Bayberry Cottage
• Jun. 21, 2009 - Strawberries, School, Barn
Done with school last Friday. JJ was off at Ranch Hand Training for Summer Camp, though, so he will finish this coming week.
We are talking about the year's upcoming schedule and how we'll do it this time. JJ wants to do school five days a week. I think that will be fine for him, being in high school, and having choir M,T, R, and F at the high school north of here anyway. The younger children and I will stay on a four day a week schedule as long as it's convenient.
We got our first ripe strawberries last weekend. They're coming in a little at a time, disappointingly sour. Not terribly sour, but not as sweet as I expect home vine-ripened strawberries should be. The variety or the weather? With dinner tonight we had a bowl of strawberries, some of which were vine-ripened. We had to sugar them lightly, though.
The barn roof was shingled yesterday morning by a scary guy with many tattoos. But done quickly. Nice!
Ellie is visiting us for about ten days. I like having her help with the horses. Saxton bucked me off again so I've been working the dickens out of him - ground training and lunging. He needs about 100 miles and fifty hours of groundwork. Ellie's riding Spur for me, knocking a little of the sass out of her. She was hyper crazy on our ride Thursday. After being bucked off by Saxton the day before, and still really sore (I'm still sore today), I was scared that she would buck me off, too. She didn't but she scared me. I'm thinking really calm horses are good. Brrr.
I spent several hours between last night and today working on the organization in the new schoolroom/sunporch. It's not done, but significantly improved, and there's actually some empty spaces on my desk! LOL! |
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