I’m going to break my post about Dinosaur Provincial Park into two parts: the first on the park and badlands (“the outside”) and the tomorrow’s post on the excellent Interpretative centre (“the inside”). We were absolutely blown away by the park, and how many things there are to do. Next trip we will take the [...]
After the T rex Discovery Centre, we made the scenic drive through the Cypress Hills to Medicine Hat, AB,where we stayed overnight. En route we saw more pronghorn antelopes: and stopped at the Alberta Tourist Info Centre at Walsh, just inside the AB / SK border. We’d stopped there on the way out for a [...]
After picking Jim up at the Greyhound bus station and sleeping in Swift Current Thursday night, we headed to the T Rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, SK first thing Friday morning. The boys were uber-excited! I am including lots of pics from the Centre (at the end of this post) as I am sure at [...]
June is a very busy month for us, with a conference and live internet show for Jim, 2 mini-vacations for the family, and Daegan’s birthday—on top of our usual soccer and classes and playdates. We’ve got to get the rest of the garden in asap too if things will have a chance to bloom before [...]
This afternoon the men headed out to do some Mother’s Day shopping, and gave me the gifts as soon as they got home. A bit early, sure, but what’s not to like? And apparently there are even more things coming in the mail next week. Woot! The boys helped Jim pick out some flowers, which [...]
As the Homeschool Art class was cancelled this session due to low registration, Daegan has been asking me to do more arts and crafts at home. I saw these ideas for “bingo dauber” art on my friend Alicia’s Magical Childhood blog a while ago, and showed it to the boys today. “Oh, yes, we’re interested!” [...]
While Jim stayed home with Gareth, who was struggling with a cold and another bad asthma attack, Daegan and I headed out for a nature walk as part of my Sabbath Manifesto. Amid sun, rain, and even hail, we had a great time on our 3-hour stroll around Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in the heart of [...]
Today was a very productive day. Jim and I sorted through the laundry room, where TONS OF STUFF we no longer wanted or needed was waiting. We sorted it into bins for Goodwill (charity) and Sprouts (to sell at a consignment store). 5 big Rubbermaid bins and 3 bankers boxes later—to say nothing of the [...]
The whole family headed to the Science Centre this afternoon, the final day before it closes and is dismantled to prepare for the BodyWorlds exhibit. Today was also our last day of “spring break”; we’ll be back into our homeschool routines, with new spring classes starting next week. Here’s a ton of pics from [...]
I took the boys for a bird walk at Glenmore Reservoir, about 10 minutes drive from our home, this morning, after hearing from several people on my alberta-birds email list that hundreds of swans were there on migration—both trumpeter and tundra swans. As we had recently read the book Trumpet of the Swans, I [...]