By amy on December 24, 2025
Since the weather was so nice today, mom decided that we needed to get outdoors and clean out part of the barn. This was in part due to mice who had made a mess chewing up feed sacks. While we worked faithfully below some of the younger boys ventured up into the loft when lo and behold, a mouse! This started an all out rush to catch him. He managed to escape but now the hunt was on. The cousins joined us in rearranging the boards in loft, searching for more mice. Nia (the dog) was right in the thick of it sniffing out each new place to excavate.
We soon discovered a nest of about twelve “pinkies.” The cats joyfully partook in dispatching them. All the while, mice were running every which way and kids with nets and buckets were everywhere. Unfortunatly a lot of the large mice escaped. Just as things were winding down, Nia discovered a door, when inspected, we found out it was hollow inside. We heard little scrabbling feet inside so we pulled it out of the loft and into the fire pit.
Lance and Garrion then lit into it with gusto. As you can see all the onlookers are armed with buckets and nets. As they tore apart the door nine mice were found inside and most were dispatched by Nia.
We are now in the process of resetting the barn and putting in place mouse traps!
The cat caught the first mouse.
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By amy on December 13, 2025
In case you were wondering, yes, this happend last month, but better late than never! We have been studying the midieval times in school so we decided to end this school year with a feast. With each family bringing a dish we manage to have quite an assortment!
Before we dug in we had our young knights participate in some competitions. A catapult made by Lance used tennis balls to knock down a “castle.”
Then trying to knock your opponent off the board with pillows.
Archery, slay the dragon!
And now training with the quintain.
At the end the noble knights received their swords.
Behold the feast tables.
Me and my minion
A little while later we visited the Texas renessiance festival. Several of us got called up to help in performances.
Skyes part was a bit more terrifying than Edens….. A sword through the neck!
We also watched a jousting re-enactment which the boys were thrilled with.
A fire breathing acrobat.
Garrison in the stocks for misconduct.
And finally, at the end, one of the best firework displays we have ever seen.
Thanks for reading! Until next time, -Ivy
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By amy on June 9, 2025
Skye celebrated her tenth birthday with an Amarican Girl themed party.
The Cake was from the Molly book, and Mom decorated it.
The Ice Cream “Bombs” were from Samantha
Tea party from Felicity!
The food was followed by play, Me (Ivy) and Flora set up the stuff and the girls all picked things to go with their dolls.
The dolls and the clothing.
And last but not least was a pinata for Josephina. They then opened presents and played until five in the evening!
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By amy on March 15, 2025
Hello everyone! Our current study has moved into WW2 so we decided to visit a local POW camp in Hearn. We started at the mock guards tower,
Then we moved into a mock barracks which they had set up to look like the original
A map of what the camp originally looked like
The soldier is wearing the coat of one of the men who actually worked there, and Iris is wearing a real helmet.
Then we got to the the excting part, the escape room, our operative was to stop a German escape before it happened.
We were the first group of kids to succeed, and the second to ever finish.
Then we found the old cars, ones that had been used for work on the camp, the tour lady said we could climb on them, and the boys had a blast!
Garrison “repairs the engines.”
Ace finds a “bomb” (an old car part)
Lance and Alexa recreated the camp in rocks while the boys played.
Until next time!
-Ivy
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By amy on March 1, 2025
Hello agin everyone! This is Ivy. Our most recent school study has been on the roaring 20’s and the great depression. First we tried “pole sitting”
Baseball with Babe Ruth
And conssecions! popcorn, peanuts!
Then the stockmarket crashed and we moved on into bread lines
and soup kitchens
Followed by Hobo life. We went and visited the local train trestle and had a lot of fun in the creek
Then we had a Hobo cookout with cans of beans over the fire
Finally we got to visit an abandoned boxcar and “ride the rails”
Until next time!
-Ivy
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