Cayatano came over yesterday to work on the yard. He finished digging the trench under the sidewalk to bury the drain pipe and will bore a hole into the curb so the water can get out the next time he comes with the right tool. He also put some seed on the lawn where there are some holes and put a frame around the wet area by the faucet behind the house where we have concrete pads and filled it with rock between the pads. When we have a little more money, we need to have him come back again to clean the new patio with acid and put on a varnish to make it shiny, bore the hole in the curb, put in a fence in the back yard, and put in some trees around the property.

Yesterday, there was so much stuff going on, the kids did not really have a chance to get all of their homework done. Today will be a little bit of a “make-up” day. I am going to start backing off on their work load a little so they are not so stressed about getting it all done. They are doing super on the math and it looks like the Easy Grammar program is going to work very well.

Lorena starts her intermediate algebra class today at the Corvallis Linn-Benton Community College facility. She will drop the kids off at my work a little before 4:00 this afternoon so she can get to class between 4:00 and 6:00. I will take the kids home with me and have them to myself on Tuesdays and Thursdays through the end of fall term. We are going to cancel the art class for the kids in Corvallis because we are so busy now, we really do not want to be adding a whole new place to go. We have a good art program and there are some opportunities for art within the home school community so we will not really be missing anything. The atmosphere at that art center did not look so healthy for our kids anyway.