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Leafhoppers

Beginner Gardens

The other day I was hanging out in my potato patch, just watching lady beetle larvae crawl all over the place.  I turned over a leaf and saw this: The photo isn’t very good, and it’s hard to describe what’s going on in it, but it seemed like there were ants crawling all over a [...]

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Transformation

Beginner Gardens

Our yard and garden has been crawling with these tiny, alligator-y, black and orange critters. Do you know what they are? How about this? How about now? The first photo is the larval stage of the lady beetle. The second pic shows the pupa of the same. Of course, in the third shot, we all [...]

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Old Schooling: The Four R’s Approach

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Our house runs like an old one-room schoolhouse, except for the rampant technology that makes my life SO much easier. Our day starts with the kids reading a little Bible story on their own and saying hello to Jesus in their heart.  If they’re too young to even read an Early Readers Bible, I read [...]

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Teaching Kids to Read the OLD School Way

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I like old stuff. A few months back I read this DREADFULLY sad book about the first American born nun, Lydia Longley, but it gave a great example of how an old school horn book lesson went. I started using it on my younger son and WOW, it is helpful. First, what is a horn [...]

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Click Beetles

Beginner Gardens

This is the Big Eyed Click Beetle, of the family Elateridae. Handsome.  Unfortunately its larvae, wireworms, can be devastating to a potato crop and root crops like carrots.  Following the carbon dioxide released by the target plant it bores into them.  They’re very tough to get rid of, pesticide resistant, and provide a starter hole [...]

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Homeschooling Styles and How I Screwed Them Up

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There are plenty of methods out there, and many are all jazzed about their own way being the best and that anything else is garbage.  Please don’t get waylaid by the propaganda.  Almost anything will work if you stick to it (which I have obviously not done.) The goal is to find something that fits [...]

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