It’s time for some more great web links!  Here are a few of my current favorites:

The Book Samaritan:  http://booksamaritan.com/  If you are having a hard time financially and need help purchasing homeschool books, contact the Book Samaritan for help.  On the other hand, if you’ve been blessed financially, consider donating to them so they can help others.

Free Homeschool Materials: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeHomeschoolTools  is a very large email group of homeschoolers who offer 100% free homeschool books and supplies.  If you have extra curriculum to give away (even if many of the lessons are missing), there is someone who would love to take it off your hands (I mean, bookshelf!).  The person receiving the free item will pay for the shipping.

What’s That Bug? http://www.whatsthatbug.com/  Is a fascinating site, all about bugs.  If you have a mysterious bug in your house (well, hopefully not in it), you can probably identify it by browsing What’s That Bug?   If you can’t find it in their database, drop them a line and they’ll post your photo and the bug’s identification for all to see.  Thanks to this site, we were able to identify the Nephila Clavipes (Golden Silk Spider) on our front porch.

Be sure to check this one out:  Enature:  http://www.enature.com  On the home page, insert your zip code (you can leave the email address area blank).  What you will get as a result of inputting your zip is a field guide to this specific area.  We use this site often to identify birds and bugs that we see in our yard. You can also use the site to identify trees and wildflowers.

You all know it is Red White and Blues Week at Pensacola Beach, Florida this week, right?  The Navy’s Blue Angels are flying on Thursday, July 14, 2006, Friday, and Saturday.  This is by far their best air show, since it is a home show and they can perform extra maneuvers since they are over water.  Look here for more information:  http://www.visitpensacolabeach.com/news/redwhiteblues2006.htm  We’ll be there on Friday!  

Lori Seaborg

by Lori Seaborg 2006

Posted by momma2aejsk

I have signed up for the Homeschool Freecycle & passed that link on to others.
I am going to try to catch the Blue Angels. I haven't seen them since I was a kid & I'm sure the kids would love it. Thanks for posting these sites.

Samantha

Posted by KarenW

Great resources. Thanks Lori!!

Posted by Cre8iveMom

These are great resources! I'll enjoy checking them out! Thanks!

~Cindy

Posted by TxHSmom

The "FreecycleHomeschool" group doesn't exist anymore. Now there is a group called "FreeHomeschoolTools" ran by a nice lady named Laurie. :)

Nice blog you have here! And thanks for the links to the other websites!

In Him,
M~

Posted by KeepingtheHome

I noticed the freecycle homeschool group disappeared, too. Do you know why? I wondered if it's because of the Freecycle name, which is probably copyrighted to Freecycle.org, a great organization. Thanks for the new link.

Posted by Sweetpaddington

Dear Lori, I believe it's now -

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homeschoolrecyclefree/

God bless you and your home & family.

Posted by KeepingtheHome

I started a group for donating your free homeschool items to others after writing the above blog post: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeHomeschool . As of now, there are over 1000 members.