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Yearly Archives: 2006
The House of Sixty Fathers
We finished another one of those awesome books from Christian’s Sonlight homeschool curriculum last night. It was the award winning The House of Sixty Fathers written by Meindert DeJong and Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. It was a Newbery Honor book in 1957. We … Continue reading
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Homeschool economics education
I believe economics education is very important, but have had a struggle trying to figure out how to teach it. I think I have finally come up with a plan to get us started. We have been covering the basic issues all … Continue reading
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Christmas 2006 and thoughts on Mark 16
We have enjoyed our Christmas very much. Christian got a rock polisher and some memory for his Palm Zire 31 so he could do more stuff with it like use it as an MP3 player and play more games. Kelly got an … Continue reading
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It is hard going to work on the last day before Christmas vacation
We are very happy that Christmas has finally arrived. I will have four days off and do not plan to do anything other than hang out with the family. Last night Jay and Karen Nelson stopped by to say hello and greet … Continue reading
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School is out for Christmas break
Today is the last day of homeschool until the New Year. We are now three weeks ahead of the local government schools. They are scheduled for only 170 days this year while we are scheduled for an additional two weeks or 180 … Continue reading
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Lauro and Conchita are here and Christian’s latest video
Grandpa Lauro and Grandma Conchita made it to Oregon late last night. Lorena and Grandpa Milo went to pick them up at the airport. It will be great to have them here for awhile. They got in so late that I am sure … Continue reading
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Sometimes I forget
There is no homeschool today. Lorena and the kids are running up to Portland today. Lorena is going to go out shopping on her own while Kelly and Christian are going to go shopping with Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah. This evening, they … Continue reading
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Getting close to Christmas
It feels like we have finally arrived at the Christmas season now. It is getting cold, the kids are getting out of school, the decorations are going up, and there is Christmas music everywhere. It is especially good this year because Grandpa … Continue reading
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No electricity
We had a power outage last night. It started at about 8:30 and went until about 4:30 this morning. When the lights went out, we were all sitting in the bonus room. Christian and I were at the computers while Lorena and Kelly … Continue reading
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Back in Oregon
I am back in Oregon with the family and should be able to start posting in earnest again on Monday.
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Going home to a fruit fly free house
I am still marveling at Christian’s experiment. What a cool, cool thing to think of doing. I fly home tonight and will try to take up regular posting tomorrow morning.
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The Scientific Method
I used the scientific method along with productivity today when I caught Fruit Flies in two separate traps. As it turned out, the fruit flied discovered the half-banana that Mom tried eating 3 years ago and decided to invade it … Continue reading
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Uncle Ed
My uncle, Ed, died last night. He was a great guy, always friendly and helpful to us kids. The things I remember about him was that he loved his job as a sawyer at the Weyerhauser sawmill across the river from his … Continue reading
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Interesting work
I am still down here in California. I worked through the weekend and got a lot of stuff done that I thought would take me most of the week. I am still hoping to fly home on Wednesday if nothing comes up. The … Continue reading
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Travelling in California
I found out Thursday afternoon that I might have to travel to our Livermore, California office for the weekend to work. They are shutting that office down, so I am now down here finishing up a project that will be … Continue reading
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Starting homeschool in the morning
I get early enough in the morning to go to work that I almost never get to see the kids start their day. The most I get is a walk in their room to give them a kiss and tell them … Continue reading
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My yoke is easy
Last night in our gospel meeting, our minister spoke about being in the yoke with Jesus. The scripture he read was Matthew 11:28-30. The salient part is in verse 30. ”For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” His theme was that … Continue reading
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Blogging on life, homeschool, programming, wrting, and investing
I have been evaluating what we do here on this blog to come up with some additional blog topics. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know by posting a comment. I would be happy to do some research, especially on … Continue reading
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