🍁 2022 Thirty-Seventh Week 🐘

September 27, 2022Leave a comment

“There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.“ – Terry Goodkind 🕊️

GOALS THIS WEEK: Start thinking about a paperwork day.

Last Week: Getting soil beds ready for pumpkins.

This Week: Continuing to garden.

HEALTH OVERVIEW:

Mental Health: Guilty about everything I didn’t do, overwhelmed by everything I want to do, enjoying working on projects, but scared I won’t finish as much as I want to finish.

Physical Health: Doing a lot better, crossing my fingers I won’t catch this same flu x3 (x2 was enough I hope).

Social Health: Uber into gardening, trying to finish up projects, pathway part B on Sunday maybe, pumpkin, watermelon, tomatoes hopefully going in soon.

LIFE JOURNAL:

“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
– Roberto Assagioli

“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.”

–Mary Anne Radmacher

Saturday: Last week another “mulch party”. This week going to check on a project left unfinished. Hoping to put in a lot of watermelons and pumpkins. So did work on both projects, planted more watermelon, pumpkins, and sunflowers, used some bamboo I grew to put up my first fence, a weak garden fence, but it sets off the area the kids are supposed to stay inside of at least. Baited for LFA at two gardens. I was really in a flow state with bamboo and jute twine. Kind of did some kaizen stuff with organizing after doing the permaculture stuff, it feels better to do the garden stuff. Pizza Recipe 🍕.

Sunday: Last week I moved the small plants out of the patio and onto a medium plant staging area. This week it feels like a long time has passed since last week, I moved about 40 of the pumpkins out of the staging area into the community. I was teaching the second set of 5 letters of Japanese and some math, it was nice. It was kind of a rainy sleepy day. I calculated most seeds I grow cost $0.04, the bags cost $0.05, the soil costs a lot more $0.45, but dropping off plants anywhere kind of costs $10 with gas at $5/gallon, and my car only gets 18 miles/gallon and we live about 30 miles out of town… so 60 miles round trip and that takes at least 3 gallons, so it’s noticeable now, yet thankfully I can still do it for now. $0.54 per plant is my average cost growing from seed right now, if I had better natural soil it would be $0.09 but the difference almost doesn’t matter alongside the $10-15 it costs to deliver anything anywhere. I am toying with the notion of becoming a lavender farm right now, who knows what the future holds for anyone? I enjoyed moving pumpkins along the line to fill the gap where the ones that got planted were taken from, I still have four little tables of pumpkins, tomatoes doing well and a full table of watermelon with some herbs, and morning glories. My rosemary is doing horrible, but my friend’s rosemary is doing well (I could steal some!). I have more serrano pepper than I probably need coming up, and finally some cilantro, some green onion planted, and some pumpkin and butter lettuce. I’ll miss my plants when I leave.

Monday: Last week cut a pathway through the woods and my son did piano and Spanish homework for the first time, he was so cute and happy. This week I feel very unsettled, I feel like life is off kilter for some reason. I’m trying to get my house in order, mentally and actually, and I know I have paperwork waiting and my social life even though I enjoy it, is draining me, so I feel conflicted about where I can spend less energy and time to be able to do the things I need to do and I don’t really know what matters the most or what to do first. I’m thinking of a leaking boat and I’m the boat.

Tuesday: Last week I was trying to work out the school schedule, this week it’s already not working, but that’s okay. Been gardening, starting seeds, transferring seeds to soil, clearing places, at night swings came, we made them with the kids, but the kids lost one nut so it’s going to be a longer process to assemble them, which is okay, just feels like every process surrounding the home becomes a long process.

Wednesday: Last week we placed the sites for pumpkin and watermelon got a de-slugging station set up. Wednesday it was a nice day at the beach overall, brought some roma tomatoes, we had the math decathlon, which was nice, yet also there was some conflict which I hope we can better avoid in the future. It’s hard to say, yes I had fun with the kids making oil and water stuff, but at the same time things happened that were not positive also, so it’s hard to find a way to phrase that there was good and bad, and it’s a bit hard to accept that my most peaceful place was less peaceful, but that’s reality, the good with the bad.

