



Everything seems to be flowering profusely this year. I don't think that I've seen so many flowers on the Feijoa at one time, and the grape vine is only a sultana grape, but the bunches this year are HUGE. The Silky Oak in our back yard is spectacular, and the parrots haven't discovered it, yet, but I'm sure that they will, and when they do, our home will be a noisy cavalcade of hungry parrots. The roses have also been flowering abundantly, and their fragrance is delicious.
What else would you see in our back yard? Well, at the moment we also have a sleepy lizard - might be something to do with the amount of earwigs present in our back yard at present.

Now, where are those chooks?
They were in the back yard, but now they've migrated to the orange grove, and there must be some rather tasty earwigs up there because they've been there for positively ages.


I love how the chooks look as if they are playing follow the leader in the photo on the right. What I don't like is the small deposits that they leave on the concrete paths. Oh well, we can always hose off the concrete, but the chooks are doing an excellent job of demolishing the earwigs. Praise God for all of His creation, but especially chooks!
How did we go with our homeschooling review, you might ask?
Well, we showed examples of what we had accomplished over the past eighteen months, and then showed Sally our slideshow of photos for the year. The rest of the photos are in a Scrapbook for 2008.
What samples did we show?
- Cards that we had made
- Several projects for Social Studies
- Poetry Notebook
- Computer & Web Design projects
- Slide Show of our Scrap Book for 2009 made using jQuery Fancy Box
- Books Read
We discussed options for TAFE AND university, and what my son aspires to be when he leaves school. Then we also discussed the new healthy eating guidelines for South Australian schools and pre-schools. After this we discussed the Premier's Reading Challenge, which our children do not participate in, but they read voraciously. Next on the agenda was the Premier's be active CHALLENGE, which entails spending an hour a day in physical activity for all students from reception to year 9. I guess my daughter would qualify based upon biological age???
I thoroughly enjoyed Sally's visit today - I think that the more
All in all, it's been a great day - praise God for His goodness to usward!


















