Butterflies

September 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Our caterpillars all hatched out of their chrysalis’s and we were able to observe three beautiful butterflies. It was a wonderful way for us to marvel at some of God’s creations. I wrote a post with pictures of the whole process on my other blog if you are interested. (Click here.)

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Chrysalis

September 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Yesterday I posted about the three Monarch caterpillars we found on Monday. Here is the link to that post. Anyway, my preschoolers had just arrived for our morning class and I was showing them the jar of caterpillars. All of a sudden the caterpillar that had attached to the side of the jar last night [...]

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Garden and Farm Update

July 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

I was asked recently for more garden updates by Michelle. So, I thought I would do just that. Our garden has really been flourishing. We have really felt God’s blessings with the harvests we have had already. The newspapers and straw in between most of my rows has also been a blessing. Not only can [...]

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Another Hen and Our First Egg

April 21, 2009 By 2 Comments

We added one more hen to our brood Saturday. My daughter named her Josefina after a hen that was in a book we read called The Josefina Story Quilt. Her addition gives us a total of four hens. I am not sure whether it was her addition to the pen that caused the hens to [...]

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Ask and Ye Shall Receive.. Chickens?

April 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

For the past week I have had an overwhelming desire to have a few hens again (As well as having a dairy goat, but that is another post. Maybe?). I don’t know if I have ever mentioned it here or not, but we used to raise chickens. When my husband and I bought this house [...]

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