This semester as part of our weekly homeschool co-op classes, Bryn took a "Body Science" class. How cool is it that a budding veterinarian can actually handle real animal organs at age 9? I love homeschooling.

A cow's eyeball




Sheep Brain & Pig Spleen



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Last week, a friend of ours called up and asked if we wanted to be in a local TV commercial for the Highland Park Diner. We said, "Heck, yes!" and hightailed it down for a free lunch and camera shoot. It was really fun.

Here's a little preview of the commercial:

Highland Park Diner commercial

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You know how when you log into Flickr, it tells you how to say "hello" in different languages? The kids and I died when we logged in today and saw this:

O HAI JasonCondon!

Now you know how to greet people in Lolspeak!


Bwahaha!

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Finally, Ella has resigned herself to making friends with our newest foster kitten :)



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In our quest for more primal eating habits, we like to follow the Mark's Daily Apple blog. He has lots of recipes and tips for low-carb living.

He recently ran a "post-it contest" for people to send in pictures of primal living examples. Our two entries received a "Notable Mention"!





View all the Notable Mention entries here.

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I can't spell "pickles" right to save my life. I can only hear the French Peas from Veggie Tales pronouncing it "pick-els".

We did, however, can our first batch of dill pickels from Heidi Cressman's extra cucumbers. Thanks Heidi!





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My 11 yr. old son just made his first sale on eBay. He trolled through his lego box and picked out some Star Wars figures to sell, and I showed him how to list it. He took the picture himself, uploaded it from the camera, wrote out the eBay selling sheet and product description, calculated the postage and final value fees, paid the listing fee, and packaged it up in a bubble-wrap envelope.

It sold on a "Buy It Now" within 10 minutes of being posted. He made a profit of $7.03.

Teaching youth the wonders of commerce. It's a beautiful thing.

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There is a picture of me and Bryn in the paper today with an article about the Ganondagan festival yesterday.



Click here to see the full article.

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Here are some pictures from our day at the Ganondagan Native American Festival in Victor today.

Learning drum rhythms
 



Eating Bison Steak (cooked by Canadian TV Chef "The Wolfman")


The Longhouse


Native American Dancers


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We just got confirmation from Lollypop that our first litter of foster kittens (the black & white ones) have all been adopted. (They don't keep everyone updated on the status of fosters as a rule, but I specifically asked about ours and someone there was very nice and checked for me.)

Hooray for people who adopt kittens!

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