Pop Up T-Storms

These beauties are popping up all around.
Normally they're summertime weather, but this year has been summery for a while already.
Three players have soccer tonight and are hoping for the rain to go away.
One mom is hoping for lightning.
A spring peeper just started his concert on my dining room window in anticipation of a deluge.

Fun Schooling

One of my students was not in the mood to expend the energy to memorize her math facts. I was struggling to go over multiplication and division facts till she was fluent, but I was getting nowhere fast.
So I typed into google "math video games," and found this gem.
Reflex Math.
You can have two weeks free, which I did. Then I bought a year for my three students because they like it so much.

http://www.reflexmath.com/go

Red Tail Hawk

Katie captured a bunch of excellent images of this hawk as he circled our farm looking for chicken dinner.

Camouflage Ducks

Here's a view of the garden after Dan plowed and disked it and before I started amending the soil and planting.
Can you spot the two lady ducks in the bottom photo?

Science! Who Knew?

Every year I plant innocent little blueberry twigs from Wal Mart or Lowe's, and every year they die.
This year, Becky the science whiz suggested I test the soil to find out if there may be some underlying reason, besides bad blueberry luck, that they weren't able to survive.
She ran the PH test and now I see her point.
So she and I are off to get acidifying fertilizer for the latest attempt at a blueberry patch.

Spring Flowers by Laura

Laura took advantage of the hot morning by photographing some of the flowers we've planted and picked recently.

Teenagers Rock!

I constantly hear parents and the media talking about the flaws of teenage people.
In my experience, the teenage years are the best so far.
Today we had to go far far away to buy soccer supplies and grocery shop, so all three girls persevered at their school work and chores and got them done early.
Then, knowing we'd arrive back home exhausted and hungry from our long day of shopping, Becky threw chicken with BBQ sauce in the crock pot.
Laura whipped up a big bowl of cole slaw, and we bought Kaiser rolls while we were grocery shopping.
Voila! A dinner that hit the spot on our return.