Russman's spot

4/15/11

Food glorious food!

Oriental chicken vegetable soup

Grilled pastrami & Swiss with Asian slaw

French toast with Mexican vanilla, Saigon cinnamon, lemon, turbinado sugar and our own maple syrup.

Organic popcorn with butter and nutritional yeast

blue corn cakes with our own syrup

Marinated grilled salmon and asparagus

Hello Grill!!!!!

Marinated all day wings

4/10/11

Done, Done, & Fun

We finished math! Pretty impressive as we took a lot of time off for travel this year. We already started our new books, but school is much more relaxed when we can be ahead a bit.

For Saxon 6/7 the last lesson is an investigation. We made a dodecahedron, and octahedron, a cube, and a tetrahedron.

We finished the maple syrup on the same day. It took five days of boiling from sunup to sundown.

I finished, and strained it in the house. We got just over 3 quarts which is a perfect amount for our family for the year.

Se we took some time for some fun!

This is one of the parks in Lake City. My children refer to it as the "Duck Park" ever since we moved here when they were 3 and 2.

4/6/11

So I got this box on April Fools Day. Expecting math books that I had purchased on EBAY, I picked it up to bring it in the house. But it was heavy.....REALLY heavy. It was addressed to me, but I had no idea who the sender was. The return address was, Friends of Lake Pepin, 100 Agate Rd. My husband shook it and said, "It's rocks." Well, who the heck would send me rocks?
Since it was April Fools Day, and knowing my siblings, I did what anyone would do.......I had the kids open it!

This is what we found!!!!!!!!!!!

It was unbelievable!!! Who would send this? It was like Christmas in a box!

There was a letter....a beautifully written letter. It was written by someone who had visited Lake City as a youngster and found agates on the shores of beautiful Lake Pepin. The writer had cherished these agates all his/her life, and wanted them to go to a good home.

Along with the agates was this book

Brazilian agate

I have no way to thank this person, so I will do it here. Thank-you, for your generous gift, selflessness, and reminding us not just of the natural beauty we live in, but the beauty of a stranger's heart! We WILL pay it forward!

3/30/11

Food glorious food!

Some of the food prepared and eaten around here in the last two weeks. This is just a wrap with honey mustard, turkey, cabbage, and carrot on a tomato tortilla

Chocolate chip BACON cookies! Everyone loved them!

Frittata with portabella, caramelized onion, bacon, potato and manchego

lemon meringue pie

scramble

Grilled salmon with homemade beans and coleslaw

The start of French Onion

The best French Onion in the history of ever!!!

3/29/11

Fractions

We are nearing the end of our math books. Margaret has been working on reducing and renaming fractions, and she is quite good at it! Math is easy for her, which makes it easy for me! Only five lessons left. Both girls are excited to finish up and move on.