- It's Raining!

• Oct. 26, 2009 - It's Raining!

Posted in Fall 2009 Back in Sobradinho

Typical NE Cowboys
They wear leather to protect them from all the cactus and thorns in the semi-arid Caatinga.

In the middle of the night it started raining. Woo Hoo! We live in the desert Northeast of Brazil where the rain clouds are pretty but usually just that, all fluff and no stuff. But twice recently we have gotten solid nights of steady rain. Now all the toads are chirping their little songs. They hibernate in the dried mud waiting for the rains. Seems these odd rains are a little early, but we'll take them! Sometimes our "rainy season" is mostly dry, so beggars can't be choosers.

This morning when the boys got up they all proclaimed that surely no one could do school work on such a cloudy, rainy day. We had to turn on the lights in our house this morning it was so dark. Usually by 6:00 am it's so light outside that we just open our wooden louvered windows and don't need any artificial lighting. I played it cool and suggested they take a few extra minutes to play after breakfast while I did the morning dishes. Then we casually and slowly moved into our normal activities. I did let up and allowed everyone to skip NC History today and we spent the time doing a little review of our Lyrical Life Science lessons thus far completed and got started on our newest song - Ungulates! That's hoofed mammals for all you non-scienctifical types.

And everyone was happy, well, content. It was a nice quiet day for the most part, and cool, thanks to the rain! Our week will be a little short as we have a retreat on the island this weekend. The boys will be helping with some of the activities on the island: pellet gun, archery, watching over the kayaks, supervising the zip-line, etc. Some light school work we'll take along for the downtimes like reading our NC History textbooks and our handwriting copywork books. In spite of our late start with our arrival from furlough in late August, we aren't too far off schedule. We'll be using most of December and doing more work in January than usual, but I feel confident that the boys will be fine.

Be back sometime next week with some pics of the retreat and reports on any fish caught!

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• Oct. 29, 2009 - Fishing

Posted by Grandma

We'll be waiting to know if any fish were caught. And how camp went.Dad & I will be praying.

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