tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85991686924834148572024-03-14T00:37:50.888-04:00Flying SquirrelFlying Squirrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635867070248107938noreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599168692483414857.post-65158041420923251682019-02-04T18:04:00.000-05:002019-02-04T18:04:00.472-05:00Wooly things<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Really loving needle felting this winter. Raphael love astronomy and all things celestial, so I made him a solar system for Christmas. The little boy on the goose is Nils from the Wonderful Adventures of Nils. I made it for our little friend Nils. <br />
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<br />Flying Squirrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635867070248107938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599168692483414857.post-47165667763197454052019-01-19T21:08:00.001-05:002019-01-19T21:08:36.699-05:00chickenhausA little cheaty blogging about last year's project. Will is using young (growing) trees as posts for the more temporary structures. Das ist gud chickenhaus!<br />
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Flying Squirrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635867070248107938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599168692483414857.post-13600981932904911392018-12-06T15:34:00.001-05:002018-12-06T15:36:19.517-05:00St Nicholas's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fall is kind of still summer in Cape Breton. I realized the liberating truth that my boys are old enough to carry the kayaks. Still heavy, but we are much more mobile now. Now we have to learn to respect water, which can be dangerous here, between rip tides and big waves. I am now realizing the blessing of swimming lessons.</div>
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I took a herbal medicine class with the incredible Benna Keghoe and reacquainted myself with the joy of herbal practice. And below: the beautiful white beeswax from our first pry into the bee frames. A success! They survived! (making salves with beeswax here...)</div>
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Photographic proof of manual labour. (I peeled logs for an hour.) The barn is Will's project. I work off-farm at a local cafe to pay the bills. I'll probably work full time until the farm is making money. It's not the most romantic life. But we've planted the seeds. A foot in the community, a place, a name, eggs and honey for barter, new habits and new rhythms for the future, good, clean, nutrient-rich food for the table. People are thriving, so that's what matters right now.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well it was a wonderful, crazy, wild, disastrous, exhausting, satisfying summer: back-to-back house guests (whom we love, we really do!) from May to October and Will’s projects going full bore, building a smokehouse, building bee boxes, building up garden beds, and egads the food we’ve made, consumed, and cleaned up! To be honest it’s all a bit of a blur. It seems like we’ve been careening from disaster to disaster (</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">car disaster, plumbing disaster, water shortage, septic disaster, financial…</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">.and so on) and yet in retrospect, this summer has been filled with accomplishment, and now, at Thanksgiving, I can truly say I am thankful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also had wonderful fellowship and labour from friends old and new: a shed roof, digging out garden beds in the clay by the river: if that isn't proof of friendship, I don't know what is! </span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Their fleece is multi-coloured and multi-textured as with all Icelandic sheep. They have the loveliest, sweetest personalities, although they look devilish in pictures.</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This spring I attended a spinning workshop and discovered that spinning is harder than it looks. But I am determined to spin, ply, and knit a sweater for Will from the fleece of these dear silly animals whom he cares for so well. All about Icelandics<a href="http://www.isbona.com/index.php/about-icelandic-sheep" target="_blank"> here</a>. And sheep who live on seaweed <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seaweed-sheep-north-ronaldsay-orkney-festival" target="_blank">here</a>. Will and the boys collected sea weed for our sheep, and sure enough they've eaten a contractor bag full.</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Will and I have been reading and discussing and planning a composting toilet for over a year now. We read the <i>Humanure Handbook</i> which convinced me that under the right conditions (heat/time) a properly managed compost <i>will</i> break down pathogenic organisms. (I confess I was a skeptic.) But we didn’t have the time or courage to make the leap <i>until our septic system backed up and overflowed the kitchen sink! </i>Gah. Lovely. This led to three important discoveries: a) Will and I are strangely calm in the face of disaster. Maybe we’re<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>getting used to it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>b) Will can build a toilet alternative in two hours and is therefore my first pick for Man With Whom I’d Survive Zombie Apocalypse, and c) composting toilets aren’t that horrible. Ours smells like a forest floor, since that’s what we’re using for absorbing/covering. I predict that moss and leaf leaf litter does a better job neutralizing odours than water does.