In celebration of National Inventors’ Month, Audrey and the Horst children discussed various inventors. Then, Angelica, Ali and Zack tried their hands at inventing recipes. Janelle, Harlan and Andrea joined us for taste tests.

“Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the gingerbread man!” As a special activity, Audrey and the first graders she tutors every afternoon, read El Hombrecito de Pan de Jengibre (The Gingerbread Man) and made gingerbread people cookies. Making cookies was a first-time experience for the children.

Corn (more like field corn than sweet corn) harvest is in full swing at La Finca. Here is a party of workers preparing corn to make a kind of tamale. The tamale is wrapped in the husk.

A rainbow beside our house

Our living room not only serves as a sitting area and at times a chicken house, it now boasts a swinging pull-up bar fashioned from a broken shovel handle. We use this as part of our physical education program in school.