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Zwifting on a Stac Zero

Yeah, a couple of years ago I wouldn’t have had any idea what the title of this post meant either. But for the past week, after more than a year of waiting, it’s become a part of my daily life. Well, at

Miranda December 26, 2016June 10, 2019 Being active, Running

Post-asbestos progress

It set us back about three weeks and cost a lot of money, but the asbestos is gone, and the renovation is moving ahead again. First the roof came off. Then it poured rain all weekend. Of course. There were

Miranda November 19, 2016November 19, 2016 Main, Miscellaneous, Out on the property No Comments

First school term

Fiona has reached the end of the first term of the first semester of her first year fully enrolled in school. She has a part-time course load, with just three out of four time-slots filled. She is taking Art 11,

Miranda November 18, 2016November 19, 2016 Main, School, Science No Comments

HazMat Adventures

Our Nelson place is the eyesore on the block. We bought it because of that. It was affordable and well situated, and that created the possibility of bringing it up to neighbourhood standards and eventually reselling it for a price more

Miranda October 19, 2016 Main, Out on the property No Comments

My friend in Nairobi

Almost a year ago I attended a meeting of local New Denverites who were interested in the idea of sponsoring a refugee family. Out of that meeting, the Slocan Valley Refugee Coalition formed. We opened a bank account and started fund-raising

Miranda October 10, 2016 Community, Main, Miscellaneous No Comments

Physics is hard

Fiona has now been in high school for two weeks. It feels like a month! In both a bad way and a good way. Her life has been so crazy full that it feels like a month must have passed for all

Miranda September 21, 2016 Main, School, Science No Comments

A new year: school

It’s been not entirely smooth, Fiona’s entry into mainstream bricks-and-mortar schooling. For those who have been keeping track, Fiona got her first tastes of regular schooling at our tiny local K-12 school. By tiny, I mean tiny. The high school

Miranda September 10, 2016September 10, 2016 Main, School 2 Comments

A New School Year

First we drove Erin to Spokane. She flew out of the airport there with two giant suitcases (weighing 49.5 and 50.0 lbs respectively), her heavy messenger bag (carrying all the stuff that she unpacked from her suitcases to get them down

Miranda September 4, 2016September 10, 2016 Main, Moving on, Travel No Comments

Licensed!

Sophie did it, she powered through the “L” (learner’s) phase of getting a driver’s license, and got to the “N” (new driver) stage. As I wrote a year and a half ago, things are not exactly set up well, nor

Miranda September 1, 2016September 1, 2016 Main, Moving on 2 Comments

Hughes Reunion

We rented an island. We were looking for a cottage that slept at least 14 comfortably, somewhere within half a day’s drive of both Toronto and Ottawa. And the island was what we found. Actually, my mom rented it, as

Miranda August 29, 2016 Family Matters, Travel No Comments

Atop Idaho Peak

Idaho Peak is the mountain that overlooks our property. It’s unique in the area in that despite being one of the highest peaks around, it has well-serviced forestry roads that allow the trail to the peak to be accessible to

Miranda August 28, 2016 Main, The Natural World No Comments

SVI 2016

SVI has come and gone for another year. Registration filled extremely early this year (third week of March) and that allowed me to get a jump on the scheduling. We had most of the basics fleshed out by mid-April, which

Miranda August 28, 2016 Main, Music education, Videos 1 Comment

Distributed learning: the exit

Fiona took some online Grade 10 courses this semester: PE and Personal & Career Planning. She took them partly because she wanted these required credits out of the way so that she can focus next year on the academic courses that

Miranda July 4, 2016July 4, 2016 Homeschooling, Main No Comments

Web Development

I’ve been working on a couple of Udemy courses for the past month or so. I signed up for one in April but I didn’t really dig in for a while. Once I did I decided I needed more so

Miranda July 3, 2016 Main, Miscellaneous No Comments

Conventional wisdom and unschooled teens

All four of my children grew up unschooling through their primary-school-aged years. Their learning was wide open, uncoerced, simultaneously lagging in some areas and massively precocious in others. It was typically highly efficient, mastery-oriented and interest-led. And then they all chose to attend school starting sometime

Miranda July 2, 2016February 8, 2019 Family Matters, Homeschooling, Main, School No Comments
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