Thursday: Last week I the pumpkin patch soil went in (Friday), this week we planted Crook Neck Squash and Nasturtiums and put copper mesh around the growing areas, so that was really cool because it went from an idea to a reality very fast, I didn’t think the seeds would arrive and germinate so fast, it seems like it went from idea to reality in a week. Dropped off some roses, which was cool, I never appreciated roses much, but these Double Red Knockout Roses are so vibrant a red here next to the vivid green of Hawaii.

Friday: Last week we had a super cool rainbow cake. Doing some paperwork really felt like it bogged down the day, we also made cookies, pizza and started a student on Duolingo, which is nice, but the paperwork somehow dominated everything. It was fun letting the kids play a bit more car racing then normal. I think it’s not just paperwork being draining, yet also that it reminds me of my guilt over not doing more paperwork…

How’s it Growing?

Cherry Blossom – Cold stratified, paper towel. Getting moldy doing a hydrogen peroxide soak. ⌛

Lavender – Cold stratified, Germinated in weeks via paper towel with heat and light. They are sprouting bit by bit, seedlings look fine. 👍🏼

Sunflower – Germinated in 3 days after 24 hour soak. Grown. Distributed. Growing well. 👍🏼

Morning Glory – Germinated in 1 day via cup of water, moved to paper towels > grow bags. Grown. Distributed. Growing well. 🌱 They look good some are vining now.

Roma Tomato – Germinated in 2 days via papertowel. Grown. Distributed. Looking good. 👍🏼

Clover, Alfalfa – For the Hilo Garden A. 🔮

Blueberry – Germinating…

Raspberry – Germinating… seem all gross, not sure if it’s just the way the seed capsule is.

Something new this week: Macadamia Nut milk is okay, ran out of everything else, used it for baking, coffee ext, it was fine.

Something good this week: Toned down on the spending by buying 7 bags of steer manure instead of 20, it was nice to start gardens, yet it’s good to reign it in.

Something unexpected: I’m so into gardening again after being not into it for awhile, I don’t know what makes me hate or love gardening so much more or less, but sometimes it feels magical and other times pointless.

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🍁 2022 Thirty-Sixth Week 🍰

September 17, 2022Leave a comment

“Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.“ – Terry Goodkind 🕊️

GOALS THIS WEEK: Get better and take invetory.

Last Week: Trying to germinate pumpkin, watermelon, lavender, and cherry blossom.

This Week: Did germinate pumpkin and watermelon. Lavender, and cherry blossom still cold stratifying.

HEALTH OVERVIEW:

Mental Health: Trying to do the paperwork for our 501 soon.

Physical Health: Whole house sick again, but it’s passing a lot faster this second time.

Social Health: Still super into gardening, trying to finish up projects, pathway, pumpkin, watermelon, tomatoes specifically.

LIFE JOURNAL:

“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
– Roberto Assagioli

“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.”

–Mary Anne Radmacher

Saturday: Three weeks ago I grafted cherry tomato from my first year here onto an avocado tree in my daughter’s square-foot garden, last week my daughter said thank you, this week it has failed, but we will try again. I’ve added new soil to the square foot garden already, this week another “mulch party” we did so 10 bags this time, it was cool, did a good job, layed down 2 bags of straw on the second half of the project going to tarp that down with weed cloth soon. Tried out the mini chain saw for guava wood, wow it’s hard wood, but the mini chain saw works well. Worked on the lawn a little.

Sunday: Last week we put our fall indoor lights up, which felt tiring but good. It felt good when people came over and noticed the change. I moved the small plants out of the patio and onto a medium plant staging area I cleared. Reseeded the grass lawn and cut more levels. When I sit on the grass and hand cut it I feel like a little Pickmen and it’s a really fun feeling.

Monday: Last week went to the zoo with a pack of kids. This week cut a pathway through the woods, cleaning the patio and trying to organize the seedlings. Ordered my daughter’s birthday stuff, which is mentally draining, but glad it is done. Started the day with spooky Singing Walrus songs it was fun. My 4lb hammer came in the mail, it feels awesome. My son did piano and Spanish homework for the first time, he was so cute and happy.

