Reading Update

 Still working my through Tactics by Greg Kokul and The Watchmaker's Daughter by Larry Lofton as well as Swiss Family Robinson. All have been difficult reads for me, but for different reasons. Tactics because it's deep material I want to fully understand in order to consistently implement it.

The Story of Alfred the Great by 

     How England became united due to the constant invasion of the Viking Danes. Another Charlotte Mason recommendation.

Once Upon a Summer by Jeanette Oke

    Great fun to reread. Another orthodox author I can relax and enjoy while still be challenged with Biblical content.

Just started Happy Lies: how a movement you (probably) never heard of shaped our self obsessed world.

  Very eye opening with lots of explanation, history,  definitions, and examples. Another deep read though!

Summer in April

Made a "Dandy Lion" 

Saw a cardinal come visit us

 Digging with my digger!

 Had as much fun stacking up the markers together as he did drawing with them. 😂

My House by Miriam Shlein

A delightful book about a boy telling how his house became a home. Out of print and very hard to find. Finally got ahold of a copy from my library state sharing system. This will be so fun to read and reread over the years!

 

Synoptic Gospels Chart

 Of the four Gospels in the Bible, three (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) are chronological and have similar content. The Gospel of John is vastly different in style and organization.

I find this comparison extremely interesting and I love that it's in picture format.

Where's the Driveway??

 So I delivered doordash to this house today and I'm pretty sure it's the same house that I delivered to once before about a year ago when we had a heavy snowfall and there hadn't been much plowing done. I think the street had a small amount of snow plowed but the driveway had not. There's no rhyme nor reason to which side of the driveway someone decides to place their mailbox, and it was impossible to tell when I was making that delivery. So I drove down what was my best guess was the driveway but when I got down to the building I could tell that I was facing the side of the garage not the front and had obviously misjudged where the driveway was! 

So I dropped off the food as per the app instructions and turned around and went right back out the way I came in. I thought that was better than making a second set of tracks. I wish I could have taken a picture of the garage today to show how the driveway actually goes up but I didn't want to conspicuously be taking pictures of someone's random house.

The ground was definitely frozen and once the snow melted or there was more snowfall, no one could have seen where I had driven. I never had any complaints, but it was something I'll long remember!

4-H Honor Club Donut Social

 

All those clubs which have achieved a balance of goals across the four Hs -- Head   Heart   Hands  Health. Meeting attendance, project completion, community service projects, public speaking activities, serving as officer, committee work, and leadership development are all samples of points achieved for the club to attain this title each year.