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Did you know that trees are Big, Fat Liars?

Did you know that trees are Big, Fat Liars?

They are. We live in Montana, surrounded by millions of acres of pine forests. So each year for a Christmas tree we pay the National Forest $5 and head into the woods to find our tree. The biggest problem we have is that the average tree height is something like 40...

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Did you know it’s easy to read a million words?

Did you know it’s easy to read a million words?

Fun fact for the day: It's true. I ran the numbers. And that’s at an average reading speed of about one page per minute. Fast readers can read around 5 million words in a year, just reading 15 minutes each day!

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Caterpillars hanging by their bums…and book news.

Caterpillars hanging by their bums…and book news.

We bought a butterfly kit. This makes me feel as though I'm doing a good job homeschooling, because kids are supposed to watch caterpillars turn into butterflies, right? Never mind the fact that I never saw a caterpillar turn into a butterfly when I was a kid. It...

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Nefarious

Nefarious

It’s open burn season in the mountains right now and that means cool, drizzly March days with a big fire in the yard as we burn the remains of several creepy old sheds that our property held. I love open burn season. On Sunday, we also managed to remember that, since...

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A worm by any other name would still be…a caterpillar?

A worm by any other name would still be…a caterpillar?

Today's post is a throwback from two years ago, but unfortunately, a little piece of it has resurfaced and made it newly relevant to my life. My youngest son, dubbed appropriately Chaos, has a talent for making up words he thinks are nonsense, but in fact are not....

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I have a spider problem.

I have a spider problem.

I’m having a spider problem. The problem is that they seem to really like me. I’m not particularly scared of spiders, but they do have that pop-out-of-no-where-to-freak-you-out factor. Normally, spiders just stick to ceilings and dark corners, but lately they’ve been...

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Howls and Spinning

Howls and Spinning

Parenting is tricky.   One part of the trickiness is that kids are just weird. Usually their weirdness ebbs and flows so that a strange mannerism will appear for a few weeks, then disappear and no one will remember. But how are you supposed to know which weird things...

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Happy Tuesday

Happy Tuesday

It’s Tuesday again and I’ve got nothing. So, I’m just going to do the best I can. Today that best is a joke I heard from a nine-year-old. Adjust your expectations accordingly. (Drumroll please…) What has a bottom on the top? There you go, it’s actually more of a...

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