Crumbs on my floor

Thanks for stopping by and browsing through the yard sale.  I now have the 5 bloggers who posted on their sites–Thanks ladies!!

There is still plenty left to buy, so keep looking. More will be added at the end of the week.

Thanks

Just adding some more.  More listings to come tomorrow night.

Thanks!

Flat rate shipping of $4.00. Please note that the flower punch is heavy, extra shipping applies.

Thanks for stopping by.

In an effort to REALLY get my stuff sold, I need your help blogger friends. Write a post on your blog about my sale to help get some traffic my way.

Leave me a comment under the “For Sale” posts here at my place. Once I check out that you have a post about me. I will contact you to send you some FREE supplies. Did I mention that it is FREE scrapbook supplies!! Hurry, this is for the first 10 bloggers!!

I am cleaning out the closets. I used to enjoy eBay, but with the prices for all the fees. I thought I would try to sell some things here and save you and I both some money. I will leave these on my front page for awhile as I really need to sell some things and make more room in my house!!

Shipping will be a flat rate of $4.00. Unless you are just buying one thing( I won’t charge you $4.00 for an $1.00 item, :o) But I would highly encourage you to buy a couple of items at these prices!!!

Leave me a comment with the item #’s you want, I will contact you. All comments must be approved by me, your comments will be kept private and not posted, since this is a selling transaction.

Happy Scrapbooking!!

Robert Krampf’s Experiment of the Week

Greetings from our home at the beach!  Yesterday I finished my last school program for this school year, and I am now taking a couple of days off before I go full steam into video production.  The challenge is going to be turning off, getting my brain to realize that it has some time off.  That will probably require lots of time on the beach, and lots of ice cream.  It is a serious challenge, so I bought extra chocolate sauce.

I was expecting to run into problems with all the wildfires, but the drive home was easy, and fire-free.  I did see lots of burned brush, but nothing that was still burning.  I did spot several swallow tailed kites along the road, hunting in the burned areas.  They are beautiful birds!

What’s New This Week:
Video: Extra Oxygen
Happy Scientist Blog:  Butterfly Roost

Extra Oxygen

This time we are going to talk about a very important substance, oxygen. Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, coming after hydrogen and helium. About 20% of the air around you is made up of oxygen, and it is vitally important to life on Earth. It is also important for combustion, and that is what we will explore today.

You will need:

• a wooden, cooking skewer

• a lighter

• 3% hydrogen peroxide (from the grocery or pharmacy)

• a cup or glass

• yeast

We have seen in past experiments that if you cover a burning candle with a glass container, it will go out when it runs short of oxygen. This time we are going to see how having extra oxygen effects the way things burn. To get the extra oxygen, we will start with some hydrogen peroxide.

Pour some hydrogen peroxide into the glass. Sprinkle some of the yeast into the peroxide and give it a stir. Very quickly you will see bubbles rising, producing foam on top of the liquid.

Light the end of the wooden skewer, and let it burn for a moment. Then blow out the flame. If you blow gently on the burning end, you should see a red glow. It is still burning, but not flaming. Carefully bring the glowing end of the skewer up to the larger bubbles in the foam. The skewer should flare up, bursting into flame.

Why does that happen? Hydrogen peroxide has the chemical formula H2O2. That looks very similar to the formula for water, and it is. In fact, we can convert it into water by causing it to give off the extra oxygen.

One way to do that is with an enzyme called catalase. Catalase is found in human cells, which is why this stuff bubbles when you put it on a cut. Those bubbles do not indicate any infection or germs. Instead, they tell you that some of your cells have been damaged, which you probably already know if you are using the hydrogen peroxide. Catalase is also present in yeast, so when you sprinkle yeast into the hydrogen peroxide, you get bubbles of oxygen. When you bring the burning skewer near the bubbles, the extra oxygen causes it to burn very quickly.

That idea is used in high performance fuels. By adding chemicals that supply extra oxygen, the fuels burn faster, giving the engine more power. Now if I could just find a way to do the same thing with a bowl of ice cream.

Have a wonder-filled week.

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Sunday / June 29, 2008

“O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.” (Psalm 118:1)  Standing in the basement doing laundry, I wondered, “How much of your life do you sacrifice before there’s nothing more to give?” I was missing a beautiful summer day outside and feeling frustrated that there was so little time for the things that I enjoyed. I dreamed of relaxing in the sun with an ice cold glass of lemonade and a good book or riding my horse into the open pastures near our ranch. Homeschooling seemed to be consuming my entire life and each day I felt a little more drained. If I wasn’t teaching my children, I was cleaning their messes. Would there ever be time again for me?  Self-pity is a destructive force in a person’s life because it fails to acknowledge God’s goodness with a grateful heart. The Hebrew nation’s constant grumbling is a prime example (Psalm 106:25). For over 470 years, they cried out to God for a deliverer to rescue them from bondage in Egypt. When deliverance finally came and Moses led them to the Promised Land, they continued to complain, even to the point of longing to go back to Egypt. Although God had proven Himself mighty with miracles and provisions, they failed to be thankful for His loving hand of protection.  What about you? If the demands of homeschooling have got you down, stop your personal pity party and think again about what the Lord has done. Yes, your days might be busy, but God has blessed you with incredible opportunities to change the world through your children’s lives. Let praise and thankfulness replace your “poor me’s” and watch as God blesses your faithfulness in serving Him as a homeschooling parent. “I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” (Psalm 34:1)

Forgive my selfishness when I fail to appreciate all that You have given to our family. Lift my heart today and help me to focus on those things in life that are truly important. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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I am a true Third Day fan. Almost a Gomer(Third Day fans will get that one).

