Banding Birds at Ruthven Park
Saturday, September 4th, 2010 Posted in Family, birding, creation, teaching | No Comments »I took the oldest three kids to Ruthven Park today to help out at the banding lab. The kids were profuse in their thanks on the way home, which rarely happens, and makes me think they had a great time. ...
Madurodam
Saturday, April 17th, 2010 Posted in Family, Travels, birding | 3 Comments »Friends from the UK joined us for a day at the miniature village of Madurodam in The Hague. Set up as a memorial for a Dutch WWII resistance fighter by his family, it bears his name. The village is a ...
Easter in Friesland
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 Posted in Family, Travels, birding | No Comments »We celebrated Easter in Franeker, Friesland, at the home of Pete's mother's cousin. Our wonderful hosts showed us many sights and sounds of their fine province. The home we were hosted in. [photopress:IMGP9928.JPG,full,pp_image] [photopress:IMGP9930.JPG,full,pp_image] The view from our rooms. [photopress:IMGP9926.JPG,full,pp_image] A toy for the kids, and ...
Burger’s Zoo
Friday, April 2nd, 2010 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels, birding, creation | No Comments »We enjoyed a day at the Burger's Zoo last Saturday. As home schoolers, we are so used to going places during the week when things are so much quieter and were surprised by the crowds. I think the pictures tell ...
Goin’ to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo . . .
Friday, March 5th, 2010 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels, birding | 2 Comments ». . . how about you, you, you? We had a great day at the zoo on Thursday. About a 15 minute drive from where we're living in NL is the Ouwehand Dierenpark. Caleb had requested a zoo trip for his ...
Hoek van Holland
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Family, Travels, birding, creation | No Comments »On Saturday we had a wonderful visit with relatives of Pete from his Mom's side of the family. We visited the ouwe tantes, Pete's great aunts, aged 93 and 101. After lunch we drove to the beach and walked along ...
We Tipped Our Hats To Oxford
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in Crafts, Family, Travels, birding | No Comments »Just a week before we made our trip to Canada for Christmas we made a short visit to Oxford. We visited a RSPB site local to Oxford called Otmoor, and spent some time in the great outdoors looking for British ...
Sandwell Valley RSPB Nature Reserve
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels, birding, creation | No Comments »Caleb's been patiently waiting for us to find a place to go birding. We signed up as RSPB (Royal Society for Protection of Birds) members and the kids received their first membership packages last week. They were super excited! ...
Poetry
Saturday, November 7th, 2009 Posted in Homeschooling, Travels, birding, creation | 2 Comments »We've been working on some poetry lessons for school and here is one of the results that Caleb came up with Blue Tit by Caleb Scholtens Blue Tits are fun But they don't like to eat bun. They like to eat sunflower seeds and the seeds ...
In the Hen House
Monday, September 21st, 2009 Posted in Homeschooling, Travels, birding, creation | No Comments »On Saturday we went on our first fun family outing since we returned to the UK. Now those of you who know us well won't be surprised at our choice, but it may come as a pretty strange choice to ...