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Butterfly Garden – Part 1
Thanks to Erik’s wonderful Grade 1 teacher, Mrs. McCaw, we are very excited about butterflies here. It all started in September when Erik started school and Mrs. McCaw had so many Monarch butterfly...
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Butterfly Garden Part 2
The kids and I saw a Monarch butterfly flitting around our new butterfly garden today! It was flying around and I’m not sure what it was doing, but it touched every milk-weed plant in the garden....
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Oats peas beans and barley grow…
They do grow, but not in my garden because frankly there just wouldn’t be room! Yes, this year because I don’t have enough things to occupy my time, I’m a proud partner and care-taker of a massive...
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The miracle of a potato
We took advantage of the warm weather we are having this week and my uncle John and I harvested our potato crop. Now, can I just say how much fun it is to watch the pitch-fork go down and wait with...
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Neat Notes
I really thought that I would be blogging more again this summer, what with all the time that I have at home just hanging out with the kids. It turns out that days in the summer just fly by whether...
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Monarchs!
We love Monarch butterflies and every year for the past 6 years (minus Ava’s year) we have raised a few from eggs that were laid on the milkweed in our garden. We were sad to learn that this year the...
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