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Homeschooling In The Holler: Some Things We’ve Learned Recently
The largest denomination of United States currency ever printed is the $100,000 bill.
It takes a large Orb Weaver spider about 45 minutes to spin a web.
At almost 42 years old, Mommy (that’s me!) can still do the bear walk -but not a head stand. (We won’t even go into cartwheels –tried that at 31 and threw my back out.)
Peppers get hotter when they’re roasted!
A fox’s bark sounds like a cross between a coyote and a wild turkey.
Chickens can lay different shaped eggs! We’ve found tiny ones the size of a pea and big ones the size of a turkey egg (that had to hurt), but this is a first:
Blessings,
Denese
There Be Four Things Little… But Exceeding Wise
There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
Proverbs 30:24-28
