The Road Goes Ever On and On

Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said that 98% of the world could not solve it.  The situation: There are 5 houses in five different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage. The question is:  Who owns the fish? Hints: the Brit lives in the red house the Swede keeps dogs as pets the Dane drinks tea the green house is on the left of the white house the green house's owner drinks coffee the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill the man living in the center house drinks milk the Norwegian lives in the first house the man who smokes blends lives next to the one who keeps cats the man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill the owner who smokes Blue...

Me and my family has been hosting a Fine-Arts Co-op where we learn about Artists, and Poets, Old Folk songs, and plays by William Shakespeare, etc. For Artist study, we are studying,  R.C. Hickman   a photographer in the time of 1922. For homework we can take some pictures, and bring them back for next week and share them with our friends. One beautiful Fall afternoon, I took some pictures by our pond on our farm.    

Hello everyone. It has been a while since my last post, and because it is the Christmas season I  thought that it would be fun to do an activity. Paper Snowflakes! Last Christmas I posted a post about Advent, which I would love for you to read! Here is it:  Advent  Here are the tools you will need: White or Light Blue Paper Scissors Tape                              Being by folding the corner of the bottom paper to the top.                           Here is a video on how to do that:  https://youtu.be/b2m-qRkUD5Q   Then cut off the extra paper. Fold the square into a triangle from corner to corner And then again Next, cut in any pattern you like. (be creative) And... unfold. Lastly you can hang them up around the house! You can make up what ...

This week I have been working on a poem which I wrote in memory of a part of our farm. This place is by our pond where I like to visit alone. I've tried to capture a picture in my mind, and hope that it can do the same to you.  Wilderness Song! Where the water splashes crookedly On rock, stone, or moss, And a sound from the tree above, And a crack from a twig beneath. As I stand there the rock crumbles and falls From the edge of the clay filled cliff, The wind strokes the rocky shore, And the sun beats like never before. I stand in the midst of beauty, Declining light and wildness, Pure light from the heavens Pours forth from cloudy sky, And for the last time it brings That warm and open feeling, of light.  The birds swing for the last time Making sounds of movement, While the heron flies out from the edge Of the glory of the water. Dusk approaches rapidly Calling all to their rest, Away, away is call...

A couple weeks ago Kingdom Pen, a website for christian writers, ( http://kingdompen.org/ ),  sent out an email for a short story contest with a limit of 250 to 500 words. This picture is what the writers had to base their stories off of, and I hope that you enjoy my story.  A wave crashed over the deck of the Black Ibis. She heaved over the pounding waves and battled the strong winds. Adeline and Beatrice held their swords in one hand standing on the Forecastle Deck. They were both sisters who had grown quickly into women, and stood side by side guarding a chest of gold. These sisters had come from a rich family of France who had come to trade gold for rubies to an old man who lived in a town on Ireland. But of course, with winds and lighting guarding there way they could not reach the cost. The boat heaved and fell back “We will have to tell father that we cannot reach the island!” Cried Adeline.” Her voice was horse, and she could barely hear her own words th...

Have you ever lived on a farm and raised chickens, or ducks? It is full of surprises, and eggs. In March, we bought some ducks and brought them home in our car. They were really cute baby ducks and waddled every where they went. After we introduced them to their new home, our baby ducks all huddled together every where they went. They would have to get used to the 12 chickens, and two geese who also dwell on our farm. Ducks lay eggs, and this is one of the reasons why we bought them, but we would have to wait many weeks before they would lay. After four months of waiting, the first appeared. How wonderful it looked when me and my sister Sophie brought it inside to show our family. It was really exciting to get bigger eggs, but the excitement was soon ended when days passed without us finding any eggs. We looked all around the chicken coop, the field, the woods, and by the water. There were no eggs to be found. We wondered what could be the matter. We thought that maybe I was not fee...