Homeschooling posts
Friday, we heard rumors of a Lily look-alike on a boat at Ram Marina. We decided to investigate. Sure enough, there was a smiley blond, just-turned-eleven, girl on the sailboat Sunny Rays. We made friends, got invited for birthday cake and left minus our little smiley blonde who ended up staying on Sunny Rays for […]
A few days ago, Lily came walking up with one of these. We knew that cashews grew around here but we had not yet seen one. The nut, actually a seed, grows at the bottom of a fleshy fruit called a cashew apple. The meat pulp is used to make a sweet drink. However, you […]
Lily stayed in the pool most of the day Saturday. She splashed around with some friends we had not seen since we were here last year – Mallory and Jaime. I sat with their mom, Jaime, and tried to keep up with her and Maya’s political discussion in Spanish. I quickly got lost but they […]
By Lily Fuchs Yesterday I did boat chores. I polished the stainless steel in the cockpit. Dad said I could either do school or boat chores. I said chores. So I helped him with the sail washing and cockpit polishing. We wash the sail by putting it on deck and scrubbing it fold-by-fold. My favorite […]
We picked up the hotdogs, buns and cake around noon. It was a wet ride in the dinghy back to the boat with Lily holding the boxed cake in her lap as we bumped across the water. Once back on land, we performed a little cake surgery in order to remove an unwanted princess from […]
We awoke this morning to an ant invasion. There were easily a thousand ants busily streaming down one of the docklines, across the deck and right into the boat through the open hatches. We have been killing mercilessly but more emerge from little cracks in the woodwork as we get the exposed ones exterminated. We […]
Some kids play in the yard. Some kids play in the shipyard. Molly, Will and Lily all have a bike so the race is on. Time to head back to the boat. Wow, what a pretty evening.
Last weekend was rainy and cool but the heat has returned. The sun comes up early so the boat starts feeling hot about 10. Randall hired a local guy, Lionel, to help him clean the boat and engine room. They also cleaned and sanded down our fading navy stripe along the cabin top and Randall […]
By Tammy and Lily Hello I am a Capuchin Spider Monkey. Some call me “Mono Loco”. Some call me “Hey Give That Back”. Some call me “Shoo Go Away”. Blondie calls me “Baby” in a gentle motherly voice and I like that. I like to sit up in the tree branches and hairless monkey-watch. Some […]
By Lily Fuchs Hello. Everything here is good except the monkeys. They bite, pee on people, steal things like beer, water. fruit punch and snacks. But the baby monkey, he is nice but he peed on me! Snorkeling we saw a huge barracuda and it opened its mouth at us. We got sort of scared […]