This post is a team effort from The Nature Boy aka our oldest son Philip and myself. We have worked on this together from keyword outline to rough draft to final copy. Creation is the basic foundation of our Christian Faith. As Christians without understand creation there is no need for God…Could this explain the […]
Nature Study Tuesday~Horsing Around~April 26
April 25, 2011 by 3 Comments
This week, we didn’t get out much and when we did, I didn’t have my camera. However, we did get out on Easter Sunday and rode horses. Lora 8 riding for the first time by herself. Your’s truly riding Stormy…this is the mare that was severely injured in August…We have come a long way. Our […]
Nature Study Tuesday April 19~Garden, Lilacs, and Butterflies
April 18, 2011 by 1 Comment
Wow, we managed to plant 200 onion sets and around 100 potatoes…I didn’t count them. lol I have four rows that are nearly 20 feet each. Our lilacs are blooming and with them, have come the butterflies. We have spotted Monarchs, Painted Ladies, Sulphers, and Black and Yellow Swallowtails. Spring has Sprung and the winds […]
Nature Study Tuesday~Nature Boy talks…
March 28, 2011 by 2 Comments
Guest post from: Philip (11) AKA Nature Boy. I caught a fence lizard the other day. I set up a habitat with old decaying wood, rocks, dirt and growing cheat for it in an aquarium. I like to do a few science experiments with it. I made a jungle gym out of yarn for it […]
Nature Study Tuesday~March 21~Windy Kansas, Spring is blowing in.
March 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
There are little signs of spring all over. The strawberries are starting to poke through the hay we mulched them with, the alfalfa fields are more green then brown, and the wind is BLOWING. Blowing hard enough that we actually stayed inside today. Why? Because the pollens are high and the need for Benadryl has […]
Nature Study Tuesday~Pumpkin Patch~October 26
October 25, 2010 by 1 Comment
This will be the last weekly NST until spring, unless, I have people showing interest to continue it. I am considering it doing it monthly through the winter. I just don’t see myself, or others, really being out in Nature enough to be about to post each week. 😉 This past Friday, we went to […]
Nature Study Tuesday~A Day at the Refuge October 19
October 18, 2010 by 1 Comment
This past weekend, we went to the nearby wildlife refuge for their annual celebration. First we went on the tram, the took us through an area of the refuge to the lookout tower over the marsh and wetlands. We learned that the marsh, is supposed to be naturally salty, but over the years has “freshed” […]
Nature Study Tuesday~October 5~Apple Orchard
October 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I am sorry I am getting this up late. Our four year old most likely broke his arm Saturday, and I have been running. 😉 He has an ortho appointment tomorrow, so we should know for sure by then. 😉 Friday we went to an Apple Orchard for a field trip. It is a beautiful […]
Nature Study Tuesday~September 28~ Large Moth
September 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This week we were out playing, and our landlord/adopted grandpa drove in with a special package. I guess our love of nature must have rubbed off on him. ;) Anyway, he brought us a large moth. We believe it is a tobacco hornworm moth, but umm, it seems that these big moths all look very […]
Nature Study Tuesday~ September 21~On or Off the Fence…
September 20, 2010 by 2 Comments
Once again our oldest was working with dad near Quivera Wildlife Refuge, when he found three Eastern Fence Lizards. These are the neatest little creatures, and they are really cute in a scaly kind of a way. They are so fun to watch. They bob their heads, race around and the tiny one will crawl […]
Nature Study Tuesday ~ September 14 ~ Family Zoo Trip
September 14, 2010 by 1 Comment
Our family does not go to the zoo all that often, or at least the big zoo. We go to the smaller zoo about two times a year. This was the year we went to the big one though. We saw so many creatures from God’s creation, and you know, every single one is beautiful […]
Nature Study Tuesday~September 7~ The USS-Unidentifiable Slithering Snake
September 6, 2010 by 1 Comment
This week I had our oldest out mowing. After a little while he came in carrying a snake, that had it’s clipped by the mower. It was about twelvish inches long and marked more like a bull snake then a garter snake. He was holding it and concerned about then tail, when it started acting […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 31~Bull Snake, Giant Toad, Mushrooms, and more…
August 30, 2010 by 3 Comments
One of Philip’s goals this summer was to catch a bull snake, and catch a bull snake he did. This was not one of those cuddly snakes, notice the gloves? This thing decided to strike at me as I was walking by. Yeah, umm, I didn’t handle this one. He found it outside of his […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 24~Healing, teeny Tiny Snake.
August 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
As I posted yesterday, life is a bit busy here. Getting back to normal school hours, taking care of Stormy and canning are taking priority right now, so, my memes will be up, just maybe not when they have been. Just come link up when you can though. 😉 Stormy our horse who was injured […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 17~Linky is here.
August 16, 2010 by 1 Comment
Ok, as some of you may have noticed, I decided for obvious reasons not to make all my readers read my graphic horse injury post to find the linky. Our nature study for a while will be our horse, unless we come upon something else. However, due to the amount of time I am spending […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 17~WARNING~The one with graphic horse injury pictures.
August 16, 2010 by 8 Comments
Because of the graphic content, I will post a separate post, so that you can link up without having to look at the pictures. PLEASE NOTE THIS POST CONTAINS VERY GRAPHIC PICTURES!! Last week during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, our mare was injured by another horse. When I went out to feed the […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 10~The one where it is TOOOOOO HOT !!
August 9, 2010 by 1 Comment
Yes, I did shout that. It has been near or over 100 degrees for days. My green beans are burning up despite watering nearly ever day. It is just plain toooooo HOT. There has been one day in the last week that it hit 113. I have been able to get some beans from our […]
Nature Study Tuesday July 27-Pinkies, Sunflowers and Skies.
July 27, 2010 by 3 Comments
This week we had a lot of fun exploring God’s creation. One of the hay fields that Brad cares for is within a quarter mile of a National Wildlife Refuge. That is where the “pinkies” were found. I posted the other day on Facebook, a picture of them, trying to see if anyone could guess […]
Nature Study Tuesday July 20—Insects, chickens, giant sunflowers, and sandhill plums
July 20, 2010 by 2 Comments
It has not been a week of nature here. I have limited my outside time, since, my allergic reaction. However, I did get a new to me camera yesterday. My other camera was getting to where it would not focus half the time. I am passing it to our oldest, and now have a new […]
Nature Study Tuesday July 13-Taking a Blog Break due to a back injury.
July 13, 2010 by 1 Comment
This week was a week of bugs, salamanders, and turtles. Tiger Salamanders. These are our State’s (Kansas) Amphibian. Each of these is a different Salamander. Don’t know what this is, but it has a spiny wheel on it’s back. A Spiny soft-shell turtle. I thought I would alert you all, that I am […]
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