Tuesday: Last week we planted about 80 pumpkins and about 80 watermelons. This week I have a bit of a runny nose, I am supposed to go shopping. I should take out the trash. I’ve been up since about 4AM looking at pictures of tree houses. My son started not drinking milk at night a few days ago and my daughter sleeps in her own bed most the week now, so I’m getting better sleep finally. 90% I’m happy to be getting better sleep, 10% I am sad that my kids are growing so fast, it does feel like I didn’t slow down and enjoy them much because I was rushing to do the laundry, shopping, cooking and recover from it all. There is some regret, but also we are all moving on and learning new skills and becoming better people together. I learned to cook and play violin, my son to use the computer and read and do math, my daughter learned Spanish, manners and a lot of reading and science.

Trying to do more with the day, school is going well, but trying to add more cleaning and exercise now that meals are more under control. Sleep > school > meals > exercise > cleaning tends to be how I get life in order.

Me, exercise at 11, cleaning at 3, school at 7, 8, 10, 2.

SCHOOL – 7 AM Advanced Learning: math+ on the computer with my son, then 8 AM Review Learning: daughter, math, reading, language, coding, piano, while my son reviews meet the math facts, 10 AM Fun Learning, Singing Walrus songs and more playful school and outside, then 2 PM Deep Learning/Integration like civilization games, cooking, gardening ext.

EXERCISE – It’s been a long time since we exercised much… exercised with the kids at 11, it helps to have a schedule. We did Alphabet Exercise it was okay, not easy, but not hard, medium for coming off not exercising.

CLEANING – This is a new routine. We vacuumed and mopped before exercising, it makes a big difference, I was on a spot under the chairs and got all itchy, but then cleaned it and was fine, I’m not uber sensitive, but I am sensitive. Finished washing and making the beds, that always feels crazy hard…

Wednesday: Last week did martial arts, which felt nice. This week I want to teach fractions so I’m not going to teach martial arts, even though I’m tempted to teach martial arts, if I do no one else is going to teach fractions and the math decathlon is next week, so that won’t do. I prepared the fractions materials and I’m going to do it. So I did talk to a few students about fractions, which was cool, not everyone, but it was good. Taking the day off of martial arts was really nice, I had more fun in the water not having it hanging over my head, it was a beautiful day. We placed the sites for pumpkin and watermelon got a de-slugging station set up. REMINDER TO SELF – BRING SWORD AND CHESS BOARD NEXT WEEK.

Thursday: Last week I weeded around my daughter’s playhouse, this week I should weed the rest of that area for my pumpkin patch. It’s raining, I picked up 20 bags of steer manure compost and dropped them off. At home we made Sugar Spun Run’s pizza dough, pizza with olives and bacon, made cranberry muffins as muffins and cake and made lime tofu pie.

Friday: Last week we made strawberry cake and did piano. This week we had rainbow cake, lime pie, cranberry muffins, and curry. Put in 200 gallons of good soil to two grow beds, took two loads of trash out, and brought two loads of soil into the garden, so it was a cool balance in a way. Really looking forward to continuing in this garden, had three kids under six watering the new plants and planting in the pumpkins, which is pretty awesome, maybe later the older ones will get involved.

How’s it Growing?

Cherry Blossom – Cold stratified, paper towel. ⌛

Lavender – Cold stratified, paper towel. ⌛

Sunflower – Germinated in 3 days after 24 hour soak in cup of water, sprouting well. Grown. Distributed. Extra growing. 👍🏼 Mine are fine. Northeastern Site doing excellent. Southeast gone, overeaten by rabbit.

Morning Glory – Germinated in 1 day via cup of water, moved to paper towels, moved to grow bags. Grown. Distributed. Extra growing. Planted in my front garden too. 🌱 They look good some are vining now.

Roma Tomato – Germinated in 2 days via paper towel. Grown, doing well almost reading to distribute. 👍🏼

Clover, Alfalfa – For the Hilo Garden A. 🔮

Something new this week: Daughter having first sleepover, it’s comfortable more than I expected, but definitely a little sentimental.

Something good this week: New community garden going in, a good place to distribute plants, and maybe a great precursor to our art garden we hope to build someday.

Something unexpected: I didn’t know I would learn so much about pest control from our scout group, I was hoping I would, but I didn’t know it, since learning about cabbage moths I may be able to protect my pumpkins better this year, maybe have my own pumpkin patch for the first time. So thankful for people who share knowledge freely.

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🍁 2022 Thirty-Fifth Week 🦥

September 13, 20222 Comments

“Kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm.” – Terry Goodkind 🕊️

GOALS THIS WEEK: Just survive the flu and don’t worry about the future.