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This was how we celebrated solstice night. Fire, cake and wild strawberries, poetry (under duress, for some of us. I insisted.) beach sculpture, and handsprings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A new house, a new province, almost a new life…so much has happened these past few months since Will found his Cape Breton farm. After years of dreaming and planning we made an impulsive offer of purchase, a miraculous house sale, a wild and disastrous move with five children, four goats, a dog, a flat tire, two lost car keys, and —thankfully—a grandmother. (My intrepid mother came along as Baby Whisperer and kept Hermione happy while we drove for twenty hours.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our move was a series of disasters that made us doubt our sanity. Ah, but it was too late to change our minds. The house was already sold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> It was a giant, flying leap of faith to say good bye to everything familiar and a much-loved community and strike out to the rugged West coast of “darkest Cape Breton” as one friend puts it. We were lured here by cheap farm-land and the ocean climate, and we had no idea how awesome it would be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Somehow we’ve managed to land in an amazing community. Writers, artisans, and back-to-the-land style organic farmers, educated people seeking a quieter, more intentional life, market gardeners, young and full of energy and eager to network. Cape Bretoners are famous for their warmth and generosity and the reports are not exaggerated! We are putting down roots fast, with the warm welcome and inter-connectedness of this community. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The farm is Will’s dream. His vision includes food sustainability, organic soil practices, fruit tree grafting, seed saving, and “permaculture”. It’s been percolating along side of his PhD. We joke</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">that the longer he spends in academia the the more he wants to be a farmer. The soil here is dense clay but good for the kind of agriculture he’s interested in. This land has good bones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can’t say the farm is really my passion—I’m just along for the ride. And for the ocean. It’s impossible for pictures to convey the kind of energy that sparks out of these waves and air. I feel more ALIVE here than any other place. If I can create a healthy home for my children, make soap, make art, and spend as much time by the water as possible, I will be happy to stay here forever, however poor we may be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our boys started school in the local public school. Mixed feelings all around, rather predictably from William “long and boring”, Hugh, “yeah, it’s ok. I met some fun kids and my teacher’s nice.” And Matthias: “Totally epic!” Will is apprehensive since he hated school as a kid, but I really need the break. I remind him that our kids weren’t big on home school either. We were un-schoolers by default. Anyway, I told Will that even if they’re in public school we can still keep up their education. So we’ve been reading Greek Myths every night and going through our favourite history book for children. Nice art and written as a kind of conversation between author and child. We have a great little library right around the corner from our house where we load up on our current interests: sea coast flora and fauna, Greek mythology, Robertson Davies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The goats are thriving too. Henrietta the One-Horned Wonder, born this spring, is almost grown. Helm, our gentle, handsome little buck, is doing his duty and Josephine and Heloise are bred; new kids and new milk later this fall. They have the run of an overgrown apple orchard so they are in heaven. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are no stores here other than grocery and hardware. We are almost two hours drive from the two bigger towns in Cape Breton with the big box stores. No internet at the house, either. The result is a kind of post-consumer, post-technology detox. My mind is clearer, days are more productive and creative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is so much to do here, community-wise, we can hardly keep up. I’m trying to paint my house as usual. Paint colours blah blah blah….this shade….agonize….that shade….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is my progress so far. Little things keep interrupting like Front Porch Peter (our CSA neighbour who is the best) bringing by a billion pounds of zucchini and daikon radish. Food is expensive here so I didn’t say no. I hope he REALLY likes kimchi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course I envisioned our house being painted in our first week: Will and I working side by side while our children entertained themselves in the long grass like Laura Ingalls Wilder. But fortune doesn’t favour the mother of screaming one-year-olds bent on self-destruction and Will has been problem-solving since day one when our well went dry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Still, what is life for but work ? And creativity and play? This is what we love, and Cape Breton is a wonderful environment for doing what we love.</span></div>
