thursday
we started the morning with a bike ride along the hudson river park, biking just past the sailing school pier.
on the way back we passed this little teddy bear who had lost it's owners! we hope he finds them soon!
the girls worked on their book reports. c started writing about the borrowers.
and m wrote about betsy ross.
when it was time for a snack, hermione surprised me by being up on the frig! i had never seen her there before!
after a snack, we walked to matt umanov guitars to get morgana a foot stool. her teacher has some very specific exercises and actions that he would like her to do to help her technique. 
she needs to use the foot stool, place her guitar on her lap in a certain position, and file her nails so that they are a particular length! classical guitar can be as technical as violin!
we made a very nice dinner with organic chicken from our amish farmer, potatoes and fresh okra from the coop.
we started the morning with a bike ride along the hudson river park, biking just past the sailing school pier.
on the way back we passed this little teddy bear who had lost it's owners! we hope he finds them soon!
the girls worked on their book reports. c started writing about the borrowers.
and m wrote about betsy ross.
when it was time for a snack, hermione surprised me by being up on the frig! i had never seen her there before! 
after a snack, we walked to matt umanov guitars to get morgana a foot stool. her teacher has some very specific exercises and actions that he would like her to do to help her technique. 
she needs to use the foot stool, place her guitar on her lap in a certain position, and file her nails so that they are a particular length! classical guitar can be as technical as violin! 
we made a very nice dinner with organic chicken from our amish farmer, potatoes and fresh okra from the coop.
How did you like "The Borrowers"? I once started it as a read-aloud, but it was still too difficult.
ReplyDeleteMy brother learned classical guitar, and I remember that he had to follow similar instructions. His fingernails needed to be really long, too long for a teenage boy!
Your food looks delicious. Do you have an Amish farm close to New York City?
I also enjoyed all your ocean pictures you posted before. I wish I could go to the ocean as well. I love the water.
hello eva, we have really enjoyed "the borrowers." we did it as a read-aloud, and chanda just finished it on her own. i liked the first three the best . . "aloft" was not as enjoyable for me. i think i disliked their new home in that book!
ReplyDeletewe're on a new journey now, with the classical guitar. m was showing me today how she plucks the strings with her nails, and how it's a very different sound from when she uses the tip of her fingers. does your brother still play at all?
we have several amish farmers that come into the city and deliver at a nearby cooking school. they have quite a few customers here, so i guess it's beneficial for them to travel so far. i'm thankful they do. my coop stopped carrying the eggs and chicken from a small farm that i liked. also, the amish farmers' milk is very good!
we all love the ocean so much. we once visited the ecovillage in ithaca. we considered moving there, but felt very claustrophobic from being so far from the sea! it wasn't the only reason . . but it was a consideration! did you live near the water in germany?
Thanks for your reply. Maybe I should try "The Borrowers" again. My brother doesn't take lessons anymore, he's a married lawyer, but plays for his wife and children, I think. We also get milk at an Amish farm, but ours is just up the hill!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the mountains, but when I was 14, we moved to the north of Germany, which is only an hour away from the coast (North Sea). Later I lived in Würzburg on the river Main and then in Bonn (where I was born) on the river Rhine, my favorite river! So I do like water, I also like to swim. I haven't heard of the ecovillage in Ithaca. I just know that the restaurant Moosewood is there. What is the village like?
the ecovillage in ithaca is comprised of three (so far) co-housing communities. they're on a hill surrounded by open fields, with a main road on one side leading into ithaca. here's the url: http://ecovillageithaca.org/evi/
ReplyDeletei really loved it and thought it would be a wonderful place to grow up in as a child. i also liked the community house where they shared meals together once a week.
my family (on my mother's side) came from breddorf, germany. i visited many years ago, and spent a christmas with friends in bremerhaven. it was a magical holiday time!
i've never been to bonn or wurzburg (where are the umlauts on the keyboard?!), but my parents got to sail along the rhine with my aunt and uncle, and loved every minute of it! germany is very beautiful. you must sometimes really miss it.