Compost parfait

I love these layers! There's a third matching "parfait" on the other side of the yard. On a base of the summer's weeds and kitchen scrap, Keith added brown leaves from the trees that turned early, and when it froze last week the mulberries dropped their leaves green.

The Sandias from here

Today Marty's jeep wouldn't start when he was at CNM, so I took the jumper cables over there. There was a picturesque tumbleweed, some pickups, the mountains, and Marty.

There's snow at the crest. Don't know if you can tell. It was halfway part of last week.

Yesterday, same mountains, all pink with the sun going down, the other direction from our house:

Some mentions of me here and there

http://theitaliandyes.com/on-education-sandra-dodd
A quote with illustrations.

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On a blog about infants and sleep,http://parentingbabytosleep.blogspot.com/:

"At the moment I am reading Sandra Dodd...just google her (I'm learning how to mobile blog sorry no links yet). But she talks about unschooling...might be a bit much for some who cry it out but wow good stuff."

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There is a 118 page book about me in India. Huh.
Looks like it's between $53 and $58 dollars American, though. It might be a nice souvenir. I asked Hema to order one for me. It looks to be all stuff lifted from online. I give it away anyway.

http://www.bookadda.com/product/sandra-dodd-lambert-surhone/p-9786136214177-6136214172

That's way too expensive. If I were in India, I would order a C.O.D. copy and bribe the delivery guy to take back a letter from me saying "I'm Sandra Dodd; I'm not dead; I've been in India just lately, and I'm not payin' for this book."

Oh well. :-)

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I had forgotten about this interview:
http://sandradodd.com/interviews/successful
The original site is linked there, but I've lifted a copy to my site. It's been there for two years now (and is still there) but my readership doesn't need to provide advertising revenue for a general homeschooling site.

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I had seen this one before, years back:

First it was in Zen Habits:
http://zenhabits.net/education-needs-to-be-turned-on-its-head/
and then reprinted:
Education Needs to Be Turned on Its Head
SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
Written by Leo Babauta

Quotes me, Agatha Christie, John Updike, and John Holt, in that order.

And in Chinese (Jihong confirms it's Chinese) http://fanyi.edu2do.org/page/2
On THAT page, there are things by Joyce Fetteroll and Pam Sorooshian, too!

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Shadow Cat

This cat hardly ever lets anyone touch her, and I've picked her up a couple of times this week, and she's let me hold her. This time we were close enough to the computer that I could catch a photobooth shot of her beautiful eyes. Poor old crazy Shadow...

UK Style, at Sears, for Christmas?

Holly and I went to Sears to look at jewelry boxes, but found this:





These guys weren't blamed on the UK, as those other things were:



We didn't buy anything there, but had fun wandering through.

Big mountains, and bigger sky

Today Ashlee sent me a photo of the Sandias from a little distance. This morning the whole area was gray with odd little snow in the air, and then noonish the sky was clear and there was snow on the mountains. It's beautiful:

Our house the other day

I love waking up and finding an art project to examine. Marty is making a t-shirt having something to do with Fallout.

Holly had friends over in honor of her birthday, on the first Saturday past Halloween. It's hard scheduling a party when one's birthday is so near Halloween. First they met at Blake's for a milkshake, and then came to the house for games. There was some Picture Picture, some Apples to Apples and some Wise and Otherwise. (Click to embiggen.)