Click to view and save full-size PNG.

Off to do some leaf peeping and to try to find some covered bridges today with the boys. It will be sunny and cool…perfect weather!

The Loveliness of Leaves Fair is going on at Footprints on the Fridge. Lots of lovely ideas.

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It’s the Feast of All Souls today…pray for your deceased loved ones.

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My twins are turning the big ONE - THREE on the fifteenth of this month. TEENAGERS!!! We’ve decided on a western theme for their party complete with sheriffs’ badges, a boot cake and cap guns. They’ve invited their whole boy scout troop, some neighborhood friends, plus friends from karate…

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A new nature journal page. Click to view PNG and then right click to download. Print on heavy cardstock.

Click to view PNG. Right click to save. Print on heavy cardstock.

Victorian Journal

Nature Journal

Quinn’s Family Tree printable. This is a huge file (PNG format 300 dpi scaled to print on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper) so I zipped it using Windows explorers utility. I’m hoping that it can be downloaded and opened with no problems…if you do have any problems, please just email me (danidh at aol dot com) and let me know.

Click to download each printable. Print on heavy cardstock.

Victorian

Nature Journal

Click to open new page with the PNG file. Right click and save. Print on heavy cardstock.

Charts and posters from ThinkZone.com and lots of preschool things at PlaySchool Printables.

Whilst browsing this weekend (I love the old-fashioned sound to the word whilst), I ran across a couple of websites offering good quality printables.

HS Unlimited offers 4 pages of useful, quality printables. Ones that caught my eye, “Daily Mini Unit Study-Headline of the Day,” “Vocabulary Journal,” and “Nature Study Pages.” They are offered in either PDF or DOC format.

Family Education’s Printable Center offers a great selection and options (to narrow your search) for age and category.

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Two new Nature Journal pages…Click to view and download PNG…Print on heavy cardstock. To view all of the Nature Journal pages that I offer, and there are getting to be quite a few, just click on the NJ Print link at the top of this post.

The mornings are cool and crisp now though temps are supposed to climb back into the high 80’s by the end of the week.

Early yesterday morning Momma called asking to borrow flour so she could make a pot of her cream of broccoli soup. I bartered the flour for a container of soup *smile* and instead of sending one of the twins up the road to take it to her, I decided to take advantage of the fact of Michael being home and took her the flour myself. My sister, Colleen, is staying for a few days with my parents so Momma, Col and I sat around the table for about 40 minutes chatting and drinking coffee. Nice.

Honey and her family just got back from their annual vacation to Cape May, New Jersey, so the twins and I carried over the pot of leftover chicken noodle soup, bread and cake and we had lunch with Honey and my little nephews so they could tell us all about their vacation. They had a great time and she brought us back some nice souvenirs. They always time their vacation so it falls when Cape May is having its huge fall sidewalk sale. I have a beautiful new sweatshirt with a gorgeous print on it from the artist, D. Morgan. I love it!

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Click to view and download PNG. Print on heavy cardstock. All of my images come from Dover or Broderbund ClipArt CDs.

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I ran across a free nature notebook cover  created by the talented Mom at St. Francis Academy…it’s really pretty!

Click to view PNG…right click on PNG to save. Print on heavy cardstock.

Nature Journal…

Victorian Journal…

Click to View PNG - Right Click to Download - Print on Heavy Cardstock

Google has a beta Book Search engine that searches full texts of books. The reader applet is quite handy and quickly scrolls through a book’s pages online. Do a search of your favorite author and see what comes up.

The Rosetta Project is an online library of vintage children’s books. “How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers” by Robert William Woods is enchanting.

ChildrensLit.com offers Teaching Guides, Lesson Plans and Teaching Materials.

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Nature Journal

Victorian Journal

Click to view and save PNG - Print on heavy card stock

Jumped up out of bed and fell flat on my face, went downstairs to be greeted by Yumi’s bathroom problems all over my kitchen floor and her backside (bathtime!), youngest twin comes in to tell me that his stomach hurts and then rushes to my bathroom to take care of said problem…all before six this morning.

It’s just another day. *smile*

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Nature Journal

Victorian Journal

Click to save PNG - Print on sturdy cardstock.

Nature journal…

Victorian…

Click on each image to open PNG…print on good quality cardstock.

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Summer Sun
~Robert Louis Stevenson~

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy’s inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.