Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Need some proof that truth is not the most popular opinion?

That a lie, stinking and hideously embarrassing at its roots, can be cleverly spun and pose as fact, widely accepted by the undiscerning.

Here are a few examples: here and here to name just a few.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

planting

The girls planting potatoes..

Sam and Grandpa getting the dirt ready to plant

Friday, May 20, 2011

ESE

Her vocabulary includes ouch (which sounds pretty much like ouch), egg (geegg), chicken (chickee), cat (cat), horse (horse), dog (dog), duck (duck with a gutteral "ck" sound). She almost always sticky: sticky hands, sticky face, sticky shirt and pants. She loves making large (small) finger tracks in pans of bars sitting high on counters, unloading drawers of things that are most difficult to put away and can use a spoon right side up and can put on her own rubber boots. And she's a mere 18 1/2 months old.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

mistaken dialogue

Priya: Anneka, you're getting on my nerves

Anneka: I'm not getting in your herbs.

Priya: Nerves, not herbs. It means its annoying.

lambs and rhubarb

This guy is the last of nine lambs born in the last two weeks.

Anneka with her gingham fish house dress and apron helped cut up rhubarb. Yes, she is using a somewhat dullish knife.

Ellie helped too using a table knife.
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea ‘it is a little
one.’ There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little
weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will
soon be great. - J.C. Ryle