A busy week

This first week of September proved to be a busy busy week in the life of the Carmonas. Here is a quick recap...and an apology for the delay in posting...

1. Apple picking
Gita, Lilikoi, Kelcey, David, and Karen spend a sunny afternoon at Mrs. Dailey's house picking apples from her trees. Gita loves "Missy Dailey's" house, her little doggie, and her extensive doll collection. Her three trees were heavy with apples just waiting to be picked.

2. Apple processing
What do 2 families do with 100 pounds of apples? We don't have an apple press for making cider and it was far too hot for a canning mission. So we turned baskets of apples into apple sauce, apple butter, frozen apple slices, and apple struedel. 6 hours in the kitchen took a toll on our energy levels, and all of that apple stuff took up a fair portion of our fridge, but it was fun and we will enjoy the fruits of our labor in the winter months.

3. The Stone Mountain Homeschool (our "official" homeschool name) begins
Another year of homeschooling. Noah is working on 6th Grade currriculum and Nimuae is starting 2nd Grade. We use a wonderful Waldorf based curriculum called Oak Meadow for both kids. We all did a section on the Stone Age this week ...one project was making clay figures based on some cave paintings we looked at on-line. Nim's horse met her end soon after her creation, Noah made an awesome bull and a snowman (?). We took them outside to photograph them next to these amazing mushrooms that popped up next to our door. And the next day, we observed the mushrooms to see if they died or grew..and just look at them...they are huge!

4. Visit friends in Mill Springs
David and the girls spent the day at Chris and Rebecca's house, with their kids Sunny (10) and twins Maggie and Lucy (3) while I was in meetings in town and Noah was hanging out with this buddies. Here are the girls are on the "green machine."

5. Kelcey's Birthday Brunch
I did not get any photos of the brunch itself or the wonderful group of celebrators, but I did catch a few shots of 1) Nimmy with the cool lanterns, and 2) Gita looking through a lantern.