HMJ: September 16-20, 2013
In my life this week… I’ve fallen halfway off the Weight Watchers wagon. I’m down about fourteen pounds from when I started about six weeks ago, and I’ve lost every week. Most of this, though, I...
View ArticleScarecrow creations at the Huntsville Botanical Garden
Here are a few of the exhibits along the Scarecrow Trail at the Huntsville Botanical Garden that caught my eye on Friday:
View ArticleOur week on Dauphin Island
We spent six days on Dauphin Island, a barrier island off the coast of Mobile, Alabama, last week, and I’m having a hard time getting back to real life. We stayed with several other families from our...
View ArticleDauphin Island sunset
I took this series of shots one evening in about ten minutes at the public beach on the west end of the island. We had gone over to do some beachcombing, but the sunset was my favorite part of the …...
View ArticleThe Estuarium at Dauphin Island Sea Lab
We spent one morning at the Estuarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. We’ve been to three other big public aquariums over the years (Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta,...
View ArticleFort Gaines–Dauphin Island, AL
We visited Fort Gaines, an historic fort on Dauphin Island, during the afternoon after visiting the estuarium. There were historical reenactors depicting what life would’ve been like there during the...
View ArticleBeachcombing on Dauphin Island
All of these photos were taken on the west end of the island.
View ArticleMobile Bay cruise
We sailed aboard the fishing boat Duke into Mobile Bay. This was both a pleasure and an educational cruise, with the promise of the chance to observe and even touch many different specimens of marine...
View ArticleIf you take a girl to a play. . .
she’ll first feel the need to review the story upon which the play is based. (This is but one reason I like to have an extensive home library–one never knows when inspiration will strike! It makes...
View ArticleOdds & Ends
We left spring break behind last week and as we entered the new week, I knew it would be a busy one. Now that we’re on the other side of it, I can say that this is the sort of week I really enjoy,...
View ArticleAlabama Wildlife Center
Steady Eddie had a meeting in Pelham, Alabama, last week, so we all went along for the ride to visit the Alabama Wildlife Center at Oak Mountain State Park. It was a very last-minute trip (as in we...
View ArticleAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
I was prompted to pick up Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a read-aloud because of the Alice’s Garden of Wonders event at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens. Of course we had to read it before we...
View ArticleDauphin Island Estuarium
We spent our second morning on the island at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab Estuarium. This was sort of spur-of-the-moment because where we really wanted to go was the beach, but the skies looked pretty...
View ArticleOn the beach
In addition to several evening beach visits, I spent a couple of days at the beach during the week we spent on Dauphin Island. My sister, a true beach bum, and the children all went a time or two more...
View ArticleAudubon Bird Sanctuary on Dauphin Island
One of the last things my little family did on our trip to Dauphin Island was visit the Audubon Bird Sanctuary. My parents, sister, and her boys had to leave Sunday morning for my younger nephew to...
View ArticleBellingrath Gardens
One place my mother had on her “must see” list while we were in south Alabama was Bellingrath Gardens. My mother inherited a love for growing things from both her parents, and she inherited a love...
View ArticleDavid Crockett Days 2014
We had our first field trip of the 2014-2015 school year on Friday, and we haven’t even started the year yet. ;-) David Crockett State Park in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, has an annual event called...
View ArticleGood eats on DI
While planning our Dauphin Island vacation, we determined that one way we’d keep the cost down was by planning our meals and eating at the beach house for most of them. We brought a crock pot and...
View ArticleOdds & Ends
We’ve been back at our lessons now for about 3 weeks, but this is just our second week with what will be our actual schedule. On top of all that, Steady Eddie was out of town Monday through Thursday...
View ArticleOdds & Ends
The weeks are sure flying, aren’t they? We’re so busy nowadays that I blink twice and it’s Friday. Here are this week’s highlights: We spent Labor Day doing lessons in the morning, and then that...
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