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Rambling Thoughts on a Tuesday …

Posted on Oct. 16, 2007 at 5:59 PM

This weekend we spent quite a bit of time trying to tame the remains of a six cubic square yard pile of dirt but I will not write about that here since I am supposed to be posting about those things on my poor lonely homestead blog! Our yard work did bring us two interesting finds … another real live scorpion and a scorpion skin. The real live scorpion was hiding in the crack at the base of the house under the front door mat. I was in the house and did not get to see this one but I did hear loud shouts from out front. My six year old daughter was the one who found it walking across the patio. It is getting a little cold here for scorpions to be active (yay!!!). My family told me this one was moving very, very slowly. We did not choose to keep this one as a temporary pet … he/she met their end with several thuds of a shovel at Bethany’s hand! A little later we found a scorpion skin in the garage. Scorpions shed their skins as they grow and leave behind evidence that they were indeed in that spot! Soooo, since we found a skin, we know there is at least one more hiding … somewhere in the garage.

Today after many months of putting it off … I finally tuned the harp. And I taught Bethany how to do it. Passing along the job of harp tuning … yay! She has been asking me to tune it for a long while. I kept forgetting and often when I did remember, the house was much too noisy. I tune with an electronic tuner and it must be somewhat quiet so it can pick up the string sound. I can hardly wait until Bethany masters the harp and can play songs. I love harp music.

I started MUS with my littles today. It was fun and easy … I hope it stays that way! :)

Sourdough bread … we are on a search for a new starter. I may just have to start my own. Our last starter did not have a nice taste. It was not sour but rather sweet.

We recently had another temporary pet … a Carolina Sphinx Moth. My husband found it at work. We only kept it one night because it was so unhappy living in a gallon jar (I do not blame it one bit!). Homeschooling up close and personal is such fun. A much better way to learn than studying drawings or photographs in some book.

My sweet husband is on his way home and I want to get this posted before he arrives.

~ Rachelle

Rachelle,

Posted by Juldos on Oct. 17, 2007 at 6:03 AM - Link

I always enjoy your posts so much! Wish you lived closer as I would share some sourdough starter with you. It's over 20 years old and friends all over the county are baking bread from my jar of starter. : )
Hugs,
Julie D.

Hi Rachel!

Posted by Bobbi on Oct. 31, 2007 at 5:54 AM - Link

Just dropping by to say hi and to say I miss reading your blog!
Blessings!
Bobbi

Hello

Posted by rjdjohn316 on Oct. 31, 2007 at 11:50 AM - Link

I was at your daughter, Bethany's blog and I thought I would come over and say hello. I am a friend of both your daughters', and comment on their blogs regularly.

I am going to add you to my friends, if that is ok.

Love,
Rachel

Ewww...

Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 3, 2007 at 6:09 AM - Link

I hate scorpions! My parents always had them at their house in Texas and they gave me the creeps. I'm glad your little one is braver than I am and can smack them down with a shovel. Those things creeped me out so much I always had to get someone else to come and kill them for me.

Cheers!
Lori
http://lorislightextemporanea.blogspot.com
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/slackermom

BRRRR!

Posted by PBHeartSchool on Nov. 8, 2007 at 10:21 PM - Link

Talk of scorpions made me shiver! Like the other Lori said, I'm glad Bethany was brave and took the upper hand with it.

Thanks for mentioning the harp...ahhhh....calmness has washed over me once again.

Good night and God bless,
Lori.

Hello

Posted by JoyfulMomma on Nov. 17, 2007 at 8:58 PM - Link

Just stopping by. We found a scorpion in our house just a few days ago. Only the second one I have ever seen. It was 4:30 a.m. when we found him in the kitchen.

God bless,
Belynda