Quiet today

A. Yates

26 Jan 2000, at 12:35pm

It's quiet out there today. Is everyone out playing in the snow?
A

David & Betsy Wright

26 Jan 2000, at 12:41pm

We're in Florida, so we're not playing in the snow. It was 39 degrees when I got up this morning so I wouldn't have been surprised to see snow! My feet are freezing on this tile floor - sorry northerners, I'm sure you all are a lot colder.

Question: Has anyone ever felt sick to their stomachs trying to figure out algebra problems? I have, today. David brought home a CD from a computer show last weekend and I thought I'd sit down and "play" with it today. I haven't felt this stupid for a while - and the cover says for ages 10 and up! I did get the right answers eventually, but wow, it has been a while and Mama's math is rusty.

What do you guys think? Is it just my feeble brain? Am I just out of practice? Math never was my best subject, but I can figure lots of stuff in my head at the drop of a hat. Maybe, the truth is I don't really care about math and if I did, I'd enjoy it.

Give me a good book with lots of words and day :) LOLOLOL

Anybody have any math stories???????????

----- Original Message -----
From: A. Yates
To: Unschooling
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 12:35 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today

From: "A. Yates" <hooperck@...>

It's quiet out there today. Is everyone out playing in the snow?
A

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26 Jan 2000, at 12:43pm

----- Original Message -----
From: A. Yates
To: Unschooling
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 12:35 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today

From: "A. Yates" <hooperck@...>

It's quiet out there today. Is everyone out playing in the snow?
A

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Brynn Panchot

26 Jan 2000, at 1:58pm

I wish we were playing in the snow! No snow here, about 35 miles North of
Seattle. It does look like it might clear up a bit, and it's not raining, so
we might go play in the garden beds later!

Any gardeners getting the itch?

Brynn

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Yates [mailto:hooperck@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 9:35 AM
To: Unschooling
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today

From: "A. Yates" <hooperck@...>

It's quiet out there today. Is everyone out playing in the snow?
A

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A. Yates

26 Jan 2000, at 2:04pm

ME! ME! ME! I've been knee deep in gardening books for a month. I just love
the planning, but only get around to a small fraction of it. Oh well.....

Brynn Panchot

26 Jan 2000, at 2:14pm

OH COOL!! I met a fellow gardener!! I'm an addict. I'm going to be getting
my leeks and some onions going pretty soon here... Do you start a lot from
seed? What do you grow? Do your kids get in on it?

B~

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Yates [mailto:hooperck@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today

From: "A. Yates" <hooperck@...>

ME! ME! ME! I've been knee deep in gardening books for a month. I just
love
the planning, but only get around to a small fraction of it. Oh well.....

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26 Jan 2000, at 2:42pm

In a message dated 1/26/2000 12:30:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
hooperck@... writes:

<< Is everyone out playing in the snow?
A >>

We were! the kids and I just built our very first snowman!

Love,

Jill, Wife and
Homeschooling Mom to Adam, Gregory, Sheila & Amy
Adopted Mom to Caesar, Penny, Jake, Boo-boo, Callie, Luna, Angel, Goku,
Couscous, Thumper and Magus
Independent Typing Contractor and Church Secretary

Thomas and Nanci Kuykendall

26 Jan 2000, at 4:54pm

>Jill, Wife and
>Homeschooling Mom to Adam, Gregory, Sheila & Amy
>Adopted Mom to Caesar, Penny, Jake, Boo-boo, Callie, Luna, Angel, Goku,
>Couscous, Thumper and Magus
>Independent Typing Contractor and Church Secretary

Are you an adoptive mom, or are those pets or something???

Nanci K.

Lynda

26 Jan 2000, at 5:08pm

We're gardening nuts here too. I have a million seed catelogs but finally
found a couple that guarantee no genetic engineering and all organic! Now,
I am waiting for the Brinks truck so I can order everything I want! We're
still pulling carrots and cutting broccoli and cauliflower out of the
garden and my dumb, and I mean DUMB raspberries decided that they weren't
going quite dormant this year so I have about a half dozen raspberries to
pick (well, o.k., so I mean eat on the way into or out of the garden <g>).

The kidlets each have their own garden section. The 16 yo is a flower nut
and has all kinds of different flowers in his garden. The 12 yo loves
beans, carrots and sunflowers in his. He grows all kinds of different
beans and some I haven't the foggiest idea where he got them! Youngest
kidlet is into strawberries and peas and whatever catches her fancy in the
books.

