The Common Room

From the FYG

2009-11-21T21:54:00.000-06:00

The FYG says this movie opened up in theaters last night, and she really wants to see it, and this trailer? It's AWESOME. DHM: I sniffled a bit just watching the trailer. I cannot imagine what a...

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Raymond Crooke, Red Moore sing Crawdad Hole

2009-11-21T20:54:00.000-06:00

You sing along, too. Crooke is British, and you can tell something is just not right every time he says 'crawdad.' An old Rockabilly singer called Red Moore sings it on an old 45 record here:

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Voting Ends SOON!

2009-11-20T23:39:00.002-06:00

Vote here! Voting ends tomorrow, but why procrastinate any further? Just in case you're looking for us, we're in category 12.=) Principled Discovery is also in category 12, and they are good...

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Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley Sing the Crawdad Hole Song

2009-11-20T20:56:00.002-06:00

Toe tapping, sing along music. You ever been crawdad fishing? I used to go down to a ditch near a friend's house and we'd try and catch them with our hands and a net. I don't recall that we were...

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Things that start with T

2009-11-20T18:52:00.001-06:00

Thomas Jefferson Tulips toads and turtles Thyme And Time

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More Adagio Stuffage

2009-11-20T16:56:00.000-06:00

So, when posting about Adagio teas here, I forgot to mention another really sweet deal they have called Link Rewards. If your site has a Google Page Rank of 3 or higher and you post a link to their...

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Duty

2009-11-20T16:30:00.000-06:00

A while back the mother of a teenaged girl who liked to dress like a floozy asked me how I convinced my daughters not to dress like that. Let me back up a minute and say that while I do understand...

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More on Acorn in LA

2009-11-20T14:27:00.000-06:00

Ye stars and little fishes, this one is bad. She wants to do background research for them and work with them to get their nefarious business off the ground for them. And THIS ACORN worker was...

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Senate Judiciary Committee Head: We wouldn't need to interrogate Bin Ladin

2009-11-20T12:46:00.000-06:00

Drew over at Ace's place has more video footage of Holden attempting to defend his decision to try a war criminal in civilian court, plus this:Here's the crap Holder is trying to sell that Graham...

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Oh, My, My. Is this for real?

2009-11-20T09:00:00.001-06:00

Update: There is so much here. May I suggest that if you have students remotely old enough to understand what science ought to be you sit down with them and go over these emails, these articles,...

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Homeschooling andTea Time in the Common Room

2009-11-20T06:00:00.000-06:00

This post is from something I wrote several years ago after a particularly amusing teatime at our house. It would have been, probably, some time in the fall or winter of 1998 (going by the age and...

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Picture from a 1940s spelling lesson on 'other lands'

2009-11-19T23:50:00.000-06:00

No comment, other than it's quaint, and I like silhouettes, even though that is a word I couldn't spell properly without a dictionary or spell-checker to guide me. What do you want to talk about?

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A Whole Slew of Folks Sing the Crawdad Song

2009-11-19T21:05:00.002-06:00

We've got Ray Price, a very young Minnie Pearl, Faron Young, the Carter Family, and Johnny and Jack Webb. Fun times. (following is a repost) For years it seems I have been collecting material on the...

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The Myth of the Soulmate

2009-11-19T19:48:00.002-06:00

The Equuschick wasn't sure whether to write this post or not because having been married just a couple weeks over one year she would feel sort of silly offering marital advice. (She does know though...

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Reading the Health Care Bill Could Take 34 hours

2009-11-19T16:26:00.001-06:00

Our friend David Blackstone sent us this link, with these comments: ... that all three readings are requested. And then let us pray that they amend the bill before the final vote, and have to read...

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DSS and the Waldorf Teacher

2009-11-19T14:30:00.005-06:00

(picture of Jenny and the FYG on a bridge over the creek about a mile from our house) You may recall the story of Lia Grippo, a Waldorf educator, developer of outdoor programs for children, and...

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A 1948 Cartoon Short

2009-11-19T12:45:00.000-06:00

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A great take on frugality

2009-11-19T11:45:00.000-06:00

Anne Marie writes: One of my daughters today had the following math problem: "Brian saves 20% of his monthly salary. If his monthly salary is increased from $1200 to $1500, how much more can he...

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News and Views, stuff for the news notebooks

2009-11-19T09:40:00.000-06:00

I don't know if this is proof that government spending can't save or create jobs, but it sure looks like proof that it didn't. I told you he wasn't going to close Guantanamo in a year as...

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November 19th, S

2009-11-19T08:05:00.000-06:00

I am thankful for a Savior and for songs. I am thankful for sign language so the Cherub has some means of communication. I am thankful for the gift of speech, and also for the gift of...

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Taking Seven Children to the Museum....

2009-11-19T06:00:00.003-06:00

Several years ago there was a Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit in a museum in Canada. It was the last time these works would be seen anywhere on the North American Continent for many years, perhaps ever. ...

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Jerry Lee Lewis Sings the Crawdad Song

2009-11-18T21:10:00.003-06:00

Rockabilly.... is that different from honky-tonk, and if so, how? You get a line, I'll get a pole, baby- that seems to be an early version of 'I've got a brand-new pair of roller skates, you gotta...

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November 17th and 18th, Q and R

2009-11-18T18:00:00.000-06:00

Q is for Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, of course. He edited the Oxford Anthology of English verse, used by Charlotte Mason in her schools, and used by the DHM in hers.=) He is also the "Q" referred to...

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I am so tired of....

2009-11-18T17:45:00.000-06:00

People who apologize with any variation of "I'm sorry, but...." or "I'm sorry that you..." Especially irritating is the "I'm sorry you were offended" sort which puts all the onus upon the other...

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