Rainy Day Fun
Written by admin on February 26th, 2008I sure wanted my mulch delivered today, but the tree service got rained out.
It’s okay, though. My daughter and I decided that if we can’t plant outside, we’ll plant inside!
I bought a little Jiffy Greenhouse and a packet of shasta daisy seeds. 
We also chose some seeds from a collection that I keep in an old, green McCoy planter.
The seeds are tiny, even next to a sweet little hand. We planted three seeds into each Peat Pellet. Fun.
Planting shasta daisy seeds is serious business. We planted 3 seeds x 72 Peat Pellets, so that’s a lot of potential. 
Thankfully, I had already started supper earlier: a chunky, mostly-homemade spaghetti sauce with lots of bell pepper and onion and mushroom:
Venison Spaghetti Sauce
- 3 lbs ground venison, browned
- 1 large onion cut in chunks
- 1 large bell pepper cut in chunks
- 3 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 jar of whole mushrooms
- 2 jars of Classico 4-cheese pasta sauce
- crushed tomatoes to your preferred thickness and taste
- seasonings such as oregano, thyme, salt, pepper, etc. to your liking
Simmer it all for a couple of hours and serve over Barilla Plus thin spaghetti.
For dessert, my daughter and I made chocolate chip cookies. I could have eaten 10, but I only at 3, and they were SMALL!!!
I did swing by Goodwill today on the way to get laundry detergent. (We’ve been out for two days, so it’s Mt. Laundry at every turn.) I bought only one thing. I spent 52 cents. It was a beautiful Degas print of Dance Class. It is now on my kitchen cabinet with a bit of sticky-tack.
School Lessons: Joseph read a lot today (always at least a couple of hours) and wrote a poem today. He’s been talking about Edgar Allen Poe today. Oh, he also watched Dances with Wolves as part of our study of early American writing/Native Americans.
Oh, and we have our first worksheet on line. You’ll see the link at Dragon Speller. We’ll be adding to this regularly.
Lynn
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A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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The Usborne Internet-Linked Book of Knowledge
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