Last week was a busy book work type week, and this week was just so different. The weather has been lovely so we worked with it. :) Oh indeedy. The lad needed to use his muscles and it was good. :)
We are in process of getting rid of the old pond/garden area. It will take some time to get it all down, but you see the missing stones? What? You can't see them? That's good. Cause you see they are now over here:
You see putting in a wall will make it easier to know where the lawn ends and where the garden begins. Makes it easier to weed and water and mind the correct plants. Our plans are to extend the bricks around all our bushes and trees so as to make it easier all round for everyone to mow lawns and help with the weeding. :)
Our "burn the nasty weeds after they dry" pile continues to grow. It's actually getting large enough I'm seriously considering just bundling it up and taking it all to the dump Then it's all gone once and for all. The dump will take it free of charge as well.
My son's real life experiment of see how the water runs to keep it from flowing into the pond experiment worked well. I had to offer a bit of help with it to get him going and watching where the water was going, but overall...looks better to have the patio clean after we moved the huge pile of dirt from digging out the new pond.
Ah.. my lovely hay.. all ready for my bunnies and piggies to munch on over the winter. Think they will be pleased??? Smells absolutely wonderful too. :) The lad worked hard helping to man-handled these bales. Hubby helped me bring them into the backyard and that was good. But stacking them... that was all me and the lad. :) Good thing I grew up on a farm eh?
The shed is in much better shape too can't you tell? Organized, tidy, and workable. We shouldn't have a lot of a debris floating around the yard this winter by the time I'm all done here. :) i do need to find room for one emergency rabbit cage in here yet, still not sure where to put it but God will help me sort it out in my brain....
Anyways, that's a wrap up of our homeschooling week. Lots of hard work and thinking, and inbetween it all the lad.. did a smattering of math (on the computer and at the market), he did a bit of science (gardening, snake catching/feeding, frog catching, pond watching (we can see our fish swim), and standard deviants on the computer, we did our normal amounts of reading and did a lot of just on hands learning this week. It's good to have an excellent helper in a nine year old. Good learning and good work.
Anyways, that's a wrap up of our homeschooling week. Lots of hard work and thinking, and inbetween it all the lad.. did a smattering of math (on the computer and at the market), he did a bit of science (gardening, snake catching/feeding, frog catching, pond watching (we can see our fish swim), and standard deviants on the computer, we did our normal amounts of reading and did a lot of just on hands learning this week. It's good to have an excellent helper in a nine year old. Good learning and good work.
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