Tag: life with dogs
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Our sweet nurse dog
Lacy the WonderDog can be a pain. She barks at the mail carrier. She sheds too much. She sneaks onto the furniture when she isn’t suppose to. She tracks mud into the house. She once ate the cord on the Dyson vacuum, and she has a fondness for stealing socks. But…this is where Lacy has…
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Snowy Fun in the sunny South!
This is a view I don’t often see out my window… On the rare occasions we do get snow here, it tends to be mostly ice, so it’s not very fun to play in. Yesterday, however, we had a nice fluffy snow — about five inches, which is the most Kathryn has ever seen, and…
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Nature Study – Oak Trees
For Outdoor Hour Challenge #33, we studied oak trees. We have one fairly large oak in our yard. I find it quite interesting because when we moved in, we thought it was dead because it was March and all the leaves on the tree were brown. I mentioned to my dad one day when he…
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Nature Study: Dandelion
For this week’s nature study, we’re continuing our flower study with Outdoor Hour Challenge #14. As part of the challenge, we chose another flower to study in detail, and this week’s lucky winner was the plentiful and sturdy dandelion. Has anybody noticed that two out of three of our flower studies have been weeds? You’d…