Day 16: My Kingdom for a Kindle....

I am loving my new Kindle, a Christmas gift from the family. It's so lightweight, a wonderful break for my arthritic hands.

Here I've uploaded the Oedipus Trilogy for Timothy's SMARR World Lit course. He uses the Read Aloud function to listen to the plays (Oedipus Rex and Antigone) while he reads along which really helps him to understand the plays better.

Day 15: B's Snack

Benjamin made himself a snack this afternoon, a favorite in our household: peanut butter on brown rice cakes....

Day 14: At Lunch Today

My lunch caught the light this afternoon, and the whispering sound the tangerines made as I separated them into sections drew my attention even more....

Day 13: California History Mission Report

Benjamin had to write a Mission Report for his California History Class at Class Day. He chose to report on the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in Oceanside where our friend C. is buried in the most beautiful place.

Benjamin copied the front of the mission from a brochure; he spent nearly six hours on this drawing which is part of the overall mission report. I hope he gets a good grade on this required report for the only class required by the state of California.

Day 12: Exercise

I pedal away on this recumbent stationary bicycle in our screened patio almost every day. I love looking out on the blue skies and the nearby Jeffrey pines whose vanilla scent tickles my nose.

This week has been unseasonably warm--I opened all the windows this afternoon--so it's been very pleasant using the bike. But even rain doesn't necessarily stop me from biking.

My new Kindle is wonderful to use while biking as well. I can read several chapters and lose track of how far and long I've biked...which is a very good thing.

Day 10: Back to School

Timothy studying world history....

Today marked our first day back to home schooling after a month off; our last school day was December 10. So here we are on January 10, with Timothy hitting the world history book, his school schedule laid out before him, in front of the wood burning stove, the warmest place in the house on a very cold morning....

Day 9: A Girl and Her Pup

This afternoon after church we dropped Elizabeth back on campus at Point Loma Nazarene University as her second semester starts tomorrow. I'm gonna miss my girl something awful, but I think that Dash, who sleeps with her, may miss her as much, if not more, than I will....

Day 8: El Capitan



El Capitan

As Keith and I drove back up the mountain after seeing our chiropractor, I snapped this one through the windshield. Often El Capitan, a stone-faced mountain, is hazed with smog. But this morning it was clear, and I couldn't resist....

Day 7: At the Mission



Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside, CA



On the face of the Mission front....

Our family met our good friends the Cox family at the Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside so that B can do his mission report for his California History course at Class Day. This mission, about an hour and fifteen minutes from our home, is the largest of the 21 California Missions and is nicknamed "the King of the Missions."

I posted my two favorite photos here, one a side view of the mission, including the door to the old cemetery next door to the mission, and one of the statue on the outside face of the front of the mission. We had a lovely time with some lovely people!

Day 6: Bye Bye, Christmas

Today is Epiphany, the day following Twelfth Night, the last night of Christmastide. So today we packed away our Christmas decorations....

Bye bye, Christmas. See you in eleven months....