The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...

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[RosieCotton]

I did Seton part of the time I was homeschooled. It was pretty hard - I had no problem with the transition to private high school. I'd say it was pretty solid. I didn't care for some of the textbooks used, though. Lot of Rod and Staff...those are good, but incredibly boring. It was almost enough to turn me off math for good!

One note: there are a couple of ways to do Seton. They do a semi-correspondence course type of program, where students send all their work to Seton to be graded, OR you can (as I think we did) just have tests graded, and parents do the rest.

It's been awhile, obviously. So I dunno how valid my opinions are anymore...

[Alkhin]

Thank you...that was what I needed to know. I think my husband likes Seton for the very reason that an outside source can check things...and it may be advantageous for us to do this at least for a while.

Im all excited now...I have so much to do before January!

[RosieCotton]

We used it the first year we homeschooled - I was nine.

After the first year, Mom and Dad felt like they could put together a better curriculum themselves and were more comfortable with grading things.

[JenB]

Am here. Almost slipped on ice a half dozen times. I need spikes. Brr, it's cold.

[Alkhin]

the hardest part has just been getting my husband to realize that homeschooling is not a freaky fringe anymore. I keep telling him we are probably in the best part of the country for this sort of thing: the network here is HUGE, and well supported. The one thing that we are both sensitive about is the fact that Erin doesnt have a sibling to cushion the uniqueness of homeschooling. She hates not having a brother or sister, but its a deficiency I have learned to live with. Hubby and I aren't doing anything to keep another child from coming...it just ain't happening.

[RosieCotton]

Howdy! Lunchtime here. Mmm...

I'm kinda sorta working on my little sis' story. I plan to get back to it in earnest tomorrow - try to get in 1500-2000 words a day until I finish (hopefully), but I still consider it NaNo time now, and I'm done!

At least it's more than half done. Makes it a bit easier to write, though it's hard to be patient.

I'll hit 40k with it today.

[JenB]

Wow, that's quite a story! When will it be finished?

Grr... have to modify a prolog program and I don't have any neat tools. Just stupid Unix editors and comand lines.

[RosieCotton]

I'm hoping I'll finish by the third week or so of December! Won't have time to do anything but a rough draft, but that's OK.

I might be able to get Stephen to do some illustrations, I dunno. I'll have to ask.

[RosieCotton]

Grr... have to modify a prolog program and I don't have any neat tools. Just stupid Unix editors and comand lines.

You don't like vi?

I've had to use that...it's a pain in the rear!

[JenB]

I like guis. And Windows. Not nasty editors.

[Lil'freeper]

You don't like vi?

It's no coincidence that vi rhymes with DIE!! DIE!!! DIE!!!!

I hate vi- it moves me to very unlady-like fits of rage.

[JenB]

What I hate is professors' example code that doesn't do what they say it does.

[RosieCotton]

Vi...short for villainous.

[SuziQ]

Hey, I'm not makin em, just decorating em! The school is selling these at the annual Holly Fair, which they brought back this year as a fundraiser. No one wanted to chair it last year, so my Girl Scouts took it on. We had crafters and such, but got a blizzard that weekend, so we didn't make much money.

A friend at the school wanted to do it this year, and asked me if I'd help her since I chaired for 10 years when our kids were still in the school. I said sure, and she's letting my Girl Scouts have a craft table for free AND do the Pictures with St. Nicholas, which could be rather lucrative if the weather's nice and folks show up!

[Lil'freeper]

I work in a UNIX shop ... and I adore any GUI that reduces my command line time. We've played around with a couple of options for replacing our SGIs. SGI hasn't built anything for the desktop that's worth buying in a decade. Flirting with Hummingbird for PC, LINUX, and OSX. Now if we can just get management to make a decision.

[SuziQ]

But the weekend before Christmas I usually run over to my brother's house to get magnolia leaves and holly.

I'm going to toss some pruners in the van so that when I see a nice berry bush on the side of the road, I'm gonna cut some! I want to make a nice natural arrangement in a HUGH pot for the front walkway. I've already identified some likely candidates!

I tried to preserve some magnolia leaves once. I wanted to make one of those fan shaped arrangements for over my front door with magnolia leaves and fresh fruit. It would last a while here because it's cold.

[Corin Stormhands]

I haven't tried to preserve magnolia leaves. Wife bought some dried ones a number of years back at a craft show, so we use those. We have a wreath form with spikes for fruit. Citrus usually lasts pretty well (we're not using it this year).

You need to come down and see Williamsburg at Christmas.

I have a nandina bush out back. But the birds keep eating all the berries.

[SuziQ]

Who was David Wenham in Moulin Rouge?

He was Audrey, the irritated playwright in the beginning of the movie. It was a short, but hilarious part.

[Corin Stormhands]

Ah, okay I remember it now. I just didn't realize that was him.

[RosieCotton]

Now if we can just get management to make a decision.

Silly...management doesn't MAKE decisions. They just hold lots n' lots of meetings to discuss the possibility of making a decision someday. :-P