Date: 2008-02-22 09:37 Subject: golden apples, quince and the fall of troy or, "where does the word marmelade come from?" asked JLyn Security: Public Mood: happy

JLynn was making a peanut butter and marmelade sandwich, and was suddenly struck by where the words "marmelade," "jam," and "jelly" originated. I asked my friend Morgan to look it up in the OED which she has access to on UMass campus as a grad student. Here's what it said:

< Portuguese marmelada quince marmalade (first attested 1521) < marmelo quince (first attested 1527, but cf. e.g. marmeleira quince-orchard (973)) + -ada -ADE suffix. Portuguese marmelo is < post-classical Latin malomellum quince or sweet apple (Isidore, who suggests that the name may refer to the sweetness of the fruit or its being served with honey), blend (with change of vowel in first syllable after classical Latin mlum: see MALE n.2) of classical Latin mlomeli honey flavoured with quinces (< Hellenistic Greek (Dioscorides)) and classical Latin melimla (plural) a variety of sweet apple (< Hellenistic Greek summer-apple, in Byzantine Greek also apple grafted on quince). Both Hellenistic Greek words are < ancient Greek apple or similar fruit (see MALE n.2; means specifically ‘quince’: see MELOCOTON n., COYN n.) + honey (see MELL n.2

Close medieval trading relations between England and Portugal may account for the very early borrowing of the Portuguese word in English: cf. Middle French marmeline (1541), Spanish mermelada (1570), Italian marmellata (1579), Middle French mermelade (1573), French marmelade (1602), marmelat (1605), Swedish marmelad (1578), post-classical Latin marmelatum (1588, in a French text), German Marmelade (c1600, perh. < French), Dutch marmelade (1599).]

1. a. Originally: a preserve consisting of a sweet, solid, quince jelly resembling chare de quince (see CHARE n.4) but with the spices replaced by flavourings of rosewater and musk or ambergris, and cut into squares for eating; (in the 17th cent., occas.) a thick, apple-based jelly containing shredded citrus peel (obs.). Subsequently: a conserve made by boiling fruits (now usually oranges and other citrus fruits) in water to release the pectin around the seeds, then reboiling the liquid and fruit with sugar to form a consistent mass, typically containing embedded shreds of rind. Also: a preparation of similar consistency made with other ingredients, such as a sweet preserve of diced ginger in a jelly set with apple pectin, or a relish made by cooking vegetables with sugar and vinegar.
Often with the name of the fruit or other dominant ingredient prefixed, as apricot, ginger, lemon, onion, orange, quince marmalade. When none is specified, orange marmalade is now usually meant; this may then be prefixed by a word denoting the style or type of orange marmalade, as diabetic, Dundee marmalade. Oxford marmalade: see OXFORD n. 1a.
Since 1981, European Community regulations have restricted commercial use of the term to preserves made with citrus fruit.

2. The fruit of the mammee sapota of Central America, Pouteria sapota, which is said to taste like quince marmalade; (also) the tree itself. More fully American marmalade, natural marmalade. Cf. marmalade plum n. at Compounds 2b. Obs.

2. Of the colour of marmalade; orange, ginger; (of a cat) orange with darker orange markings (cf. marmalade-coloured adj. at Compounds 2a).

jelly, n.1 [ME. gelé, a. F. gelée frost, also (14th c. in Littré) jelly:L. gelta frozen, congealed, pa. pple. of gelre to freeze, used subst. in Romanic: see -ADE.]

1. a. An article of food, consisting chiefly of gelatin, obtained from various animal tissues, as skin, tendons, bones, etc., by boiling and subsequent cooling, having a characteristic soft stiff homogeneous consistence, and usually semitransparent. Also, in later use, a preparation of the juice of fruit, or other vegetable substances, thickened into a similar consistence.