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It's been a long few weeks. Will is on the East Coast scouting out prospects as we plan for the Great Unknown Post-PhD Future. We're crossing every finger and a few toes too.<br />
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(I think he's also having a great time.)<br />
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Mary is wishing the animals would just butcher, wrap, and pop themselves into the freezer. I knew goats were pesky but I forgot that they are diabolical and can actually fly.<br />
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The prospect of selling the house is terrifying and exciting. I am using Will's absence as an excuse to purge and downsize without anyone saying, "Hey, I was saving that for the kids." I might even paint some walls. There's also nobody to remind me that it takes a lot of gas money to drive to Ottawa, so we've done a few trips and bought some very necessary organizational furniture. (I feel like I'm going to confession right now....)<br />
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It's still Orthodox Lent around here, and this year I'm trying to be very sombre and focused, so no movies or music...for me. The kids are being fuelled with Ninjago. We get quite a lot of firewood and animal chores out of one episode. I monitor them to make sure they haven't lost their appetite for more elevated art, but a few weeks of crap diet hasn't done too much damage. And it has inspired a whole lot of improvised martial arts and an interest in kanji too. I love both Japanese and Chinese alphabets so it's lovely to find scraps of paper, maps, secret messages strewn about! And all that zany humour...very good for the morale during this last stretch of winter.<br />
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I am listening to Ancient Faith Radio podcasts while I work and really enjoying the ramblings of Fr. Thomas Hopko. He has a talk on the Sermon on the Mount which knocked me off my chair last year. (This is the time of year when I come face-to-face with my humanity....and realize just how far I have to go on this Christian journey.)<br />
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Oh yes, and egg candles!<br />
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One year ago I posted a picture of me at twenty weeks pregnant. I'm a little bit horrified to notice that this year I look exactly the same. Oh the timely austerity of Lent.<br />
Not unrelated: this is goat milk butter, curtesy of Hannah and Josephine, our lovely ladies in the barn. <br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">This, my friends, is bullet proof coffee made with goat milk butter. It is something between dense whipped cream and whipped butter, but sweeter. You need a cream separator to collect cream from goat's milk as it's naturally homogenized. Then we churn it by hand. Will and I often joke about our posh life....calculating the cost of labour and milk, we are eating forty dollar pats of butter. Ha! We're rich! You just can't put a price tag on some things.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoHF9k4QlxQ-RI4DdTXV7qAc2Ns5UfrvD8TfTP710bYzqVr3biMCi8Hap86P4QqjhA7vZBj_1ZipGHMiXOY100XUxF4a7NNSdKRUO0ZqR6eFIIDxDr3j8JVY8XXvKZa5_gKizpkcO9x4/s1600/DSC_0058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoHF9k4QlxQ-RI4DdTXV7qAc2Ns5UfrvD8TfTP710bYzqVr3biMCi8Hap86P4QqjhA7vZBj_1ZipGHMiXOY100XUxF4a7NNSdKRUO0ZqR6eFIIDxDr3j8JVY8XXvKZa5_gKizpkcO9x4/s640/DSC_0058.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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What with all the babies being born, it's time to get knitting again!<br />
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I can't seem to stop knitting these. They knit up fast and are just so chubby and adorable. <span style="font-family: inherit;">I do find the ankles a bit tight, but consumer feedback tells me this keeps them on baby's feet. </span></div>
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Built the Code of Hammurabi out of cardboard and black paint and, when they ran out of black paint, charcoal. It was a beautiful cooperative effort.</div>
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They carefully copied the image from the top of the famous stele. Hammurabi is receiving his right to rule from the god Shamash. Then they copied it by eye with white oil pastel.<br />
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Each child came up with ten rules for the house which must be written on the stele and obeyed. The Code commands that if we spill the compost, we must pick it up with our teeth, if we do not eat our vegetables, we must eat more dessert...<br />
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Below, Hugh and Kai demonstrate how the Code came to be: Hammurabi spake, and it was written.<br />
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I read aloud the fabulous, juicily poetic children's version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, <i>Gilgamesh the Hero</i> by Geraldine McCaughrean. I highly recommend it! It was the basis for the most entertaining and philosophical conversations we've ever had about life, death, immortality, love, friendship, grief, courage. And it really is an exciting story.<br />
