*Sigh* This summer has seemed so, so short. The longer I live in Michigan, the shorter summer gets. I will hold on to every last warm day possible, but the truth of the matter is, there is a nip in the air that can't be ignored! The leaves are starting to change already, and the garden plants are slowly dying away.
We have crammed so many things into these last two weeks! Things that were promised to our daughter and all of a sudden we realized we hadn't done and the calendar was about to change to September! So we went to the beach, to get ice cream, to mini-golf. In a hurry, hurry! we have to get this into summer! sort of way.
Last week we went to see the Nina and Pinta replica ships with a homeschool group. It was so much fun! And surprising too - the ships were so small! I just cannot imagine them crossing the ocean! And they slept on the decks - not even the captains slept below deck. They were black - a color I wouldn't have imagined them to be (I'm not really sure that I ever thought of what color they should be, but I wasn't expecting them to be black). It was a very fun learning experience, and it ties in perfectly with the start of Classical Conversations since we'll be doing American history this cycle.
And canning! I am ready to hang up my canning apron for the year. ;-) Alas, there are still a few projects that I must make time for, but soon I will call it quits and start gifting tomatoes (raw!) to others. And then fall will bring apples, but there will be a little break between the tomatoes and apples!
I haven't had the time to sit and plan out our homeschool year so that planning will take place this week. I had aimed for starting the first week of September but I quickly realized that it just wasn't happening that way, it would really be pushing it to do so. So I'll get my canning wrapped up, my school cabinet all spiffied up, get my calendar out and plan the year, and be ready to start Kindergarten!
While I will miss summer, I am looking forward to the new beginnings fall is bringing!
3 comments:
those ships sound like a lot of fun!
It's not just Michigan. In Pennsylvania this summer was too short also. My dogwood tree already has red berries and the leaves are starting to turn. What does all of this mean for the coming winter???
Molly
The ships were a lot of fun!
Molly, I have seen that The Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting a very cold winter. I'm hoping they're wrong!
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