DJ H.

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A Grand Re-Opening of My Seven Pillars Book Nook

DJ H. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 9:41 pm
Do you enjoy reading and sharing good literature, "Living Books", with your children? Do you want good read aloud books to read...
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Evening Landscapes

DJ H. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 2:57 pm
Softly the evening came. The sun from the horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand o’er the landscape; Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and earth and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch an...
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Grammar Help - "Affect" Versus "Effect"

DJ H. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 2:46 pm
I always squirm and have to think about it because I just can't remember the correct use of these two words BUT I've found some thing that I think will help me. Grammar Girl has a mnemonic hel...
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Two New Kinds of Apples - Honey Crisp & Candy Crisp

DJ H. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 1:41 pm
I have been wanting to find Honey Crisp apples for a couple of years now and finally was able to find them locally. They are fairly new, at least in our area. Honey Crisp Juicy, mostly sweet, some ta...
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S510 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

DJ H. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 7:09 pm
Read the S510 bill . Watch the Senate Hearing Committee live -- around 70 minutes mark they discuss farmers markets, small local and organic farm and how it will affect them. Read more from the Farm-...
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"A great painter is at work...."

DJ H. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 1:54 pm
"Think what a change, unperceived by many, has within a month come over the landscape! Then the general, the universal, hue was green. Now see those brilliant scarlet and glowing yellow trees in the l...
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Black Cat Cookies & Falling Leaves & Wordsworth

DJ H. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 8:26 pm
Orangeblossom has been baking sweet treats for the grandmas and for us again this week. These turned out really cute and taste like a brownie in a cookie. Ingredients: 1 cup butter (no substitutes)...
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Free Audio Download "Here I Stand" For Reformation Day

DJ H. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 1:15 pm
"In the late afternoon of April 18, 1521, in the city of Worms, Germany, Martin Luther, a 37 year-old Catholic monk was called to defend himself before Charles the Fifth, the Holy Roman Emperor. The s...
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True Education Is Repentance......

DJ H. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 1:03 pm
"At the beginning of every academic year I like to remind myself and my students that true education is a form of repentance. It is a humble admission that we've not read all that we need to read,...
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Poetry, Music, and Muffins of Autumn

DJ H. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 4:11 pm
AUTUMN With what a glory comes and goes the year! The buds of spring, those beautiful harbingers Of sunny skies and cloudless times, enjoy Life's newness, and earth's garniture spread out; An...
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Not Looking To Myselff But At What God Is, What Christ Is

DJ H. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 9:44 am
by Charles Spurgeon "It is not the healthy who need a doctor--but the sick!" Matthew 9:12 How frequently you who are coming to Christ look to yourselves. "O!" you say, "I do not repent enough." Tha...
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The actual work of the teacher consists of the awakening...

DJ H. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 6:36 am
"The actual work of the teacher consists of the awakening and setting in action the mind of the pupil, the arousing of his self-activities… All explanation and exposition are useless except as they ...
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I Learned Most, Not From.....

DJ H. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 11:22 am
"I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me." ~St. Augustine~
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When does education begin?

DJ H. posted an article on - Sep 19, 2009, 7:09 pm
"When a baby is picked up, spoken to, and loved, he is starting his education as God planned it. For all our lives we are human beings, in an active state of learning, responding, understanding. Educa...
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What can the parent do?

DJ H. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 2:00 pm
"...what can the parent do? ...he can present the idea of God to the soul of the child. Here, as throughout his universe, Almighty God works by apparently inadequate means. Who would say that a bee ca...
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Constitution Day - We the People

DJ H. posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 10:17 am
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure th...
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Learning is not attained by chance......

DJ H. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2009, 9:51 am
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~Abigail Adams~
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The Question Is Not, How Much Does The Youth Know When.....

DJ H. posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 2:13 pm
"The question is not, how much does the youth know when he has finished his education but how much does he care and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in whic...
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True education is a kind of never ending story....

DJ H. posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 6:09 pm
"True education is a kind of never ending story - a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness." ~J.R.R.Tolkien~
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Students learn what they care about....

DJ H. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 3:07 pm
"Students learn what they care about . . .," Stanford Ericksen has said, but Goethe knew something else: "In all things we learn only from those we love." Add to that Emerson's declaration: "the s...
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Quotes About Education, Teaching, Learning, Homeschool

DJ H. posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 7:03 pm
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." ~Joseph Addison~ Suffer Little Children to Come to Me by John Gibson (sometimes entitled, "Christ Blessing the Little Children"). M...
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It's The Time of Year I Ask Myself The Same Question...

DJ H. posted an article on - Aug 29, 2009, 2:29 pm
"What is education?" and re-read through my favorite education, teaching, learning, homeschool quotes. One of my favorites is really a definition. Dana asked the same question and mentioned in her pos...
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August Light and Colors Are Changing.....

DJ H. posted an article on - Aug 27, 2009, 5:11 pm
I've been slowed down by the warm sunlight, pausing quite often this past month to linger in that last of the summer life in my garden. The mild temperature has put the the tomatoes in slow mode a...
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Psalm 103 - Scottish Psalter 1650 (ACapella)

DJ H. posted an article on - Aug 4, 2009, 12:11 pm

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Another Two Weeks Of Growth For The Sunflowers

DJ H. posted an article on - Jul 21, 2009, 2:19 pm
The garden has continued to grow with the Sunflowers towering eleven feet overhead now, shading my poor little tomato plant too much, so it isn't doing well. The Asian Cucumbers and Kentucky Wonde...
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Summer Time Keeps Me Away From The Computer

DJ H. posted an article on - Jul 20, 2009, 8:19 pm
Summer days come and go, some times slowly, some times swiftly. Either way, I haven't managed to get back on the computer much. My days are filled with our own yard and garden work and being miser...
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Sunflowers Still Taller and Growing

DJ H. posted an article on - Jul 7, 2009, 2:36 pm
The Sunflowers are getting harder to measure. I have to use one of my 6 foot poles to be able to get an approximate measurement of 10 feet, this on July 6th, a week later:
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Garden Growings Update

DJ H. posted an article on - Jul 7, 2009, 9:28 am
Just in from watering the garden and got my current pictures uploaded..... Kale is curly and green: Two of seven different kinds of lettuce growing in our lettuce containers - Jericho lettuce from ...
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Sunflower Growth

DJ H. posted an article on - Jul 2, 2009, 8:39 am
These are the Sunflowers on June 30th, two weeks later - approximately 8.5 to 9 feet tall. The flower heads are just beginning to develop and show:
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