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The author muffs up the character of Siduri, the wine seller at the edge of the world. Siduri, in my opinion, holds the key to Gilgamesh's quest. In McCaughrean's version Siduri is a fat, tipsy buffoon who doesn't care about lofty quests for immortality. I went to the original epic to find the real Siduri, whose wisdom unlocks the problem of Gilgamesh's obsession with immortality.<br />
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but life they retained in their own keeping.<br />
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fill your belly with good things;<br />
day and night, night and day, dance and be merry,<br />
feast and rejoice.<br />
Let your clothes be fresh,<br />
bathe yourself in water,<br />
cherish the little child that holds your hand,<br />
and make your wife happy in your embrace;<br />
for this too is the lot of man.<br />
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Immortality might be outside of our grasp in this life, but the present moment can be luminous—this too is the lot of man!<br />
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Once again, soap! This is going to be a yearly tradition (along with eggnog, yes) because I can't get enough of this beautiful substance.<br />
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I just made one batch this year. The big excitement was using tallow from our own goats. Goat tallow is every bit as disgusting as it sounds. Hugh's solution was quite sensible while it was rendering in a crock pot. After straining it and storing it, however, it was virtually odourless. It stored well, too—almost three months at room temperature without any sign of rancidity. I melted it down and mixed it with olive oil and coconut oil and the soap turned out perfect, just the right texture and very nourishing for the skin.<br />
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I scented the soap with essential oils that a friend gave me for laundry soap...ravensara (which smells a bit like eucalyptus), mint, and orange essential oils. The little brown bits are balsam fir needles which I pulsed in the coffee grinder. I was hoping they would add scent to the soap, but alas. For exfoliation purposes only.<br />
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I really wished the Christmas season would never end. It only just started to be cozy after Christmas when the snow finally fell. Will and I are in a season of total exhaustion, so reading by the light of the Christmas tree was good soul medicine.<br />
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I didn't make any handmade Christmas presents this year, as I decided that simplicity and sanity was more valuable than my ideals of handmade. I barely did any decorating or baking. We ordered everyone's presents from Amazon in November and consequently had a peaceful Christmas.<br />
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We won't always have a nursing, sleep-defying baby. Next year I will glam it up. But I was kind of edified that, for us, Christmas magic lies in the traditions we love best: sleeping under the Christmas tree (the kids), putting baby Jesus in the manger, chai tea, singing carols in candle light.<br />
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We make our own with maple syrup and farm eggs and milk. I'm already looking forward to next Christmas.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> 1 litre milk</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> 2-3 egg yolks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> 1/2 cup maple syrup</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> blend well until thin liquid</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> separately, pour </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">1/4 cup boiling over:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> 1/2 tsp cloves</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">for by it, those who worshipped the stars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">were taught by a star to adore Thee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">the Sun of Righteousness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">and to know Thee, the Orient from on high. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">O Lord, glory to Thee."</span><br />
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I finally got around to making a nature table for the children. I've been admiring beautiful Waldorf seasonal tables <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=waldorf%20nature%20table&rs=rs&term_meta%5B%5D=waldorf%7Crecentsearch%7C1&term_meta%5B%5D=nature%7Crecentsearch%7C1&term_meta%5B%5D=table%7Crecentsearch%7C1">like these</a> and for years. Our children bring a steady stream of natural treasures into the house: cool rocks, birds' nests, skulls. Actually its more of a bone collection than a Waldorf display, but thats OK, we need a few <i>memento mori</i> around. So now we have a place to put our skulls and branches, as well as our field guides and seasonal books.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Hugh is really into. He's taken up needle-felting and is a big fan of gnomes and woodland animals. He scans his big photographic National Geographic animal books for fresh ideas. Above, bald eagle.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I change the nature table at night while the children sleep, to preserve the mystery. Also, I can quietly throw out the bottle caps and unidentified flotsam that the boys deposit everywhere. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">And finally: TIS THE SEASON! After a record green December, January snow! Hurray for cross-country skiing! </span><br />
