by admin | Jan 29, 2026 | Adventurer, Advocate for Homeschool, Encore
More photos below— The Amazon Rainforest – Pre digital cameras Our family spent January 29 – March 2 2002 in the rainforest of Ecuador. The scariest part of the trip was getting on the bus here at the Quito bus station where there are 400 buses that pull...
by admin | Jan 29, 2026 | Artist, Encore, Recycle/Repurpose
Sometime, I don’t remember when, I began saving old wooden windows which had been replaced by the new plastic type. I kept my eyes open for old windows. I intended to build a greenhouse. Those windows I had found sat for years waiting for me to use them. Finally, I...
by admin | Jan 29, 2026 | Adventurer, Advocate for Homeschool, Artist, Encore, Uncategorized
Farm Vision Board—A Farm I created this vision board back in 1989, in our home in Michigan. Our main goal was to somehow purchase a farm. We wanted to be self sufficient. We knew a farm could do that and it would help teach our kids to how work and the kids...
by admin | Jan 29, 2026 | Advocate for Homeschool, Artist, Encore
A Ucon Elementary teacher heard about the Day Family home-grown rainforest and asked to come see it. When she came, she loved it so much that she asked us to help construct one in her classroom. We said that we would love to help. Some of the dads and moms helped...
by admin | Jan 29, 2026 | Advocate for Homeschool, Artist, Encore
See Gallery Below Ecuador and the Rainforest in the Entryway When I graduated from high school then left college, I was starving in many ways. After 15 years of school, I was starving for a real education. I tell people that my real education finally began when I...
by admin | Jan 28, 2026 | Artist, Author, Encore, Recycle/Repurpose
River City Weekly December 20, 2007 Assemblage artist makes new art from castoffs by Rebecca Long Pyper River City Weekly Rebecca Long Pyper interviewed me for River City Weekly, a very nice once-published newspaper of Idaho Falls. She came to my home and went to the...
