School House Rocks LIVE! Jr.

Remember the School House Rocks cartoons that interrupted your Saturday morning cartoons? If you said yes, then you are probably showing your age like I (Pam) am! Cordell and Ryan were in Fine Linen Drama's production of School House Rocks LIVE! Jr. in October.

Here is the blue group singing a great song, but I have already forgotten which one it was. Maybe the "Do the Circulation" ? This is why it is always better to post about these things right after they happen instead of waiting 4 months!

Remember this one? "I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill" Well it's a long long journey to the capitol city, it's a long, long wait while I'm sitting in committee, but I know I'll be a law someday!"

"Interplanet Janet she's a galaxy girl, a solar system Ms. from a future world. She travels like a rocket with her comet team, and there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen..."

"Conjunction Junction, what's your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses. Conjuction Junction, how's that function? I got three favorite cars that get most of my job done..." Yes, that is Cordell in the hat.

"Oh yeah!"

The Preamble

"In 1787 I'm told, our founding fathers all sat down, and wrote a list of principles that's known the world around. The USA was just starting out, a whole brand new country, and so our people spelled it out. They wanted a land of liberty. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Ryan is the tall one in the picture below.

"Three is a magic number. 3,6,9, 12, 15,18,21,24,27,30!"

"Interjections (Hey!) show excitement (Ouch!) or emotion (Yow!)

They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamtion point,

or by a comma if the feeling's not too strong...."

Time for "Plan B" & in the meantime...

We have been enjoying our respite from the stresses of moving out of our house. Liz & Lewis have been most generous with sharing their guesthouse with us. We were waiting to hear if our Plan A was going to work out or not. We have heard now, and looks like we will be going with Plan B, which is to live in some type of temporary housing at our farm. We are exploring some options we may have with the structures that are already there, or with possibly bringing in something like a mobile home. Hopefully, we will get it figured out fairly quickly so we can ease the stresses of transitional living!

In the meantime, the kids have been rather busy recently. Cordell & Ryan are participating in a First Lego Robotics Challenge and so have been busy with their teams preparing for it. Cordell's team is researching the lungs and respiration, and Ryan's team has narrowed their research down to the use of biomedical engineering helps for macular degeneration. Rather interesting!

Cordell & Jenny are both playing basketball with the homeschool teams through RHAA, and have had practices twice a week.

We had to put up some new fencing for our cows at our new farm. Tomorrow is the big day for turning them out of their temporary round pen.

Well, all for now.
Posted by Pam

Fall is harvest time...

Digging up Sweet Potatoes!

This is the 2nd year we have grown sweet potatoes. They are really quite easy to grow and don't require a lot of care. Late in May I bought 25 sweet potato slips (small plants) and planted them. After mulching, we really just left them alone until this past week. Cordell and Ryan have been a great help in digging them up, and it is nice that they can just take over the task for me now.

We will be eating these soon. Yummy!

Posted by Pam