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And so a new year begins.<br />
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The boys are gearing up for a production of Macbeth! We have friends who are <i>real </i>home schoolers—they found a script for Macbeth that is modified for children with a few extra parts (the Scottish play is a bit short on female roles) but uses Shakespearean lines for the most part. We are so excited! it embraces the Pemberton boys' greatest loves: friends, sword-fighting, fighting, costumery, speaking in a bad Scottish accent, and, so I am informed, playing the jaw harp The boys have been pouring over the lines and of course we do not mention the Scottish play by name. <i>We care about our safety. </i></div>
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Here's to a new semester of life, love, and learning!</div>
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They are Jethro Tull and Jabez. We name our animals alphabetically as we acquire them, and the offspring have the same letter as their mother. "Thus Josephine bore Jabez and Jethro, whilst her daughter Jacobina bore Jorungard. " You see? It has a musical ring to it. This helps us keep the dynasties straight.</div>
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So far our bucks have all been named for literary villains: Moriarty, Ivan the Terrible, and Fosco after Count Fosco in the <i>Moonstone</i>. But I drew the line at Jack the Ripper and said let's name them after a band and a family ancestor instead. I tell you, it is much more fun naming animals than humans.</div>
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A wave of jaw harp (Jew's harp) mania has swept through our house, thanks to<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SpWuseQGys"> this cool theatre duo </a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDnio2axqNI">this crazy guy</a> (Ozzy Osbourne alert) and a little help from youtube. The boys have been cutting up our old health cards and membership cards for homemade jaw harps. The sound of flapping plastic isn't quite as cool as the real thing but Christmas is coming and stockings need stuffing.</div>
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Celebrating Hermione's symbolic death and resurrection in Christ, at Christ the Saviour Orthodox church in Ottawa. Her baptism was full of grace and love and the holiness of the sacrament. We were blessed to have the parish choir surrounding us with song (the musical tradition of the Eastern Church is really incredible, and this church has an amazing choir). Typically the whole parish shows up and shouts <i>Sealed!</i> for the chrismation...a powerful reminder that the body of Christ is a human body made of human members, as well as a mystical body. An organic unity.<br />
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Our journey to Eastern Christianity has been marked by what Will and I keep noticing as a<i> peaceful integration</i> between the human and divine, between tradition and charisma, between holiness and practicality, truth and love, past and present.<br />
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I would like to write more about it, but for now we are just basking in the glow of our tiny newborn saint.Flying Squirrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635867070248107938noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599168692483414857.post-12118741254458635332015-10-15T23:06:00.002-04:002015-10-16T13:11:25.589-04:00Mirkwood and such<br />
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Matthias's birthday falls on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. We are shameless Tolkien fans here. So much so, that Will would not allow me to name one of our beloved family dogs after Tolkien, because it was sacrilegious or something.<br />
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I foresee a lifetime of hobbit-themed birthday parties for Matthias. (Fortunately he is fond of hobbits so far.) Hugh made an enormous spider web out of string for the party-goers to hack down. It was pretty cool. We failed, alas, to get a photo of the Smaug that Willy painted for the partiers to shoot with bow and arrows. He also made some dangerous wooden arrows and I was terrified that one of our small guests would get shot. They kept wandering into the path of the arrows and I kept having to sweep them aside.<br />
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Will's garden was an overflowing cornucopeia of jungle this year, such a joy in late summer. As I write frost has taken down most of it, but we are still eating the kale and cabbages (yum! Or not...) calendula and cilantro. Cilantro is amazing. It makes Quick-Do-Something-With-The-Tomatoes-Before-They-Rot salsa taste awesome, and it doesn't seem to die. How does a plant that grows so happily in Mexico and Vietnam survive frost in Canada? Magic, I say.<br />
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Life with a new baby is mostly a blur, but there are many bright little moments too. Thank you, cameras, for freezing time for us so we can hang on to these for a little while.</div>
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Hermione is still tiny and precious. You'd think after five children we'd be getting tired of all this baby care, but honestly, I think it just gets sweeter. In fact, when I look back to how stressed out we were parenting our first child, I'd even venture to say that it's easier now.</div>
