EKjourney Backup

I think we are finally finding our school groove as we begin week 5 of our homeschool year.  It was a bit of a rough start but we are settling into our routine, finding our rhythm with assignments and expectations, letting go of that summer freedom, and making progress rather than reviewing.   Brighton has even begun reading things like silent e and vowel teams, which I have not taught yet!!  It seems like it is starting to click for him.    Ducklings!  We are letting the baby ducks free range now that they are big and feathered out...this is quite the flock!  Now, to find a way to keep them from foraging on my plants!  We are getting a dozen eggs every 3 days or so. Phil is working on fencing when he can.  I was walking out to check in on him in the evening and the setting sun and waving grasses were just amazing.  I squatted down and took this picture at eye level with my cell phone. It is still tough to wake up in the morning. Br...

We have been studying Lewis and Clark since school stared and we finished our unit with a camping field trip to Astoria.   Things I found interesting: 1.  Sacagawea was 14 and pregnant when she first met Lewis and Clark.  Her "husband" who had purchased her (she was a captured slave) was 46 and had other wives.   2.  Lewis and Clark and their men ate up to 9 pounds of meat EACH when the game hunting was good. 3.  Lewis eventually committed suicide after the expedition.  4.  Clark raised Sacagawea's baby. 5.  Clark brought his slave, York, along with him.  He eventually set him free, years later.  York was forceable separated from his wife, also a slave, and died of cholera.  6.  In Lewis and Clark's time, the mouth of the Columbia was a mile East of what it currently is so the terrain must have looked a lot different.  Waiting in line at Bowpicker's Fish and Chips.  This was supposed to be a "famous" pl...