A Hodgepodge Picture

Today was the first day of school for the Hodgepodge Acres Academy 2008-09 school year. Can you believe this is our 17th year homeschooling?! Yikes!
Anyway - at one point I was making my rounds checking on my students and did not find Beka - when asking where she was I was told 'the deck' - I expected to see her playing but instead found her outside doing her school work with a kitten (Fritz to be exact!) snuggled up beside her school book. This picture is even more fun (to me anyway!) due to the chicken wandering by - this is an old chicken of ours we can not keep in the pen, the best we can figure she thinks she is a cat - I also love the stack of wood to the left side. Dennis was off last week and having wood ready to go was a goal of his. He did good! :) We are all looking forward to those first couple of fires come this fall.