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I think that if you learn anything after 11 years, it's that time whooshes by too quickly. I'm even savouring (maybe more like toughing) the sleepless nights, knowing that all too soon Mio won't even want to cuddle any more. Rafe has already gone on strike. No more baby. Not even pats on the head. He is so cute yet so dignified, we're hard put to treat him with graveness...</div>
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We have started home schooling again. What a monkey circus! Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing more harm than good. But Will is very encouraging, always pointing out that we have happy children. When I fret about the academics moving at a snail's pace, that is precisely the moment that a child comes to me and says, Hey mom, I'm memorizing the Periodic Table, or <i>beg </i>me to please, please read History to him! Or after months of fighting over math lessons, to find that a child can effortlessly calculate in real life. Then Will and I look at each other knowingly, as if to say, <i>Don't you dare let on that this is educational! </i></div>
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Will is writing his thesis proposal and cutting and stacking the winter's firewood, planning our fall renovations. (Our finances come and go in big chunks, so as soon as the student loans come in it's GO TIME). </div>
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<i>Real</i> home schooling, not just pretending that creative play and all-day art is an academic achievement!<br />
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The last precious photos of Matthias pre-haircut and the first of the firewood.<br />
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Winter soon! We're learning to roll with the seasons. To acknowledge the glory of the present moment. To breathe deep when the chaos overwhelms us.<br />
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My winter's project is: learn to be a good house keeper and cut down on chaos. It's only taken eleven years and five children to realize that good housekeeping is possible, just counter-intuitive (for me). But it's never too late.<br />
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I've decided that the first step is to give away everybody else's stuff.<br />
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My other winter's project: re-visit the Plays of Shakespeare. I'm starting with Winter's Tale because there's a character named Hermione.<br />
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And speaking of Hermione...<br />
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Swoon! Sweet baby, I love you so much my heart will burst!Flying Squirrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635867070248107938noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599168692483414857.post-42279263935192486752015-07-17T17:34:00.002-04:002015-07-17T17:35:47.379-04:00Hermione<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oh, the making and doing, crafting and cleaning that's going on here! It's like the whole family has caught my nesting fever. I am ten days overdue, but not for lack of trying.</div>
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Reaching it is a bit of a problem for the short people. Will basically has to hold them because even if they can do pull-ups on the monkey bars at the park, I have this rule about not falling to your death here. Not in my living room. Not before the baby comes.</div>
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Eeek! So exciting! This one I made myself. Seafaring Uncle and Auntie sent me a beautiful hammock from New Zealand when Raphael was born. (It's hanging in the living room) But I wanted an upstairs <i>and</i> a downstairs hammock. So after some reading online (there are lots of pictures of finished products, but very few instructions anywhere), studying it by eyeball, and a trip to the fabric store (3 yards of sturdy cotton) and the hardware store (a spring, a ring, a carabiner, and a ring bolt for ceiling), I made a supersize one for our bedroom. </div>
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We have adopted some chicks which cruel Mother Nature orphaned on our farm. I'm having a hard time not anthropomorphizing our animals, remembering they might only live a short while. Still, with such soothing company as Will doing yoga (I literally stumbled upon this scene in the early morning light....quiet music, forward stretch, chick...)<br />
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This was a little project I made for Rafe. All our children love the fishing game ubiquitous at outdoor play parties...you know, the little plastic rod and magnetic sea creatures in the kiddie pool. My older kids willingly line up with the toddlers to get their turn. We've gone through a few crappy little sets from the dollar-store, and always ended sweeping them into the bin.<br />
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So I made some fabric fishes for Raphael for Christmas. Amazingly, they've lasted almost six months. They are lightly padded with cotton batting and quilted with a few large stitches of embroidery thread. A little magnet sits in it's nose, held in by a few stitches.<br />
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It keeps everyone busy on a rainy afternoon.Flying Squirrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635867070248107938noreply@blogger.com2