Archive for October, 2007
The Trip to the Apple Orchard
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007We went on a field trip to the apple orchard with a group of homeschoolers.
First there was a hayride, pulled by these guys….
We learned about the plants and animals that live in the area. Did you know bears need to eat 25 pounds of food per day to get ready for hibernation?
Then we learned about […]
But What in the Heck Do You Do With All of the Pumpkin?
Thursday, October 18th, 2007You chop it into chunks…..bake it…..puree it….and make pumpkin bread and muffins, of course. We only had the patience to use less than half of our pumpkin. Had we used our whole pumpkin, we could have made nine loaves of pumpkin bread. Um, yeah…..we’re just not that into it.
The ingredients are gathered, and The Boy […]
And Then the Seeds…..
Thursday, October 18th, 2007The Girl and I handled all of the seed toasting, as The Boy wanted nothing to do with any of the “goo”. We were able to persuade him to lick one when they were finished….if you call barely brushing his tongue across the very tippy top, licking.
This is waaaaaay too much butter. Waaaaaaaay. We made […]
Pumpkins…..
Thursday, October 18th, 2007It’s been a pumpkin extravaganza here at the Freak Parade household. We went to the pumpkin patch and picked out some pumpkins. We carved one. We made pumpkin puree for pumpkin bread and muffins out of another. We toasted (er…roasted?) pumpkin seeds. We learned about pumpkins. We made pumpkin journals. We watched pumpkin […]