Sorry about the low volume.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Carolina Wrens
This mother bird obliged us by making a nest right outside our schoolroom window. It was fun to watch the babies go from scraggly fuzz and closed, bulging eyes, to healthy adolescents ready to strike out on their own. How providential (as is everything) that I sent Nate down to the garage on an errand one day just as the little birds left the nest. He came charging up the stairs yelling, “The baby birds!! The baby birds are out of the nest!!” So we dropped everything and ran don to watch them hop around the driveway and eventually off into the bushes.
April 19–Carlton Farm
One of our spring field trips was to this picturesque dairy farm.
The tour included milking and egg sorting demonstrations and lots of time to pet baby animals.
Our friends the Spaughs and Barias
Meg could have stayed by this little calf’s pen all day.
At the farm we bought a gallon of raw milk for about $7 (I hear that is a great price) which they sell “for pets” (in Georgia it is illegal to sell raw milk for human consumption). The farmers and several friends of ours tout the health benefits of drinking unpasteurized milk. So under the influence of all the fresh air and green grass I decided to bring some home. The kids thought it was wonderful (that was just because it had all the fat in it), but all kinds of other people said, “Um, you really shouldn’t be drinking that.” Well, I’m just enough of a rule follower (ok, I’m completely a rule follower) that I started having second thoughts. Of course you can find loads of facts and anecdotes to support both sides. But then one of the kids began to complain of a stomach ache, so I dumped the rest of the milk down the drain! I know, I know people have been drinking milk straight from the cow (goat, etc.) for millennia but, at least for now, I guess I’m not one of them.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Viburnum!
I have always wanted viburnum in my own yard. A few years ago I bought one small bush and now every spring I can cut several large vases full. Love it!
Shortly after these pictures were taken our cousin Josh finished the last phase of the kitchen remodel. The walls are a lovely, soothing, light green and the cabinets are white/off-white with a dark brown glaze in the grooves. If anyone in the north Metro-Atlanta area is looking for construction/remodeling/handyman services, please call us to get Josh’s number. He is the best!
Caleb at the Nature Center
I think I’ve posted pictures of the Dunwoody Nature Center before. It’s a nice place to be in the woods and only about 5 miles away. This time we ate lunch and the kids played in the creek for a little while, but then Nate gashed his foot on a broken root in the path, so we had to head home early.
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