I really don't like taking breaks from our lessons.  I find I actually get bored! Can you imagine?  I love being with my guys and learning with them.  I gives my day structure and I get things done.  When left with all day to do what I want, I find myself getting little accomplished.  I was relieved to start at our lessons again yesterday.  It was a bit of a shaky start, but we got it going again.  We are finally in module B in chapter 10 of Volume 2.  We'll only be there until tomorrow and then we'll move on again.  I spent way too much time in Module A, but I felt I needed to do some back tracking first.  I've been doing quite a bit of my own side reading on this time period and I'm getting quite the eye opener.  Really, I never learned any of this stuff when I was in school.  No European history at all!  I feel like I'm starving to catch up on all of it.  The school system is doing the students a disservice by not spending more time on this.  It really makes you connect the dots as to why things are they way they are.

I've got all these projects I want to get done over winter before the gardening season kicks in again.  I want to get our basement in some kind of order and neat.  We just sort of threw boxes down there when we moved in.  My hubby has been dragging a bit up to the attic, which I don't think solves anything except it's out of waters way IF our basement should get any water in it.  So the boxes just get moved around and not really dealt with.  I want to get down and dirty and DEAL with it.  I also want to get things hung up on walls and some curtains put up.  Start to make this place look like our home.  I still am using the curtains that were here (not my taste) and the walls are still a bit bare. (hence, where some of the boxes came from). 

I'm already looking at gardening catalogs and dreaming about the upcoming garden I want to plant.  This puppy is going to be big, 100x62 ft.  Oh Yeah!!!   A bit of it will be used for planting fodder for the animals such as turnips and maybe some feed corn and lots of sunflowers.  I figure that will be not quite half of it.  The other half we will grow for ourselves and to sell.  My ds is open for business to sell his eggs.  This is exciting.  We also brought over a "friend" for our goats to breed with.  We are hopeful to have some kids by early June.  This guy is a big one!  If I remember, I'll take a picture to see the comparison.

Speaking of goats, gotta go and check up on them.