Last Week: Spouting sunflower and rhubarb.

This Week: Trying to germinate pumpkin, watermelon, lavender, and cherry blossom.

HEALTH OVERVIEW:

Mental Health: Got to get the math decathlon details ironed out.

Physical Health: Whole house sick again, exercised Sunday, danced Sunday, did push-ups/gymnastics Wednesday, gardening Thursday and Friday somewhat tired/sore, but also feel a bit better/energized from exercising too.

Social Health: Very inspired to be gardening with my friends, trying to see their visions and bypass mistakes I’ve made for their gardens, it’s weird and humbling to see the landscape different from where I shaped it outside of my own home.

LIFE JOURNAL:

“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
– Roberto Assagioli

“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.”

–Mary Anne Radmacher

Saturday: Two weeks ago I grafted cherry tomato from my first year here onto an avocado tree in my daughter’s square-foot garden, this week my daughter said thank you. Last week I wanted to add new soil and turn the soil, but I needed more vermiculite and also wanted more compost, this week I have them mixed in a big storage box in the car, so that’s cool.

Sunday: Last week I exercised again, for 25 minutes. This week I was sick, so I didn’t exercise. I didn’t know how I would finish the projects I started. I did want to mulch, I relate fall and mulch. We put our fall indoor lights up, which felt tiring but good.

I like how the old grow bags blend to the tree bark, trying to use this tree as a planter for morning glories, not at all sure how much soil they need but trying anyways.

Hoping A the copper tape keeps slugs out and B I remember to keep the surrounding weeds off it in the case it does work.

Hoping the dish scrubber keeps slugs off long enough for the plant to be able to lose leaves and still thrive or at least survive.

Trying this system to water the tomato roots while keeping the leaves dry, the idea was from Grow, Cook, Eat, then I can also add a trellis there too.

The center tree has a tomato graft, I should have left the plastic on it longer, but didn’t so now the leaves are very dry… not sure if the graft will fail or work, but going to wait and see, it’s my first graft anyways, I’m glad I tried. My son has a new orange tree, first time mulching with rocks, don’t know if that is good or bad yet, these rocks are a little salty, don’t know if they will keep slugs off or not. It’s nice to have my daughter’s square foot garden still, it reminds me why I garden. For fun, to do something with my daughter and to leave something of who I was in the garden. The bamboo dried out from neglect mostly, some of the base roots are alive still, I’ll turn what is left to support for morning glory or tomato.

Cutting back weeds is a time to level out the extreme slope from high to low, whatever path gets layed someday will be easier with a level slope.

This is one of the most enjoyable spots for me, really unfinished and overgrown now, but something about it, there are a ton of wild chameleons, the air flow is fresh, it faces the rising stars in a South East way… I don’t know if I believe in energy spots or not, but there is nothing in this spot to explain why it feels like a good spot, the same plants/weeds as elsewhere, but for some reason a cool spot. I do like the rock wall I built here to keep in my dad’s smaller chihuahua.

Made this mulch around the sunflowers with dead climbing fern and dead Hapu’u fern branches, the Hapu’u fern is supposedly thousands of years old because it never dies, but instead falls over and regrows from a new spot… I find it inspiring, almost intimidating to use. I found a new garden quote I liked, something about use the good points of the garden, fix the deficits and make it an enjoyable place to be. Permaculture is cool, but focuses on 0 waste and bringing in only local supplies, I like to do those things, but I really like to not stress over 0 waste, but rather just reduce waste 50% if possible and I want whatever supplies I can get that I need no matter where they come from… I guess I’m not ready for a total commitment because I have little man power and work time, I want to do a lot with what I have and that means sometimes having good supplies that may or may not be found locally or on-site… but when I do make things on site, it does feel good.

On the left a large pile of sharp sticks to mulch, someday a hedge of Mexican Sunflower and Pananax, the cuttings are mostly doing well, this is the first time there was enough debree gone to be able to walk the front garden from the West side to the East side, it’s a long garden, but not huge.

Trying to see if the ferns can hold morning glories, I would love them to climb the branches and eventually send flowers dripping off.

