Country fair time!

The latest Country Fair of Homeschooling is up and ready to go. Meg is hosting this month -- thank you, Meg!

And I'm a day late with the news because I've been busy with our real life country fair, now celebrating its 101st year. The kids and I were at the work bee on Saturday, at the exhibit hall arranging and tidying yesterday, and tomorrow I'm at the hall all day helping to accept and arrange entries. The kids are busy today with last minute Lego creations to enter, the boys finished their wood projects last night, the sheaves are tied and ready to go. The fair opens Thursday, and we'll be at the fairgrounds bright and early to drop off our pen of five chickens and Laura's heifer, then we race back into town for the parade, then back to the fairgrounds for lunch and the chicken show. And that's just part of the first day.

So I'll be scarce around here until after the fair. It ends Saturday night, then we rest and recover Sunday, then back to the fairgrounds Monday for the volunteer clean-up. Tuesday I'll probably have to clean the house and tend the garden. And did I mention it's still hot? Yesterday we hit 35 degrees Celsius, and I heard our province was the hot spot for Canada for the day.

And in between everything, I'm sneaking peeks at Little Heathens, which finally arrived in yesterday's mail...

Celebrate late Spring with a Country Fair!

The Country Fair of homeschooling is open again, so grab a lemonade or a cotton candy and meander through the barns or past the pie-eating contest...

Thanks, Doc, for taking the time to put it all together!

It must be Spring...

because it's Carnival and fair time! In chronological order,

• Susan has the May "Fiesta in Texas" edition of the Carnival of Children's Literature over at Chicken Spaghetti. Looks very hot and spicy!

• Today Melissa Wiley is hosting this week's Carnival of Homeschooling: Enthusiasm Abounds at her blog, The Lilting House. I haven't participated in the CoH for about a year now, but I made an exception because of Melissa, even before I heard about the most recent CoH commotion. Or Melissa's not surprising even-handed remedy. Brava, and thank you.
  

• Doc announces that The Country Fair, complete with new look, will be up and running next month, with the first one of the year scheduled for Monday, June 18; submissions are due by Saturday, June 16. Tentative publishing dates for the Fairs are the third Monday of each month. See both of the previous links for how to submit an entry (or two) or even nominate a post you've enjoyed on someone else's blog. (N.B. I'm having a bit of trouble with the Country Fair link, and if you are too you can always go through Doc's blog or email until things are fixed.)

UPDATED to add: Dawn at By Sun and Candlelight is requesting submissions for her next Field Day, the Late Spring Edition, due by June 6th:

Let's celebrate these final weeks of late spring, and share the world of nature around us. What's happening in the garden, woods, fields, by the pond or the shore? How about through your windows or just a step or two outside your back door? Nature happens everywhere, in ways big and little. What does late spring look like where you live? I hope you will consider telling us, for our next Field Day will run on Thursday, June 7th, rain or shine!