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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
kitten
here are some pics of our barncat, Lucas. he had been wandering around our place for awhile and made quick friends with our rescue rooster, Egg-sit 45, (named after the place he was found) and that, is how we got a cat. he caught and killed his first mouse yesterday, a baby. he started playing with the dead, beheaded body. and then he ripped it to shreds and ate it. Yum.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Tuesday Thoughts: starting school (in october)
there's a feeling you get when you have everything organized, like the feeling you get when you look out onto a clear lake.
I get that feeling when I start the first day of homeschool. new bindercover, new assignments, crisp new paper. I open my laptop and click;
Grade 6
for me; that is a feeling of true happiness.
starting afresh.
Monday, October 10, 2016
columbus day
'More recent views of Columbus have been critical of his colonization and treatment of natives.[106][107][108] Among reasons for this criticism is the treatment and disappearance of the native Taino people of Hispaniola, where Columbus began a rudimentary tribute system for gold and cotton.' Wikipedia says. that happened, and also, he didn't actually discover the Americas.
Pretty shocking, too, after we have been taught for years:
"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." and he did, but he wasn't the first. let that sink in for a moment.
Leif Erikson was. Leif was the son of Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland.
he was probably born in Iceland and grew up in Greenland. Leif had two sons that we know of, thorgis and Thorkell. "Leif and his crew travelled from Greenland to Norway in CE 999. Blown off course to the Hebrides and staying for much of the summer, he arrived in Norway and became a hirdman of King Olaf Tryggvason. He also converted to Christianity and was given the mission of introducing the religion to Greenland.[15][19] The Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, both thought to have been written around 1200,[20] contain different accounts of the voyages to Vinland.[21][22] The two only known strictly historical mentions of Vinland are found in the work of Adam of Bremen c. 1075 and in the Book of Icelanders compiled c. 1122 by Ari the Wise.[23] According to the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif apparently saw Vinland for the first time after being blown off course on his way to introduce Christianity to Greenland.[19]"
Pretty shocking, too, after we have been taught for years:
"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." and he did, but he wasn't the first. let that sink in for a moment.
Leif Erikson was. Leif was the son of Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland.
he was probably born in Iceland and grew up in Greenland. Leif had two sons that we know of, thorgis and Thorkell. "Leif and his crew travelled from Greenland to Norway in CE 999. Blown off course to the Hebrides and staying for much of the summer, he arrived in Norway and became a hirdman of King Olaf Tryggvason. He also converted to Christianity and was given the mission of introducing the religion to Greenland.[15][19] The Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders, both thought to have been written around 1200,[20] contain different accounts of the voyages to Vinland.[21][22] The two only known strictly historical mentions of Vinland are found in the work of Adam of Bremen c. 1075 and in the Book of Icelanders compiled c. 1122 by Ari the Wise.[23] According to the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif apparently saw Vinland for the first time after being blown off course on his way to introduce Christianity to Greenland.[19]"
Hello World!!
hello every person who reads this blog!!
i have just started posting on my new blog and i hope you like it. thank you.
i have just started posting on my new blog and i hope you like it. thank you.
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