Monthly Archives: May 2016

Learn how: Easily Identify Common Plant Families: The plant kingdom is composed of a wide variety of plant species. It can be subdivided into vascular and non-vascular plants. Vascular plants are characterized by having specialized tissues (xylem and phloem) to transport food and minerals unlike non-vascular plants. Plants can further be classified as angiosperms and […]

 Little Heathens: Hard Times & High Spirits On An Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish ~ This book was covered in a wealth of recommendations from various authors and papers ~ a great deal of raving and even a mention of “quiet lyricism.” My hopes were thus excited… and a bit […]

We have a huge… um… year ahead of us.  It started probably last year to be honest, maybe with the birth of our 9th grandchild and his dramatic and terrifying first few days, a conference, houseguests, and Christmas with four boys and all the grandbabies (now 10!) and their parents here visiting.  two of the boys were Ukrainian orphans, 2 were […]