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My son broke his wrist/arm playing rugby with some other kids on our last instructional day at the resource center this year.   It was a yucky break, making it not possible to routinely set and crushing bone at one spot completely. He had surgery to set a pin.         This is a picture of my son's hand. It shows how swollen he had become in just a matter of hours. Although, that was not why I took this picture. I took it because the surgeon wrote yes on his hand to note which side to operate on...Remember, my son is dyslexic and this was being read by him upside down on his hand. It was funny, because my son had thought the surgeon had wrote the word SEX on his hand and did not read it as yes.    Awaiting surgery...    Post-op x-ray.   A week later, we went back to the surgeon to have the temporary cast removed and have a permanent harder cast applied. Then pin was checked and a new x-ray was taken. His wr...

We have finished the academic year for this year. Charles completed 4.5 Carnegie units and the remainder of his courses were 8th grade. He still used accommodations throughout. I have been asked via email about his books and what we used this year, so I thought about this post. 8th grade classes: ELA - Latin Road to Grammar           Progeny Press Literature guides           IEW-B PE Music 9th grade classes: Latin I - Visual Latin Algebra I - Saxon Algebra I Physical Science Honors - Exploration Education Physical Science Advanced Geography - Around the World in 180 Days Introduction to Engineering - teacher created course To help with learning, all books are still through Learning Ally to accommodate the learning disability and a laptop was purchased through a grant by the Homeschool Fund.

I had a nice cucumber plant growing...   but it had sores on the bases of the stems...     i sought advice on what it might be...the prevailing thought was that it might have vine borers within the stem...the issue with this, is that typically to have something like borers, the leaves typically are dieing and yellowing on the ends...but, this cuke was pretty and starting to bud.   i decided to cut off the stem with the least amount of blooms and dissect it.     i sliced up the stem at the bad spot...i was really ready for the borer...nothing was in the stem...    it was just a sore spot on the stem. this is good, because this means the remainder of the plant and soil did not have to be removed and lost. this is bad, because i sacrificed half of a perfectly good cucmber plant... ugh! :/  

We have this draft stopper left over from CHRISTmas that we use. It is called Brown Baby, because the child we keep from next door named it Bown Baby !   Tonight, as we were gone from the house for approximately 2 hours, one of my labs tried to disassemble Brown Baby. When I got home, Brown Baby's innards were outards on the floor. YaYa had disassembled Brown Baby completely.   I had to do Brown Baby surgery tonight after dinner. My younger son helped to stuff Brown Baby back together - outards to innards and then the stitching began...three stitch-ups altogether. YaYa was busy while we were gone.     

salt only loses its saltiness when diluted or mixed with things it was not intended to mix with. light only becomes dark when placed into the vacuum. are you Salt and Light? or, do you allow yourself to mix with what you are not supposed to mix with? are you Salt and Light? or, do you allow yourself to walk in darkness, letting the vacuum envelope you? time to choose. make a choice. make a stand.

  child broke wrist in area that could not be set.  a picture of the way the wrist/arm was NOT made to bend.  after surgery...much straighter now...   God was good (all the time)! Surgery was swift and less evasive than originally anticipated.

     The chickens have repeatedly been escaping from the chicken yard...only two of them continue to escape. Gray and Golden are good at getting out. They never roam far and stay right by the fencing, just on the outside. It is funny to watch them when we discover one has gotten out, because once out, the chicken escapee continuously tries to get back in the chicken yard. The yard needed reinforcement. There were lots of brambles all around and behind the yard, so we cleaned it all out and extended the yard some.  This is where we extended the new yard to...this goes all the way behind the chicken coop and out about 5 or 6 feet or so...   Here you can see the other corner of the back of the coop in the right side of the picture. The chicken yard used to end or start here and go to the tree on the left then, go to the tree in the upper portion of the picture. It has been enlarged to what I thought was originally about 1/3 the size of the ori...