What We Did With Our Summer and Spring and Fall and Part of the Winter

 You may have noticed the blog went fairly quiet this year. We didn’t quit unschooling with the pandemic, but our picture of unschooling sure did change a lot. I’ll write more about that soon, but first, let me point you at some of the thing we were doing while I wasn’t writing.

The gang and I discovered a 1950’s radiosonde on the side of a mountain in New Mexico. We didn’t know what it was at first, but thanks to Dr. Alice Gorman, we were soon on our way to finding out via twitter

@drspacejunk the kids and I found this half buried in the forest this morning. At first I thought remote weather station, but then it occurred to me white sand missile range is 60 miles away. Look like anything you've seen? 2nd picture is housing for first. pic.twitter.com/sExFRDzAoU

— antigrav_kids (@thord_ee_r) March 25, 2020

Dr. Gorman introduced us to a nearby space archaeologist at New Mexico State University, and we were off and running. A month or so later, the whole thing was written up at DesignNews along with a few other articles on related topics by John Blyler.

The Radiosonde Discovery

and

The Radiosonde Vacuum Tube

and

All About Space Archaeology

In the meantime, the gang—9 year-old Daize, 8 year-old Towser, and 5 year-old Tawnse—and I did an interview with the really cool people at the Feeling My Flo podcast, and with each other about periods. The article that led to the interview was from a conversation in a gas station the gang and I had a few years ago about tampons

Our really fun conversation can be found at 

I got to talk about our spring activities—camping on our way to New Mexico, then hanging out at a campground on the verge of being shutdown along with, (apparently), an FBI fugitive—on the super-cool Homeschool Coffee break podcast.

With unschooling being batted around as one of the most misused phrases of 2020, I was lucky enough to get to write an article about how we do unschooling at Mumforce.

And most recently, I got to do an interview with the Evil Witches Newsletter about you know.. Unschooling, and how the whole thing changed for us with the advent of the pandemic.

And that’s what we’ve been up to. I stopped writing here for awhile, but we kept right on doing our sort of unschooling.