One of Audrey’s November Monarchs.
Author: Joyce
Dinner Spices
Getting the spices ready for dinner.
Playing
The kids enjoyed playing with the neighbors today.
I have been wanting to play with composites and the kids helped me with this idea. It is not great, but it is a fun start.
Five Medals 2017 part 2
Five Medals is a fun way to converse with many different people. It is also a great place to practice different photography styles. I tried some candid “street shots”, just taking pictures of whatever caught my eye. I also interacted with people more before taking pictures. While I enjoyed talking and learning a lot of new stories, I often forgot to take the pictures after! Oh well, I guess I still have a lot to learn.
If you are interested in going next year, the tentative dates are October 20-21!
Five Medals 2017 (Part 1)
The weather was perfect for this year’s Gathering at Five Medals. I appreciated the time each person took to tell their story of life in the Midwest between the 1660s and the early 1800s.
I talked with a spinner who explained what she was doing and said she loves the chance to relax and spin while her children did chores or read out loud. I learned about caning chairs. We were instructed on how to make birch wood homes and how easy they were to pack up and move. My favorite though was a little boy who told Megan, “We just slept here all night, we are not really Indians”.
Scarecrows!
This morning we had fun making scarecrows.
Homework
Knowing that we would be going to Five Medals (a history reenactment) this weekend, Mark asked me to take some pictures of gun mechanisms. This one is from a blunderbuss.
And, in Mark style, the outline.
Bike Ride
After a crazy yesterday, I decided the kids needed a break. So we ran to the store and then took a bike ride at Oxbow. It was a beautiful day to be out!
Rainbow
It has been raining all day today. Now is the time to start looking for rainbows!
(This is over Aunt Francis’ and Uncle Lawrence’s house in Colorado.)
Homecoming
This last weekend we drove down to see Mark and enjoy Cedarville’s Homecoming.
All the freshmen engineers had a cardboard boat project. They were to design a boat and build it using provided cardboard and tape. Their grade would be determined, in part, if they made it across the lake or not.
Mark’s team worked hard. Their boat was not the fastest, but it made it across the lake with very little damage.
A few teams ended up taking a cool swim to the finish line.
Mark was disappointed that his team did not place high enough to be in the water fight after the race. However, he was excited when his professor saw his boat, liked the design, and asked if he could put it on display in the engineering building for the next year.
Mark had homework, but joined us as often as he could over the weekend. We enjoyed a few concerts, watched a movie outside, went to a parade –collected lots of candy– and just spent time together.
It was great to see Mark and meet some of his friends. He enjoys school and the opportunities to learn a lot!