We played a lot of music today, my son played all the instruments one by one, I put a bridge on a violin and then started learning to play the violin, the notes are “good daughters are elegant, G-D-A-E” I was going to tune it, but then I ended up watching a tutorial and enjoying playing twinkle twinkle little star. As I’m getting closer to hearing the pitches right I can kind of find my notes on the violin bridge, I noticed the bow was over-tightened and loosening that plus extra rosin on the bow and strings of the violin reduce the squeeky sound a lot. I never really intended to play violin, but my kids wanted some after hearing about Hayden who played violin and piano at a young age. It was really nice playing music today, it didn’t feel like a chore like it sometimes does.

Monday: Last week finished social studies, trying to remember to review “Mankind the Story of All of Us,” Children of the Nile and Nebakanezer and Cesar and Pharoh, Daniel Tiger, and music lessons. This week we went to the zoo with a pack of kids, it was a completely different experience, it was fun having snacks and playing and catching up, our zoo has a sloth, an alligator, some goats, two tigers, an emu named Bling and a playground, it’s a great small zoo, but it feels scortching hot so I don’t go often. There is also a really cool black swan. After going to the zoo we went to mulch a pathway which is my kind of party. I got to give away some more of the sunflowers, I don’t want to have a lot of annuals to replant, so I really like the Mexican Sunflowers better than Mammoth sunflowers, also distributed most of the rhubarb that I don’t really care for either… one little girl was really attached to a morning glory, which was so cute. I hope the kids have fun watching the sprouts grow bigger.

Tuesday: Last week we cleaned the bathroom, decluttering our stuff as well which takes more time. This week planted about 80 pumpkins in grow bags and about 80 watermelon, very tired. My son helped, he can get grow bags when we run out, mix soil, fill soil and place seedlings, that was cool. But it was just tiring. I have been at half strength since at least Friday, that makes me a bit sad. I want to pick up a rock, but I can only lift it 2-4 inches and I want to lift it up to set it on the 3 foot wall.

Wednesday: Last week we finished out the computer coding. This week we are headed toward the math decathlon, I finished the questions and chose the dates, looks like we will go camping soon. Did martial arts, which felt nice. Another scout wanted to participate in Clutter Fight Club, so my daughter got pumped up about it, which was cool.

Thursday: Last week I made some progress for the pumpkin patch. This week I’ve got the straw, but could use 6 bags of steer manure compost and 7-10 bags of mulch. I spent a lot of time gardening, I put new sod on my daughter’s green roof, potted up strawberries/tomatoes for a tower garden, pruned the strawberries, delivered that to town, got straw, and dropped that off to the pumpkin patch site. I switched my patio plant area from deep beds to shelves for small plants going out. I started cleaning up the walkway next to the stairs, I’m leveling the front garden path with trimmings as I go. I weeded around my daughter’s playhouse, there is one spider in there I will probably evict to get it more kid ready again, cut down the net that was around it…

Friday: Last week a lot of math was going on. This week we made strawberry cake, it was pretty good, tasted like a cookie though, which is not the worst, but I prefer a light fluffy cake texture more. I was hoping to branch out from math to music and we did, so we started one new math class. We had three piano students, which was awesome. We were so tired I didn’t think we would do much math or music, but we started a math class, we had three students, we did computer coding and three new students did piano, so that’s awesome actually. I give all the credit to the kids, they are good kids open-minded to learning rather than dragging their feet.

How’s it Growing?

Cherry Blossom – Cold stratified, soaking. ⌛

Lavender – Cold stratified, soaking. ⌛

Rhubarb – Germinated in 2 days via paper towel. Grown. Distributed. 🦋

Sunflower – Germinated in 3 days after 24 hour soak in cup of water, sprouting well. Grown. Distributed. Extra growing. 👍🏼

Morning Glory – Germinated in 1 day via cup of water, moved to paper towels, moved to grow bags. Grown. Distributed. Extra growing. Planted in my front garden too. 🌱

Roma Tomato – Germinated in 2 days via paper towel. Grown, doing well almost reading to distribute. 👍🏼

Clover, Alfalfa – For the Hilo Garden A. 🔮

Something new this week: Finally figured out the math decathalon questions and that made life easier, not doing it was draining me more than I knew.

Something good this week: Helped a friend figure out a wedding gift choice, it’s good when you can help a friend.

Something unexpected: The zoo was a different experience together, I didn’t realize that it would be so different.

