August 20, 2010

Visiting the Opossum's Bottom Homestead

We visited a family homestead on a coop field trip. The kids enjoyed seeing all the animals.


Look at that pig!





The farm primarily produces goats milk/cheese. Here's the babies.




They also have some Jacob sheep, a primitive, spotted wool-bearing breed that can grow up to 6 horns!


Not surprising, Mitchell found the horses. They followed him around.

August 6, 2010

Blueberry Picking and Playing With Friends

We went Blueberry Picking again last week. This was our 3rd year in a row. We've determined that 7 gallons is the right number for us. (At $5/gallon that's do-able, if not a lot of work!) After laying them out to dry we made a few blueberry treats (muffins and cobblers,) and then froze several gallons (for Mitchell to snack on and the rest of us to use in our smoothies.) After picking the blueberries we went to a nearby creek to have a picnic and play with our friends.





We came across a nest of baby birds while we were picking.













January 29, 2010

Homeschool Coop, Then to the Park

At coop this week we made Paper Snowflakes. It's supposed to snow a bunch tonight, so we hung them from the ceiling once we got home.





Then we went over to the park to play with our friend. The weather was getting colder and colder, but we stayed warm, running around with our friends.



We even got a game of Red Rover going with several of our friends.