I’m taking a few days off from blogging because I have a rather large project I am working on and would like to have done as soon as possible. I expect to be back to normal blogging Monday, however I will still try to get up at least one chapter of Homeschool: An American History up before then. I fell behind last week due to icky pregnancy stuff and having more to do to prepare for the first full week of school than I realized. I don’t want to get any further behind on that!
Some reading:
Carnival of Homeschooling over a The Homeschool CPA.
Carnival of Education over at Lead from the Start.
And my personal blog takes significantly less time, being predominantly made up of snapshots of our day. So if you really miss me, you can pop over there and read the latest from my family.
And I just got off the phone with somebody after being transferred a bazillion times. I found out officially from some state official named Buzz who works for some part of the Department of Agriculture that there are no ordinances, laws, etc. governing where we live. The freedom of it all is making me giddy as the official answer to my inquiries about chickens and beehives was “to use some common sense.”
Common sense says I probably shouldn’t try to start a poultry farm in my back yard or I will find a plethora of laws written just for me, but right now it feels pretty good to be left alone with my own common sense to determine what would be appropriate in our little community.
See you next week!
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Sorry to hear you’ve been feeling yucky, Dana. Godspeed on your project and the start of your new studies. My “summer project” is still plugging along - as our studies are also in full swing. I lost my summer.
Well, it was consumed by family things (which is good) but didn’t leave much time for writing.
Praying for you and yours.
Boy, that sounds like fun. As long as the chickens don’t have to come inside the house when it gets too cold outside. :]
I juts don’t understnad where you got this idea that you’re allowed to take time off from blogging.
I know, Dawn. Quite insolent of me.
Dana,
You should encourage your talk radio listeners to write an iTunes review. This will help move the podcast to the forefront on the iTunes Store pages.
Great idea! Thanks, Sebastian. Not having an iPod, I know next to nothing about their service over there. I can’t even browse the selections.
You were nominated for Alasandra’s Homeschool Blog Awards.
3 Cheers For a natural right called Common Sense.
We just got our chicks a couple of weeks ago. It’s been a family project and great fun! I highly recommend it. Judy Pangman has a book called Chicken Coops (45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock). Great ideas in there for small to large flocks.
We haven’t had chickens here for a couple of generations and I think your little ones would love it.
I’ve been so entertained in real life finding crickets (and those wretched Japanese Beetles)for our silly chicks that I’m just catching up to blog world again.