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🍁 2022 Thirty-Fourth Week 🌻

September 3, 2022Leave a comment

“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.“ – Terry Goodkind 🕊️

GOALS THIS WEEK: Start clearing a place for my friend to do our market analysis for our programs.

Last Week: Spouting morning glories.

This Week: Sprouted sunflower and rhubarb.

HEALTH OVERVIEW:

Mental Health: Happy to be closing out the coding challenge even though I’m proud of the kids.

Physical Health: So much better, exercised Sunday and was okay, feel the tiniest bit short of breath in my lungs still, with a lingering cough, so truthfully not 100%, but close.

Social Health: Happy to be gardening with my friends again.

LIFE JOURNAL:

“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
– Roberto Assagioli

“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.”

–Mary Anne Radmacher

Saturday: Last week I grafted cherry tomato from my first year here onto an avocado tree in my daughter’s square-foot garden. I wanted to add new soil and turn the soil, but I need more vermiculite and also want more compost, so I’ll have to do a store run. We had some kids over, sweet kids, I was surprised at how fast they adapted to our home, they were easy to feed the simple foods I have, and easy to have them brush their teeth and settle down at night. It was stressful not wanting to break their mom’s rules/trust, every candy or movie felt like, is this the candy/movie that will get me in trouble, or is this candy/movie totally fine? I didn’t want to let her down. The kids said they always eat cereal, but I didn’t know if that was true… so they ate healthy over here… the kids wanted videos I don’t show, so they watched multiplication songs and Daniel Tiger over here, the kids wanted to play games, I didn’t know what games were allowed, so it was just “you need authorization for that”. I never felt sure about their rules.

Sunday: Last week I had fun sailing, and did some Hilo gardening, clutter fight club, and shopping. This week I exercised again, for 25 minutes, but it’s a grueling 25 minutes with T25. I went shopping and got exhausted, I went five places for vermiculite (Home Depot, General Store, Hilo Grow Shop, Walmart, Ace) that didn’t have it after doing grocery shopping. I just ordered it online at night, screw “shop local” when they never have what I want, how about “stock local” first… Thank you, Amazon, for having the items I want to buy.

Monday: Last week I was super tired, but then got inspired and cleaned half the patio. This week a lot of social studies, it wasn’t my intention to finish it so soon, but I liked it, it let me know the subject matter that is being covered in the “standard curriculum” then that lets me know what I want to add or integrate like Columbus is covered and they also cover that in “Mankind the Story of All of Us” so I can integrate the curriculum that way and also with Civ games such as Children of the Nile and Nebakanezer and Cesar and Pharoh. My son particularly likes civilization-building games, he is 3 now, at that age my daughter preferred zoo and theme park games. We did some Daniel Tiger to start the school day, we did some music time too.

Tuesday: Last week I we did a ton of social studies, and more music. This week both kids pretty much finished social studies, learning about continents, and historical events (Columbus, Alamo, Titanic), social studies makes me the saddest because I notice how little we know about the Native Americans, my daughter is about a quarter indigenous, I’m 4%, but we really know so little, I’m a little Eqyptian, but I know so much more about that. Also, my kids are Mexican American, so the Alamo is the first time we discussed our own people kind of murdering other people… which is going to come up again as Germans, as Japanese, as Chinese… but this is the first time (second grade) when the horrors of war start coming up, the war of independence is a bit glorified and watered down in Kindergarten and first grade, but second grade starts to be grimmer. We cleaned the bathroom, decluttering our stuff as well which takes more time.

Wednesday: Last week I planned my school day, it was a birthday, math day, gymnastics, and tie-dye. It was nice to finish out the computer coding. I’m so proud of the kids who were involved, all our programs are so grassroots, it takes a lot of faith and flexibility on the part of the kids to believe in us that there will be any value in the work they put in and then it’s a gamble, some put in a lot of work hours and I hope they got value out of the work they put in.

Thursday: Last week I made some clutter fight club graphics and cleaned up the front garden. This week I want to go grab steer manure, the vermiculite is already here. I did get 8 bags of steer manure compost, 7 bags of brown mulch, and site selected, filled, and mixed the pumpkin patch garden bed, also viewed the larger site of one garden, and built a large composter.

Friday: Last week we started Japanese lessons finally… which was awesome. This week a lot of math was going on, some writing numbers, some Fibonacci addition, and some fraction multiplication. Started distributing principal mementos to the scouts, seven so far.