I can check off another year for myself.  The Lord was good to me this year.  I had a beautiful day and got to spend it working outside.  I was able to stick in spinach and lettuce here and there hoping to get a jump on things before my garden area gets tilled for the year. 

My wonderful hubby got me an iPod nano.  I've been wanting one of these things ever since Cindy Rushton has this homeschool conference online.  You are suppose to be able to download all the speakers onto your iPod.  Well, it's not working for me.  I've followed all the directions and Cindy has been so gracious to me in trying to help me.  I'm so discouraged about it all.  I really have issues with new tech gadgets.   I'm serious about this.  It's almost becoming a hindrance to me sometimes.  I want to stay up on things, but I end up with awful results and lots of frustration later.  And I don't want to bother my hubby on the matter.  I was able to get it set up and synced just fine though.  A little encouragement there.  What I didn't know it was going to do was pull my audiobooks off my computer, which I love, but it copies them by each track, yikes there's alot.  I'm not sure how to go about resolving this and making it more managable.

We are having a huge wind storm today.  It has ripped off one of our barn doors that house our goats.  We were also struck by lightening last night.  Luckily it hit a lightening rod and we did't get really any damage.  It just blew the answering machine plug out of the wall and fried the plug thingy (see, I'm such a techie by saying thingy)  We also had one of our ducks fly right through one of our garage door windows.  Amazingly enough, she wasn't hurt really, but did a bit of damage to my hubby's car.  It got quite a few scratches from all the glass and probably her claws.  I"m sure she landed on his car.  She was stunned to say the least, but was fine a bit after.  Let's just say, it's been an interesting weekend so far.

The kids and I are still getting along in Volume 2 chapter 10.  I think we will be starting module G this week.  We have made a nice salt map of the colonies and we've been marking with flags on toothpicks depicting what type of colony it was and the settelments we've studied so far.  I would love to do religions, but I think that is a bit complicated.  We will be adding what their industries are also.  I will add a picture soon.

Well, I need to help button down the hatches around here.  It's really howling!