Lynda

----------

> From: "Brynn Panchot" <panchot@...>
>
> OH COOL!! I met a fellow gardener!! I'm an addict. I'm going to be

getting

> my leeks and some onions going pretty soon here... Do you start a lot

from

> seed? What do you grow? Do your kids get in on it?
>
> B~

A. Yates

26 Jan 2000, at 5:43pm

Well, since we are NC, we have lots of growing time. I haven't grown from
seed, since I can never find the time. Last year we were doing an addition,
and renovations, so gardening was nil. THis year I'm concentrating on
landscaping all around. I really enjoy it.
The kids do some, but they are still very young. We are going to try a
sunflower house this year. That should be fun.
A

Lynda

26 Jan 2000, at 10:22pm

I hide behind the "Redwood Curtain" in Humboldt County in Northern CA. For
folks who do the map thingy, that is exactly half way between the borders
of Mexico and Canada <g> Which I know because as the mummy to unschooling
kidlets, I am a storehouse of useless information <g>

I would think my berries were having an identity crisis if if weren't for
the fact that my trumpet fuschia are blooming and the hummingbirds haven't
migrated. I think we are in for a warm dry spell up here! Dry for us,
that is.

Lynda

----------
From: "Brynn Panchot" <panchot@...>

>
> WOW, where do you live that you've got berries? We have a bit of greens
> left, tatsoi, pac choy, collards, and chard, and a lot of cabbage, but

the

> berries are sleeping.....

Brynn Panchot

26 Jan 2000, at 10:50pm

WOW, where do you live that you've got berries? We have a bit of greens
left, tatsoi, pac choy, collards, and chard, and a lot of cabbage, but the
berries are sleeping.....

-----Original Message-----
From: Lynda [mailto:lurine@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 2:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today

From: "Lynda" <lurine@...>

We're gardening nuts here too. I have a million seed catelogs but finally
found a couple that guarantee no genetic engineering and all organic! Now,
I am waiting for the Brinks truck so I can order everything I want! We're
still pulling carrots and cutting broccoli and cauliflower out of the
garden and my dumb, and I mean DUMB raspberries decided that they weren't
going quite dormant this year so I have about a half dozen raspberries to
pick (well, o.k., so I mean eat on the way into or out of the garden <g>).

The kidlets each have their own garden section. The 16 yo is a flower nut
and has all kinds of different flowers in his garden. The 12 yo loves
beans, carrots and sunflowers in his. He grows all kinds of different
beans and some I haven't the foggiest idea where he got them! Youngest
kidlet is into strawberries and peas and whatever catches her fancy in the
books.

Lynda

----------

> From: "Brynn Panchot" <panchot@...>
>
> OH COOL!! I met a fellow gardener!! I'm an addict. I'm going to be

getting

> my leeks and some onions going pretty soon here... Do you start a lot

from

> seed? What do you grow? Do your kids get in on it?
>
> B~

metta

26 Jan 2000, at 11:40pm

on 1/26/00 9:43 AM, David & Betsy Wright at deejay@... wrote:

Question: Has anyone ever felt sick to their stomachs trying to figure out
algebra problems? I have, today. David brought home a CD from a computer
show last weekend and I thought I'd sit down and "play" with it today. I
haven't felt this stupid for a while - and the cover says for ages 10 and
up! I did get the right answers eventually, but wow, it has been a while
and Mama's math is rusty.

Hey, you're not in school and there's no time limit or teacher standing over
your desk with a red pen. ;-)

I feel that way sometimes though lately when I'm doing fractions with my 11
yo. He zips right past me and I'm still sitting there trying to remember the
algorithms I was taught so long ago. He hasn't been taught any algorithms. I
think that's why he's faster than me. ;-)

This gives me a chance to plug one of my favorite algebra resources
though... "The Algebra Survival Kit" by Josh Rappaport. He sends out a
free email newsletter every month which you might enjoy. His website is:
http://www.mathkits.com/

--
Thea <metta@...>

Brynn Panchot

27 Jan 2000, at 12:34am

Lynda,

Your kidlets are older than mine! Nicholas, age 9, is planning on potatoes
with bachelor's buttons in between this year. He was a stickler on that.
Emily, age 4, has a few different things planned, but they are so excited.
:-) We have bought mostly Territorial, Johnny's, and Seeds of Change in the
past, but we are going exclusively with Seeds of Change, except for a couple
of things.... also, I just heard that Ferry Morse has a new line of strictly
open pollinated seeds. I think the website was FerryMorse.com. not sure.
Think I'll go check it out now......

MMUUWWAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA <<<<-----evil laugh

Brynn

-----Original Message-----
From: Lynda [mailto:lurine@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 2:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today

From: "Lynda" <lurine@...>

We're gardening nuts here too. I have a million seed catelogs but finally
found a couple that guarantee no genetic engineering and all organic! Now,
I am waiting for the Brinks truck so I can order everything I want! We're
still pulling carrots and cutting broccoli and cauliflower out of the
garden and my dumb, and I mean DUMB raspberries decided that they weren't
going quite dormant this year so I have about a half dozen raspberries to
pick (well, o.k., so I mean eat on the way into or out of the garden <g>).

The kidlets each have their own garden section. The 16 yo is a flower nut
and has all kinds of different flowers in his garden. The 12 yo loves
beans, carrots and sunflowers in his. He grows all kinds of different
beans and some I haven't the foggiest idea where he got them! Youngest
kidlet is into strawberries and peas and whatever catches her fancy in the
books.

Lynda

----------

> From: "Brynn Panchot" <panchot@...>
>
> OH COOL!! I met a fellow gardener!! I'm an addict. I'm going to be

getting

> my leeks and some onions going pretty soon here... Do you start a lot

from

> seed? What do you grow? Do your kids get in on it?
>
> B~

Brynn Panchot

27 Jan 2000, at 12:39am

Ok, I found the site, it's www.ferry-morse.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Brynn Panchot [mailto:panchot@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 9:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today

From: "Brynn Panchot" <panchot@...>

Lynda,

Your kidlets are older than mine! Nicholas, age 9, is planning on potatoes
with bachelor's buttons in between this year. He was a stickler on that.
Emily, age 4, has a few different things planned, but they are so excited.
:-) We have bought mostly Territorial, Johnny's, and Seeds of Change in the
past, but we are going exclusively with Seeds of Change, except for a couple
of things.... also, I just heard that Ferry Morse has a new line of strictly
open pollinated seeds. I think the website was FerryMorse.com. not sure.
Think I'll go check it out now......

MMUUWWAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA <<<<-----evil laugh

Brynn

-----Original Message-----
From: Lynda [mailto:lurine@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 2:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today

From: "Lynda" <lurine@...>

We're gardening nuts here too. I have a million seed catelogs but finally
found a couple that guarantee no genetic engineering and all organic! Now,
I am waiting for the Brinks truck so I can order everything I want! We're
still pulling carrots and cutting broccoli and cauliflower out of the
garden and my dumb, and I mean DUMB raspberries decided that they weren't
going quite dormant this year so I have about a half dozen raspberries to
pick (well, o.k., so I mean eat on the way into or out of the garden <g>).

The kidlets each have their own garden section. The 16 yo is a flower nut
and has all kinds of different flowers in his garden. The 12 yo loves
beans, carrots and sunflowers in his. He grows all kinds of different
beans and some I haven't the foggiest idea where he got them! Youngest
kidlet is into strawberries and peas and whatever catches her fancy in the
books.

Lynda

----------

> From: "Brynn Panchot" <panchot@...>
>
> OH COOL!! I met a fellow gardener!! I'm an addict. I'm going to be

getting

> my leeks and some onions going pretty soon here... Do you start a lot

from

> seed? What do you grow? Do your kids get in on it?
>
> B~

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Debra Bures

27 Jan 2000, at 7:23am

We have been shoveling ...an hour and a half last night--we had at least 9"
of snow yesterday, and it's still snowing--an additional 6" this morning.
Got stuck in driveway yesterday afternoon--slid on top of a rock! Doesn't
seem to be any damage though... Kids are playing playing playing (me, too)
Debra in OHio

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brynn Panchot" <panchot@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 1:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today

> From: "Brynn Panchot" <panchot@...>
>
> I wish we were playing in the snow! No snow here, about 35 miles North of
> Seattle. It does look like it might clear up a bit, and it's not raining,
so
> we might go play in the garden beds later!
>
> Any gardeners getting the itch?
>
> Brynn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. Yates [mailto:hooperck@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 9:35 AM
> To: Unschooling
> Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Quiet today
>
>
> From: "A. Yates" <hooperck@...>
>
> It's quiet out there today. Is everyone out playing in the snow?
> A
>
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27 Jan 2000, at 1:49pm

In a message dated 1/27/2000 12:57:13 AM Central Standard Time,
lurine@... writes:

<< I would think my berries were having an identity crisis if if weren't for
the fact that my trumpet fuschia are blooming and the hummingbirds haven't
migrated. I think we are in for a warm dry spell up here! Dry for us,
that is. >>
I've noticed some spring-like things here (Eastern Iowa) as well. For
instance, there have been flocks of geese flying back north for about a month
now. That's really early! Also, my crocuses are starting to nudge their way
up around my mailbox. That's unheard of in the middle of an Iowa January.

**** Kim ****
runs with scissors