Hello everyone! I have been sorely remiss in my blogging of late. There is so much new news I hardly know where to begin.

As you know we are in Ft Myers, FL. The kids homeschooling is ramping up and they are under the gun to begin excelling in their studies.
We are using a classical approach to their education. In that I mean we are looking at our world history from the earliest records and working our way forward using the Babylonians and Greeks to name a few to introduce Math, science , philosophy and art.
I walk away from our sessions mentally worn out. It is a kinetic learning environment with the kids constantly bringing into focus what is happening today compared to what happened thousands of years ago.
Questions fly like crazy, often too fast to be answered. We have a theme for the lessons but often travel back and forth over the globe using examples from numerous cultures.
Jean is introducing language. She has an aptitude for Spanish and we are beginning each morning with Ola's and Muy Bien's.
Benjamin has begun his introduction to software game development. We purchased a PC for kids use and he is starting with blender. He is very motivated with this work and shows great promise.
Julianna is making awesome strides in her math work. She is also making friends with our neighbors here in the anchorage. Her special friends Lori and Warren are also good friends of ours.
Stephen is continuing to create board games. He has a wonderful talent for making up new games. I look forward to Parker brothers calling him with an offer in the coming years.
Jean is busy tracking down work with the Federal Government. We are looking all over the country right now and with times as they are we are open to many locations.
I have also been looking for work. In between filling out resumes and applications I am continuing our upgrades to the boat to make it more comfortable. Those of you who have lived on boats know that there is a great deal of work to do in bringing a vessel up to comfortable cruising standards. We have owned the boat almost 2 years now and after revamping the power generation, refrigeration, plumbing and cockpit we still have a couple years of work to do. But we will continue to chip away at the list and when we are ready to go cruising in the future we will have a great boat on which to do it with.
I will write more about our recent travels.

All the best to you

The Trefs