I'm moving to a new blog: cindytheartist.blogspot.com. I love HomeschoolBlogger, but I don't often blog about school, and blogspot has some really cool features available. I won't be deleting this blog just yet, I might keep both, we'll see.

I added a lot of entries to the new blog yesterday when I created it. Now let's see if I can update it regularly.

We started back to school this week (YAY!). We are studying Butterflies and having a great time together. Today we had a special guest teacher, my nephew Nathan (he's 12). He came very well prepared, complete with powerpoint presentation to support his lecture on Monarch Butterflies (very impressive), his butterfly specimens, a live butterfly caught this morning, brochures, identification charts, worksheets and a test!

  It was a lot of fun and we all learned a lot. Thank you Nathan!! We look forward to inviting him back again in the future (he wants to teach us about birds next).

Here's a picture of the professor with his presentation.

The kids just got new walker puppies...one for each of them!! They plan to train them to be 'coon dogs.

Thomas picked the runt of the younger litter (we had first pick of two litters, 6 and 7 weeks old).

Here is Thomas with Little Ann.

Here is Daniel with Old Dan (Old Dan and Little Ann were the redbone puppies in "Where the Red Fern Grows"

Here is Audrey with Dora (or maybe Ruby, she hasn't decided for sure yet).

Dora/Ruby has a crooked tail that looks broken.

And Kenny and Sammy (Mr. Bert's boy who is staying with us during the day this summer) have "Buck." Buck will probably go live at Sammy's house once they get moved back to a bigger place later this summer.

There are more pictures at my picturetrail here, including one that shows why Old Dan is the biggest.

We have a pair of Sand Hill Whooping Cranes that live in the area. We can see them almost daily in one of the surrounding pastures. They have a baby and I got a picture of the adorable little fuzzy thing. The other parent bird was just to the left, but I cropped that one out and zoomed in to see the baby better. As they walked around the pasture searching for bugs to eat, they kept their baby right between them.

Our kids really want a swimming pool. Daniel, Audrey and Drake (cousin) decided to make their own.

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