Family Education

Educational happenings at our house:

There is a robin's nest with four blue eggs in it in a very young tree in our back yard - just low enough for short people to peek in.

We've had several rainbows lately.

Last weekend we captured some tadpoles from the pond and put them in our fish tank (six or so are still alive).

An animal of some sort killed one of our chickens earlier in the week. Not good, but still educational in a sense...learning about death (this "education" was NOT graphic in nature, fortunately it did not happen close to our play area).

My husband and I are learning a little about sheep - if we like the lamb we just ordered, we may try to keep a couple of sheep next spring instead of going with a cow.

I'm reading: The Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emery. Here are some (appetizing?) things you can do with "uncommon sheep parts": Apache tripe (intestines coiled around intestinal fat and baked), fried blood and onions, traditional English sheep's head, and sheep tongues (baked in a casserole layered with bacon and vegetables). YUM!