Mama Hen

Table Project

12:42 PM, Friday, November 21, 2008 .. Posted in On the Farm .. 1 comments .. Link

When we moved to our current home, we bought a dining room set second hand. It was very solid, and well built, but needed refinishing. The table had several marks and scratches on the top, and had been chewed on by a dog on the bottom.

So I decided to get started...thankfully we have a double door to the back porch and were able to move the table outside to sand....

JR helping sand... JD helped as well, but I didn't have the camera handy when he did...

Almost done sanding...

And here it is.....it is still wet, but it is looking so much better! You can see it "stretched" and one of the leaves sitting in it. I still have to do the other leaf and the benches and chairs, but those will have to wait until spring. It is too cold to work outside anymore, and the stain doesn't like to dry well when it is cold. We are pleased with the results.

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Hunting, hunting

07:08 PM, Tuesday, November 11, 2008 .. 0 comments .. Link

You want to know why they call the act "hunting" and not "shooting"? Because you wait and wait and wait. Of course, in my instance I should probably call the pass-time the waiting and shivering game.

Yesterday morning I was out in the hunting blind when I heard a huge commotion off behind me. About 20-30 seconds later, a little doe came hauling tail from behind me and stopped directly in front of my blind. I sighted in on her, but really, she was kind of small, and while I contemplated the meat quantity vs. work required, she bolted through the fence and off into the woods. Well that was settled!

So I sat and sat, and about an hour later, I was getting restless. I had already been in the blind for a few hours, and was about to call it quits for the day. I wiped my nose with a tissue, I adjusted the tall stool that sits in front of me as a support, I used my "doe bleat" just for the heck of it, then I stuck my rifle out the window of the blind and used the scope like a binocular to look down the hill into the woods. I sat up and was startled to see a doe standing right there in front of me! After all that noise I had made! LOL She was a keeper too, good size. So I sat there waiting for her to get into a position where I could take a shot, and finally she turned, and I shot. And completely missed!!! I was shocked! How on earth could I have missed her when she was only about 30 yards away, and I had taken my time. She should have dropped in her tracks like the last deer I got. So I climbed out of the blind to look for signs that I may have hit her, meanwhile my oldest two are hollering out of the house, "WHAT DID YOU SHOOT!?!?!?!?!" Okay, any chance of further hunting this morning is totally gone! So JD and I look around, and find......Nothing. No tufts of hair, nothing. That is good, because the deer had taken off into the flooded timber, and the last thing I wanted was an injured doe, or one that would die off in the woods where we couldn't get it.

But still, I MISSED! HOW!?!?! (Not that I'm trying to brag, but I am a very good shot) So we set up a target, and checked it out, and my sight was off. WAYYYY off. Grrrrr!!!!!! So we sighted it in, and now it is dead on.

So this morning I get up and head out into the blind again, and about the same time as the second doe was out yesterday, I saw something in my peripheral vision, and glanced to my right to see a deer standing 20 feet away from me. She walked along the fence, walked under the fence and headed to the corn. Yes, walked under the fence. She was the tiniest little thing I had ever seen that didn't have spots. So I watched her as she munched down on corn for a good 20-25 minutes. I text-messaged the kids, "do you see the deer?" They didn't.
(Don't you love technology? Texting the kids in the house from the hunting blind

) So I watched the little thing for a while, hoping another one would join her, but not today.

Sigh.

And so continues the waiting and shivering game.

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Fun Video

06:45 PM, Sunday, November 9, 2008 .. 0 comments .. Link

This is a fun video I came across online:

This is another great one along the holiday lines:

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Herpetology

06:16 PM, Thursday, November 6, 2008 .. Posted in Homeschooling .. 0 comments .. Link

The other day, JR went out the the shed, and came back saying he thought there was a snake out there. I went to look, and found a VERY fresh snake shedding, it was still moist. We are pretty sure it is from a rat snake.

We thought it was really neat how well the head came out!

We added it to our collection of "finds" in the classroom :-)

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Science experiment: air pressure, gliders

06:05 PM, Thursday, November 6, 2008 .. Posted in Homeschooling .. 0 comments .. Link

JR had an experiment for science the other day, learning about air pressure and its effect on wings. For this experiment, he needed to make two gliders.......

