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For several years now we have been going down to visit our great grand father in Lufkin Tx. From the beginning we have liked down there. There are trees, there is family, and there is water. My great grand father is now 85 and his wife has Alzheimer’s and he has been taking care of her for a long time. Starting a couple of years ago we have thought of moving down there. When we went down there for the family Christmas this year, January 1st 2012, we really got to thinking about moving. Popo, our great grand father, loves it when we come down and visit him but it is a long drive. The trip takes 9 hours one way. When we were leaving to come home we made the decision to move down there and live in the little house that Popo was renting out. At least until we could buy the 27.74 acres down the road. The land has Popo’s pond on it and would be great for horses. So in February we are going to spend time down there to fix things up and start the moving process. The official move date is yet to be decided. All that we really now is that we are going to be moving down there some time after our sisters wedding which is in April.
J,S,&M
January 09 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
This week we work on a logarithm and antilogarithm. Which was very hard to do. After banging our heads against it for almost three days our Mom finally helped us. The hardest thing about it was that it was very hard to understand the instructions for this section. When we finally understood how to work it we found that it was not really that hard and we just needed to not think about it so hard. Thanks Mom!
December 23 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
This week we continued the “Ken Burns: The War”. This show, in my opinion is more interesting then the “Ken Burns: Civil War”. Maybe because there is movement and it is more like a video rather then a slide show. It could also be that it is more reliant to the current times then the Civil War is. We learned this week about the the many people that died during the daily bombing raids and how the people at home were adapting to the war. There was also the many losses at the Monte Cassino on the Pacific Coats. The “War Towns” were booming with commerce and there was a lot of discrimination going on against blacks and Japanese and major fighting because of it.
It is very sad to see the number of people that died just during this period of time and the fact that this was only a fraction of the casualties
J,S,&M
December 23 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Wednesday December ,14 ,2011, episode 2 of ken burns World War 2 :
Today we continue the tragic story of WW2. The Americas and British are continuously fighting the Germans and Japaneses. So much war all across the world so many deaths, but through their pain and sadness they push through for God and for country. Thousands of people were dying often so many they do not share the number. In the air 60 men a day die, so they were in constant need of men and fighters. And now the industries boost like a nuclear bomb of industrial revolution came and every one took part. Ford putting out a plain an hour and many other mechanical companies were building war machines, boats,and tanks. They worked faster to build these machines than the enemy could shoot them down.
December 14 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Today we read out of our religion book which was written by Scott Hahn
Chapter two: The Old Testament
We heard about many of the books in the old Testament.
The largest part of what we studied was about History. We Heard about Many prophets that were hated for their foretelling of the destruction of places such as Judah and Jerusalem. We also heard about how many of these books were made and who or what they were contributed to. For example the a book of Wisdom, which its full name is Wisdom of Solomon, is book of praise to wisdom with its long section of hoe patient God is with all of the human follies.
It was interesting to me how they all had their own little description and how I had never thought if any of them
J
December 14 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Chemistry
Today we did a lesson on graph. They wanted us to learn how to plot a line graph and isolate the variables. The Plotting of the line graphs was not very hard. We worked on some other graphs on Monday. On the other hand the work that we did on isolating the variable was strangely very difficult. When we got some help it was made clear to us that it really wasn’t that hard.
The sections were actually called:
Basic Algebra
and
Straight Line Graphing
S&J
December 14 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
I have been reading “Lord of The Rings” for quite some time now and I have just recently began the seventh chapter “The Mirror of Galadriel”. I have always had a interest in the movies but never picked up the book then when I started home school I said that will will read it. So far I have been through the Shire to Rivendell then from Rivendell to Moria and now to Lorian the great city of elves. The way Tolkien describes his world makes our world seem so and boring what I have summed up from the lesson in this is even in the darkest hour there is still beauty and light somewhere. I have made that into seek God in you loneliness and grief for he will give you comfort
December 09 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
The book I am reading is by Louis de Wohl. The book is about the life Saint Augustine. I learn about him and all the struggles he faced. The thing that surprised me the most about him was all the good examples he had but he did not believe them and he just followed his own way.
December 09 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
I recently picked up the book named “The Last Crusader” written by Louis de Wohl. The book is about a Saint named Don Juan of Austria. I am not very far in to the book so there is little that I can tell you. So far I know that there is a man named Senor Prevost who is very obese and is traveling to a small and poor village where he is to speak with a couple named the Massys. When he gets close to the village he hears a bang on the outside of the carriage that he was riding in. When he looks out the window he sees a group of young boys popping up over the hill. He turned around and saw a boy with fair hair and blue eyes examining the carriage. Mr. Prevost asked him “Who are you?”. The boy answered “I am the leader of the “Christians” those boys on the hill over there are the “Moors”.”. The group of the boys that were the hill, the so called “Moors”, ran down and attacked the “Christians” but another group of “Christians” came to the help of the others. Prevost Chuckled and pulled the string tied to the pinky of the driver twice to inform him to continue driving.
When they finally reached the village they asked the priest that was walking where the Massys lived. They found the house and Senor Massy had been dead for while. He took the boy that was living with her for it was one of the emperors close friends son. He took the boy to a monistary because the father wanted to know if had any sort of spiritual calling to a priest.
That is all in know… for now.
J
December 09 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
This week, we began a college level class. The class was chemistry, and it is very difficult. The resource for this class is Western Governors University. As we started to work on it we realized how little we knew about chemistry. We only hope Next week is better.
December 09 2011 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
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