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Your tour guides for today:

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An antique rose.....

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Calendula bloom about to be harvested.....

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A bunch of baby grapes.....

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A fresh strawberry ready for picking......

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Lollo Rosso lettuce....

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Milk thistle seedlings....

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Clematis in full bloom....

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Little Marvel green pea blossom....

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Salad Bowl lettuce.....

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These wild creatures are often spotted in the area munching on the garden goodies!

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Don't forget to check out Nature Grrrl's blog to find a yummy recipe for mint leaf and rose petal candy and Crazy Calvin's blog to see the garden spot his Dad made for him!

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I haven't been keeping up with blogging very well!  The kids have taken over my job!  They each now have their own blogs, so I figure they can keep our families updated on what we are up to (and it's a sneaky, fun way to practice spelling and writing!)

This was taken on "Calvin's" birthday.  He is now 7 years old!

Apparently, he has grown in spite of being starved his whole life:

The sign says "Please Give Me Food or Money.  I AM Starving"

The kids finished up their achievement tests (Thanks A!) and they seemed to do very well. 

The garden is growing... the kids are growing.... the chickens are growing....

Everything is going well.  No real news, just a real boring post!

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EDIT:  The mystery has been solved.  It is a locust leaf miner beetle and it's very, very bad! (Back to catching them and dropping them in soapy water with the 18 million tent caterpillars eating my fruit trees and roses!)

Not homeschool related, just a post to show someone a bug infestation on my apple trees I was telling them about....

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Close up photo.....

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...apparently eating spots in the leaves......

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...seems to be making the leaves curl as I have found several inside a curl......

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