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Curriculum Guide:

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

Reading:

My Brother Sam Is Dead

Give Me Liberty

Sophia’s War: A Tale of the Revolution

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Lacemaker and the Princess

Murder on the Orient Express

Hitty Her First Hundred Years

The Sign of the Beaver

Writing and Grammar:

Rod and Staff English Level 8

Spelling:

Rod and Staff Spelling Level 8

History:

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and the Great Republic

Math:

Aleks Algebra 1

Science:

Khan Academy Physics

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Foreign Language:

You Tube language videos

Art:

We continue to use our favorite art books and supplies.

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Lilliput White Zinnia is a new addition to my gard

Lilliput White Zinnia is a new addition to my garden this year.

Last year the peppermint was taking over the garde

Last year the peppermint was taking over the garden. I didn't know then how much I would end up using it since then, and I wish I had cut and dried more of it before winter.

What I did do was pot up several pots of it to plant in the garden again. Six pots made it, and they were the first plants I planted in the garden once we had finished the concrete in the new design.

This photo is of the largest plant.

At one point, all the plants will grow together to form one large plant that fills the circle where I have planted them (underneath the birdbath).

Before the mint goes dormant in winter, I plan to cut and dry ALL of it this year. The remaining roots will grow all new leaves in the spring.

I'm enjoying cold mint tea this week with the last of the dried mint leaves and some fresh leaves.

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My husband doesn't need a machine to bend the stee

My husband doesn't need a machine to bend the steel like this!

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He designed and made the fixture to shape the long pieces of steel in our obelisks. These are the vertical pieces for the obelisks. There are four for each obelisk. We are making sixteen obelisks.

It may not seem like much. It's just a little drip

It may not seem like much. It's just a little drip . . .

And yet this little drip from the air conditioners is currently making me 6 gallons of water from the air a day.

I use this water to water my potted plants in the garden.

When the humidity of monsoon season ends, the water will stop dripping. Last year, with no summer monsoon, it never dripped.

It doesn't rain much here, but I'm grateful for the humidity and the water it brings to the garden.

This is a Dragon Toes agave. It's a slow growing

This is a Dragon Toes agave.

It's a slow growing plant.

It's a baby that I pulled from the pot with one of my other Dragon Toe plants. My dad gave me two babies from his plant years ago, and one eventually made this baby.

It's taken me a long time to warm up to agaves, but there are a few I like now 😁

Agaves are susceptible to agave grubs, which eat the roots. They also can burn in the sun, though they generally take the sun fairly well. A lack of water can also be a problem. We don't get enough rain for agaves and cactus to grow here without watering; even a cactus garden needs drip irrigation here.

I've been watering my agaves with water collected from the air conditioner drip this month. It's been humid enough to collect 6 gallons a day, and I'm using it to water potted plants in the garden. This humidity usually lasts 4 to 6 weeks in summer, and then it's dry again. We generally run the air conditioner from mid-April through mid-October, and humidity levels can be as low as 5%. Earlier this week, they were 78%.

It's supposed to drop below 100°F this weekend! I'm very excited! But then we'll return to 109° next week.

I'm grateful for monsoon season this year. It was non-existent last year.

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