Gemini Skies’ Blog

Boo!

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:55:43 -0800

HALLOWEEN A gentle breeze rustling the dry cornstalks. A sound is heard, a goblin walks. A harvest moon suffers a black cat's cry. Oh' do the witches fly! Bonfire catches a pumpkins gleem. Rejoice, it's Halloween!

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Pix From Our Most Recent Homeschooling Field Trip

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:18:14 -0700

The Autumn Hayride is most often our group's best attended event of the year. We could have done with a bit of sun, but that's New England for you. It's always nice to see so many of us gathered in one place. Thanks, J, for organizng us on...

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Wednesday afternoon hsing knitting group

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:56:37 -0700

To make up for my lack of posting, I offer these pix from our hser's knitting group today.

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A Bit Of An Update

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:32:31 -0700

It's been crazy -busy here, and I have not been able to get to blogging. The update is that we now have 8 chrysalises. One little caterpillar died early in it's formation of his chrysalis. We were sad about that. A couple of the geezers crawled ...

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Friday Eve, September 15th

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:36:44 -0700

Second caterpillar, to the left of the current chrysalis, gets into form. It's 7:30 on Friday night. Check back tomorrow. Here (right) you can see a small caterpillar on a milkweed stem with her recently shedded skin in front of her. C...

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Monarch Caterpillars

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:23:57 -0700

We took this photo last night around 10. We woke to this. A writing about the caterpillars in her journal.

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You've Got To Have Friends

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:40:36 -0700

Here are a few pictures from the N's place this past May. I forgot my camera yesterday when we hsers met to knit . Knit we did, with some children sewing or doing needlepoint, but the pull to play outside is always intense there. Ropes hang f...

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It's Still Summer, Dammit.

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:30:04 -0700

It's not fall until it's fall. The calendar says Sept 11, and that's summer. My schoolers are back at school, but my hsers and I are trying to eek out more summer. That my poor sons have had to start school still does not mean Summer Is Ov...

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Garden Thoughts

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:00:20 -0700

Here are some photos of that healthy garden. Of course, since we've been back, we've seen powdery mildew rear it's ugly head on some of the squash leaves. That's always upsetting, as it's just a matter of time--will the fruit finish growing befor...

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What We Did on Our Summer Vaction

nobody@vox.com(Gemini Skies) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:34:59 -0700

Are you tired of seeing this picture yet? I'm not, so here it is again. We were able to take a whole week together as a family with no outside demands. Getting everyone free for that amount of time was not unlike hearding cats. N had traveled...

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