I have listened to T Mac since his Jesus Freak days. But I decided to pick up this cd today. I am BLOWN away. I am 37 or so years old. And I love this music. Must be my hip side of me coming out. So I only had one kid with me in the van and she was sleeping. But I turned it WAAAAY up. Yep, the mini van was a rockin`

Wow, this is music you could get lost in and there are days I need that.

Grab a copy for you, close your eyes, turn it up, listen to it and feed your soul with praises for HIM.

Rock out…peace…

By Robert Stacy McCain
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Home-schoolers are more likely to attend college and be more politically active than their peers, a study says. The survey of more
than 7,300 adults who were home-schooled found that among those ages 18 to 24, 74 percent had taken college courses, compared with 46 percent in the same age group among the general population. About 12 percent of the polled home-schoolers had received bachelor’s degrees, compared with about 8 percent of their peers.

The study, by the Oregon-based National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), showed higher levels of political involvement for home-schoolers in several categories. The poll shows home-schoolers are more likely than their peers to vote (74 percent versus 29 percent), to make political contributions (9 percent versus 3 percent) or to work for a political cause, party or candidate (13 percent versus 1 percent). Some of the findings were not surprising, given earlier studies showing high levels of academic achievement by home-schooled students, said Tom Washburne, director of the Virginia-based National Center for
Home Education.

“We expected to find that they were getting good jobs, going on to
college at a high rate, that they were involved in their communities, all of those come as no surprise to a home-schooling parent,” Mr. Washburne said. “However, we are excited by the findings about the civic involvement of the graduates. Their voting and their involvement with campaigns and political parties is astounding compared with the general public.”

The idea for the study “had been percolating in my mind for at least
a decade,” said NHERI President Brian D. Ray. A proposal for the study was turned down 10 years ago, he said. But noting the growth in home education, he said, “Now we have a much larger population [of home-schooling alumni] from which to draw, [so] maybe it was good to wait.”

NHERI estimates that more than 1.7 million U.S. children are
home-schooled. The new study “is one of the few attempts, maybe the only attempt, to get at the question of what do home-schoolers look like after the home-schooling process,” said James Carper, professor of educational psychology at the University of South Carolina, who reviewed Mr. Ray’s findings. “On most measures, they look better than the general public.”

Home schooling has been criticized by the country’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), which passed a resolution at its national convention declaring that “home-schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.” An NEA spokesman yesterday said the organization had no comment on the NHERI study.

Mr. Ray said critics “have claimed that adults who are home-schooled would be social isolates, disengaged from civic life and perhaps uncaring about the world around them. The findings of this study, however, indicate just the opposite in terms of these adults’ behaviors.”
Among the study’s findings:
About half (49 percent) of home-schoolers ages 18 to 24 were
full-time students. In that age group, 50.2 percent had “some college but no degree,” compared with 34 percent of the same age group in the general population. In that group, 8.7 percent of home-schoolers had two-year associate degrees (compared with 4.1 percent in the general population) and 11.8 percent had bachelor’s degrees (compared with 7.6 percent in the general population).

Among various measures of community activity, home-educated adultswere more likely than their peers to have read a book in the past six months (98.5 percent compared with 69 percent), participated in community service such as volunteering or coaching youth sports teams (71.1 percent compared with 37 percent), and attended religious services at least once a month (93.3 percent compared with 41 percent).

Asked whether they agreed with the statement that “politics and
government are too complicated to understand,” 4.2 percent of
home-schooled adults agreed, compared with 35 percent of the general population.

In six measures of civic involvement, home-schooled adults
consistently ranked higher than the general U.S. population.

Home-schoolers also ranked higher on measures of personal
satisfaction and psychological health, reporting more contentment on the job and with their families’ financial situations. Asked about
happiness, 58.9 percent of home-schoolers reported they were “very happy,” compared with 27.6 percent of the general public.

Home-schoolers differed significantly in their responses to the
question: “Some people say that people get ahead by their own hard work; others say lucky breaks or help from people are more important. Which do you think is most important?” More than 85 percent of home-schoolers said “hard work,” compared with 68 percent of the general population.

About 74 percent of the home-schooled adults with children said
they were home schooling their own children. The thousands of home-schooled adults who participated in the survey were found through “a highly connected network of home-schooling organizations, ” Mr. Ray said. Their responses were compared with data for the general U.S. population from the Census Bureau, the Department of Education and the National Opinion Research Center. The study did not compare incomes of adults who had been home-schooled with the general population, Mr. Ray said, because of a shortage of age-based income data plus the fact that the average age of the home-schooling alumni in the survey was 21 and nearly half were full-time students.

“If we can come back to a substantial portion of this sample in five
to 10 years, we’ll get a much better idea of comparative data regarding occupation, income and completed level of education,” he said. The study rebuts one of the most persistent criticisms of home schooling, Mr. Washburne said.

“Home-schooling parents have known for years that home schooling works,” he said. “What we always knew to be a myth regarding socialization has turned out to be just that, a myth. Home-schoolers appear to be active, engaged, happy adults.”

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Obviously the person who wrote this statement probably gets some satisfaction of “getting our goats”, so to say.  Which by the way, did you know how healthy goats milk is?  Ahhh, for another time.  :o)

We are called to pray for our enemies, please join me in praying for this atheist.