Goats & Goats

Living on the green belt is AWESOME, most of the time.  I love the feel of living out in the country, while living in the city.  Since the green belt is a nature refuge, the weeds get a little out of hand, and don't even get me started on the ticks... oh those pesky little things.

Well, the city had an great idea, they farmed out the green belts to a local goat farmer.  While over at a friends house yesterday swimming (they live on the other half of our green belt behind us), I saw many goats go running by behind their property.

I like seeing this rather than hearing the lawn mowers (and the allergies that arise from them).  I can't wait until they are brought over to our area.  They are fenced in and have guard/herd dogs with them.  The goats seemed like they had gone to heaven.

EEEEwwwwww!

I was bored and decided to do some re-arranging and consolidation in the classroom.  Less is more, right?  I used to have 3 bookshelves to store and hold some school stuff, but it was so dark in the corner, I wanted change.  Since I have Nat home for 5 days straight, he was able to help me move them.  Since I consolidated and got rid of one bookshelf, I gave it to my mom who so desperately needs shelving in their new home.  Once back and had the remaining shelves put into their prospective spots, I find this on the floor (it was under one of the shelves that we moved)...

I turn to Nat, pointing and asking, "Is that what I think it is?"
He looks down and says, "Why YES, it is."
"Is that the skeleton, or the skin?" I ask.
"Both" was his reply.
"How in the world did it get in here?"
"I have no idea."
Ok, now I have the chills running up my spine again.  EEEwww!

Don't get me wrong, I love am ok with frogs, but as long as they STAY outside and I don't have to get close to those slimy, slippery little things that go CROAK all through the night.

Worm Composting

We are trying to be more earth friendly as well as more self reliant. We have started some container vegetable gardening. It all started last week after visiting Whole Foods for a field trip here in town. Since Earth Day was Wednesday, Whole Foods celebrated it on Saturday for the whole community. The kids wanted to go, so we went...

One of the tabled was Red Worm Composting. Of course the kids just had to have one, so we got one and had to set it up once home, to give the worms their proper home. Well, we couldn't really have a compost bin without a garden to put it in, right? Oh, did I tell you... the compost bin is here in the house, can't you see my skin just crawling? So, we planted ourselves a garden. We have some herbs, veggies, fruit and even some flowers to go it it. We don't have a lot of space, so we are doing container gardening (this way, when we buy our house - our first house, we can take our garden with us). We will be adding to our garden some fun things like, windmills, bird houses, and some bird feeders. We are getting and using the ideas from the book "Green Thumb".

There has been a lot of talk about bloggers taking other bloggers thoughts and storied & coping them and posting as their own blog. That is rude. This post may seem like you read it before over @ Adventurous Instruction... that's ok, I did plagiarize, but hey, that is my homeschooling blog, so, I am aloud to do it.

Turkeys,

We had the turkeys back this morning. I love seeing all the turkeys, I was out in the middle of the street, surrounded by turkeys. One got up in my neighbor's tree, and one even got up on my van. The cats didn't know what to do with all the turkeys. I can't tell if they were scared for their lives, or saying, "SCORE, I'm having me some BIRD for BREAKFAST!" Amazingly, they are not afraid of humans.