Showing posts with label Our House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our House. Show all posts

Saturday, November 25, 2023

New Happenings

 Wow, it's been a long time since I posted on this blog . . . a lot of changes in my own life, and all my children are grown now.

But I'm still working in the field of education-- learning and teaching are both things I really enjoy doing.

Since 2010, I've been working as a tutor . . . so a variety of ages of students, with a variety of different needs (kind of like homeschooling . . .).  And also, I have had the opportunity to teach some music classes for preschoolers, and give piano and ukelele lessons (what could be more fun than all those things?).


I still have a website with educational related information and curriculum available, but alas -- it is in great need of remodeling . . . and time has been scarce to work on that, but it is something I am very much wanting to do- hopefully sooner than later.  Here is the website as-is: www.gentleshepcurr.com

I think there will be some more teaching/learning materials to come, since working in tutoring gives me a way to try out different ideas.

Also, I'm pursuing activities in visual art such as making lots of color pencil drawings, a few paintings, and some with misc. other media.  I completed a graphic arts degree in 2019 and started putting some artworks in art shows, misc galleries, and making some cards and prints.  If you'd like to see a few of the pictures, there are some here: www.dianehurstart.com




Besides the visual art things, I really enjoy playing music, writing songs, and basically doing anything/everything with music.  I have a music blog that I've kept up with a little better than this one, and there is a songwriter website, too: www.dianehurstmusic.com



So I am going to be posting again, here . . . to give info, ideas related to education and the arts.
Meanwhile, have a happy end of November.  I think my next post will be about LEAVES. 


Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Spring Gardens


Here's a picture of our new strawberry bed-- a friend was so kind to give us some starts, and they are the everbearing type. Molly and James helped to prepare the bed, getting out rocks and hauling in some rich soil from an old garden area.

We also started some snowpeas, in the side garden . . . but mostly the slugs have eaten the seedlings, so need to get some other things planted there, and put out some slug traps.

What are you planting this year?