Then he had to throw them. Since it was wet outside, we used the hall way.

And then he had to measure.....

(Yes, my hallway is lined with feed bins.....horse feed, goat feed, chicken, rabbit, etc.)

He threw the gliders 10 times each, and the glider with the long narrow wings consistently flew further than the glider with the short wide wings.

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Homeschool Football League!

06:00 PM, Thursday, November 6, 2008 .. Posted in Homeschooling .. 0 comments .. Link

Well, today was the last day of football for the season. These were the final, play-off games. The boys in the first huddle....

JD snatching a flag...

The winning team...

So next week, we will be heading to the capital for state championships!!!

And as we always do.....after the last game (and first game) of the season, we celebrate with ice cream!

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oh boy....

08:07 AM, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 .. 3 comments .. Link

Here we go, today is the day.

Election Day!

I think the tv and radio just need to stay off. I can't stomach any more of the political hashing.

I think I'll check the news tomorrow and see the aftermath.

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Something Silly

08:09 AM, Sunday, November 2, 2008 .. 2 comments .. Link

TYPE ONLY ONE WORD. IT'S HARDER THAN YOU THINK!!!

1. Where is your cell phone? desk
2. Your significant other? hunting
3.Your hair? long
4.Your mother? Illinois
5. Your father? Illinois
6. Favorite thing? family
7. Your dream last night? forgotten
8. Your favorite drink? coffee
9. Your dream/goal? sustainability
10.The room you're in? classroom
11. Your fear? undecided
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? homesteading
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. What you're not? ignorant
15. Muffins? pumpkin
16. One of your wish list items? tools
17. Where you grew up? town
18. The last thing you did? breakfast
19. What are you wearing? flannel
20. Your TV? old
21. PETS? zoo
22. Your computer? functional
23. Your life? full
24. Your mood? sleepy
25. Dating someone? permanently
26. Your car? ancient
27. Something you're not wearing? socks
28. Favorite Store? Lehmans
29. Your summer? busy
30. Your favorite color? Green
31. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
32. Last time you cried? recently

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Currently Reading: "Biblical Church" By Beresford Job
"Reimagining Church" by Frank Viola
"The Criminalization of Christianity" by Janet L. Folger
"PaganChristianity?" by George Barna & Frank Viola
"The Revolution" by Ron Paul
"What So Proudly We Hailed" by Blaine Staat

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deut. 6:4-7
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THE RECIPE BOX

Bread Recipes (some sweet):
My Basic Bread Recipe (with "pan-ease" mixture)
Cinnamon Rolls
Pepperoni Rolls
Swiss Onion Bread
Pumpkin Bread
Cinnamon Doughnut Muffins
Focaccia
Pilgrim Brown Bread
Cinnamon Swirl Quickbread
Pumpernickel Bread
Portuguese Sweet Bread

Meals:
Chunky Chicken Chili & Cornbread
French Bread & Stromboli
French Toast
Hearty Split Pea Soup
Stir-Fried Beef
Scallops L'Orange
Farmer's Pasta
Complete Meal: Chicken & Sausage Platter, Smashed Potatoes, Onion Peas & Rice Pudding
Roasted Cornish Hens & Sweet Potatoes
Meatball Stew
Simple Sloppy Joes
Chicken Salad in toast cups
Oven Baked Chicken
Bacon Cheeseburger Roll
Chicken Tortilla Bake
My Meatloaf
Hungarian Goulash
Scalloped Potatoes & Ham
Crunchy Chicken Casserole
Cheddar Ham Chowder
Chicken & Dumplings (buttermilk dumplings)
My Lasagna
German Potato Soup
Baked Macaroni & Cheese

Sweets:
Blackberry Cobbler
Blackberry Elation
My Chocolate Coffee Creamer
Woof! Ginger yaps Dog treats
Chocolate Pie
Blondies
The Good Chocolate Cake
The Best Chocolate Frosting
Grandma's Ice Cream Dessert
Dessert Apple Pizza with wheat pizza crust
Snickerdoodles

SLIME recipe (non-food)

What type of Mother Hen Are You?
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