These guys are looking like twins! I can truly say I am on my final stretch of homeschooling! It’s been 22 years since I started with Anna in Kindergarten and her two little sisters who would have been 3 and 1. Now Anna has baby Elora! It’s been a busy summer with these guys and I am so proud of them. They have worked hard for the Harris Ranch, with Jim in our business and for my dad, and selling their crafts at the Yreka Farmer’s Market. At home they help me here. With all the snow this year it has brought so much fruit in our valley to harvest. They have picked blackberries and Sarah has made jam. We have picked our choke cherries which usually are small and dry. This year they are so many and bigger and fleshier. Lucas has made choke cherry and plum jam. They’ve peeled and chopped apples and made apple crisp, grated our zucchini and made chocolate chip zucchini bread. We’ve harvested our grapes and made jam. Our tomatoes are reddening so some salsa! I’ve canned pears. My dad asked Lucas to make him a butcher block counter. Lucas disappears in his shop for a few hours and out he comes with this for my mom and dad. It’s wood he milled from the property. Even though we have taken time off from some of our heavier book study this summer, “homeschool” happens all year round. I ask the kids every year if they want to keep being homeschooled and they say they do. The weather has cooled and I could hear the leaves on my sunflowers crunching in the air as I was in the garden yesterday, fall is upon us. I’m setting up our schedule for our studies and homeschool group again.
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