Oh Blessed Rain

It's raining. It's wonderful.  We're about 10 inches below the norm for summer and in extreme drought condition.  I awoke to the soft patter of rain on the window this morning.  I'd forgotten how good a rain smells.  You'd almost think it was spring with the sweet smell in the air.

Today is the Fall Harvest Festival in town.  They're having a pedal tractor pull, a corn feed, arts and crafts, a farmers' exchange, and other stuff.  My two little ones are going to do the tractor pull and I'm excited to see what kinds of treasures there'll be at the farmer's exchange.  Just an exchange of information will be fun.

We have located the umbrellas and we're off!

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I'm SO excited!

Our curriculum arrived today.  It is awesome!  I ordered from Overcomers Books and Supplies.  It's called Prepare and Pray.  We'll be using Swiss Family Robinson as our text and doing unit studies on each chapter.  There's bible memorization, knot tying, sewing, survival skills, gardening, herbs, edible wildflowers, livestock husbandry, geography, vocabulary, grammer, history and on and on.  We also use Reader's Digest Back to Basics,  Country Living, Christian Biographies.  We'll be learning first aid, too.  I'll keep you posted on how it's going.  This is going to be fun!

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Sandhill Cranes

Out and about this morning, and I heard a strange noise.  Sounded like a woodfrog, amplified about 25 times.  I went to look behind the barn and there were the horses, cows and donkeys standing stock still, mesmerized.  They were staring at a sandhill crane.  How cool is that?  We've never seen them up close and personal like that.  The people we bought our home from said that they come through here from time to time.  Nice blessing.

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Pita Bread and Garlic Cucumber Dip

I like using alot of garlic when I cook.  My family isn't as crazy about it.  They just don't realize how healthy they'll be!  Anyways, I like breads and dips.  Hawaiin bread with spinach dip.  Pita bread with hummus dip and pita bread with cucumber dip.  Here's a recipe for making your own pita bread and a garlic dip.

Pita Bread

4 1/2 to 4 3/4 cups flour

1 pkg yeast

1 1/2 teaspoons sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 3/4 cups water

2 tablespoons oil

Mix 2 cups of flour, yeast, sugar, salt.  Heat water and oil until warm.  Add to flour mixture.  Beat 3 minutes at medium speed. Stir in flour to make smooth and elastic about 10 minutes.  Let rest 20 minutes covered.  Punch down and divide into 12 parts.  Roll into smooth balls.  Cover and let rise 30 minutes.  Heat oven to 500.  Roll balls out into 6 inch circles.  Bake about 3 minutes.

 

Garlic cucumber dip

1 large cucumber

3/4 cup plain yogurt

3/4 cup sour cream

3 tablespoons olive oil

4 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh dill

4 1/2 teaspoons red wine vinegar

3 garlic cloves, minced

1/4 teaspoon salt

Pita bread wedges

Peel cucmber, cut in half lengthwise and scoop out seeds.  Grate cucumber and squeeze between paper towels several times to remove excess moisture.  Place cucumber in a small bowl, stir in the yogurt, sour cream, oil, dill, vinegar, garlic and salt.  Refrigerate until chilled.  Serve with pita bread. (Taste of Home Magazine)

Enjoy.

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First Day of School

Today we started school.  We usually follow the same calendar as the public school.  It's easier for us that way.  Every summer I say that I'm going to continue to school at least one day a week, and every summer it just doesn't happen.  This summer I chalk it up to moving.

We haven't recieved our curriculum yet.  I ordered Pray and Prepare.  It sounds interestting.  I usually order from Rod and Staff, and a little Bob Jones.  I kinda mix and match. 

We did some review today and just some fun stuff.

How did everyone else's day go?  Anyone start school today, too?

Time to get off of this thing and get something else done.

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