Noah fashioned a Patriot axe. He said for chopping wood. 
We made butter today. We talked about how children in the Colonies had to help make butter and how there was no store to buy your food.
Shake, Shake, Shake.... 15 minutes later and....
We have butter! We had it for dinner on biscuits.
The cats LOVED the buttermilk that was left after all the shaking! 
Noah did a taste test with commercial butter compared to his butter. He said it was a tie!
In the evening, we tried a recipe for pecan praline sauce from the colonial life book. Ummm....it didn't turn out like the book's sauce. But it still tasted great!
It didn't tell how long to cook it. Weird huh?
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Other stuff going on with the family: Caleb has taken up the harmonica... not too bad at it either. He's working hard on his college classes and is spending a little time with a new girl. Autumn is super busy with school, newspaper, planning a Halloween party with her boyfriend and going on a few ghost hunts. I've started crocheting ugly scarves again, the kids love them. Also making a haversack (a Civil War soldier's bag) for Noah's Halloween costume. Preschool is going good. I teach science every Weds. Tomorrow is science lab at the science center for Noah, biospere is the topic. He went on a T.V. station tour with cub scouts and has been playing a game on line called Runescape. Brad has started bowling league again and is working hard as usual. The cats are good, except I stepped on Harpo's paw the other day...under foot in the kitchen as usual and now it's sore. Ugh! My mom has been at my sister's house for two weeks and will be back this weekend.
