Officially Started??

Ana has been begging me to start school. This morning she kept asking and even sat at the table waiting. So, I believe Ana has officially started school. ~smile~

Katie is now sitting at the table with her math book. I'm concerned that she is going to have a little trouble concentrating. We shall see.

I, on the other hand, am not ready. I'm still putting notebook pages together for Story of the World 1(for the girls) and Tom's science. I've been having second thoughts about Tom's history. I'm thinking I want him to do Story of the World 3 & 4 with his history reading books that are listed below plus some.

Tom is working shoveling manure today. Yep, he's working on a horse farm with our friend Jimmy. It's good for him. I get tired of seeing him on x-box (I really don't like that game). He does go to the pool almost every day.

On Friday, Jimmy gave me huge containers of tomatoes. So now we have 17 bags of sauce. He gave us zucchinis and I made 30 loaves of different zucchini breads (still have many left). I will be blanching them and freezing. We also have a huge container of cucumbers and I'm waiting for Ed to help me make pickles. He did that last year. Oh yeah, he also gave us many eggplant so I'm slowing frying and freezing them. We are getting a full freezer which I am very thankful for.

Have a good day everyone.
~Margarete~

P.S. Forgot to add that we also have a few pans of zucchini brownies frozen. ~smile~

Pea Picking

Last night Ed came home and asked, "How would you like to pick some peas?" "What?" I asked. Yep. Jimmie called and said he has lots of peas. Well, That's what we did this afternoon. We gathered some of the kids including Becca's friend Brian and off we went; pea picking (very natural not sprayed!). We had fun. I now have a lot of respect for the people who have to do this all the time. ~smile~

Anyway, we came home with a few buckets of peas, broccoli, and a huge carpenter's bucket of eggplant. ~LOL~

Yes, Jimmie also had some of the other vegetables there for us. I will now be freezing these. I also found out that I can freeze eggplant, which I did not know. So, tomorrow afternoon I should be busy in the kitchen.

Tom said that when he is older, he would love to be able to do this, plant crops, harvest, etc. But he said this would be on the side after his "regular" job. I had to smile at that. Jimmie is an excellent teacher for this. I now have to start finding some books and experiments, etc. for Tom.