to the park. This year, we are going to the park (yay, follow-through!) but then Sam says, “I want us to play fun games… like tag and hide and seek.” “OK!” I say. “We can do …

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No Minotaurs were spotted, thankfully.

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At first I thought, oh how cute, he’s going to hang onto the sunflower and gobble up the seeds. And then he snapped the whole flower head off and scurried away! I’m not going to feel so bad now when the neighborhood cats chase squirrels up our trees.

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At homeschool park day this afternoon.

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