2. a. gen. Anything of the consistence of jelly; a gelatinous substance of any kind. glycerin(e) jelly, any of various mixtures of glycerol and gelatin, principally used as mounting media in microscopy; cf. JELLY n. 2d; royal jelly, the secretion produced by honey bees to feed the larvae of the colony, esp. those that will become queens. e. slang. A pretty girl; a girl-friend.

jam, n. [perh. a deriv. of JAM v.1 in sense ‘to bruise or crush by pressure’: cf. quots. 1747, 1781 below.]

1. a. A conserve of fruit prepared by boiling it with sugar to a pulp.
(01:43:13 PM) morgan: b. transf. and fig. Something good or sweet, esp. with allusion to the use of sweets to hide the disagreeable taste of medicine, or the like; real jam, jam and fritters (slang), a real treat. Colloq. phrases: to have (or like, want) jam on it: to have, etc., something exceedingly pleasant or easy; jam tomorrow: something pleasant promised or expected for the future, esp. something that one never receives; money for jam: see MONEY n. 6h.

Morgan also said we could come pick quince next fall at her family's apple orchard in Ashfield. Yay!

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Date: 2008-02-19 15:40 Subject: day in the life Security: Public

education arfs freeschool unschooling
unschooling 02.19.08:

JLynn and Emily are playing pretend, they are Mary and Emma, 200 years ago, living in a boarding house. I am Ethel, the boarding house landlady (and provider of lunch).

First we looked up boarding houses, and about how long ago they existed and who lived in them. Then JLynn wanted to know how much a schilling was worth (and we discovered there was no schilling used in the US) and wanted to know what rent would be on a boarding house. (Still haven't found this out yet!) This led to looking up money and currency and value in the early 1800s. Then we ended up looking up the war of 1812 because it came up, and JLynn wanted to know what really happened, since she only knew a silly song about how the Canadians burned the white house. I looked it up & found out that it was true! the canadians did burn the white house! and JLynn went & grabbed her mp3 player and showed me the song by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwiH18QwpU

then they wanted to know how old you'd be when you learned to read if you were a girl. i started looking that up, too. the internets are not super helpful when it comes to looking up stuff like this1!! to look at the pages we hit, check out these tags on my delicious:
http://del.icio.us/rusticus/arfs with the description: "unschooling 02.19.08:"

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emily was using the computer, jlynn walked over and asked if she could use the computer and then emily asked for it back and jlynn ignored her.

it's really hard to be "democratic" when kids don't believe they have the power to assert their own needs/wants

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we also went to the post office where jlynn got stamps and we talked about concientious objectors when she picked up a pamphlet on signing up for selective services. and we went to the bank where we learned about blue and orange lollypops. :)

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now i will go play dolls with them.

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Date: 2008-02-19 12:44 Subject: fun with baby names and the internet Security: Public

JLynn & Emily are playing make-believe, being "old fashioned" girls, from 200 years ago, and they wanted to pick names, so they went online to find what names were popular in the early 1800s. They were looking up "Emily" and JLynn said:

"The furthest it goes back is the 1880s. Wait, i'm going to look for a name popularity graph of the 1800s."
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Now they are looking up names like "Mucus" and "Anus" and "Hell" which, of course, are not actually names. They are just being silly. They did discover, however, that "Dimple" was very popular in the 1900s-1930s.

"Guy is popular. I have a great-grandfather named Guy. What about 'Dude'?" heheh. Essence, apparently is popular, too. "Cash is a popular name! People name their kids CASH!?" shouts JLynn.

They're typing in the names of everyone they know, and everything they think of. Emily is giggling like a maniac.

"Dooty." *manic gigglesr*

Brain! People name their kids Brain! 1960s-2003. Wait. 'LUNGS.' People name their kids Brain, they gotta name 'em 'Lungs.' Ahh, nope."

Reading charts, spelling, history of popular names (we talked about how famous people make names popular) and hysterical laughter. Yay!

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Date: 2008-01-30 12:53 Subject: jonah, age 4 (almost 5) "typing" on the computer: Security: Public Mood: in the saddle Music: tool

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i have tons of pictures from the last 5 months. i just fell off the updating wagon. back again.

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Date: 2007-10-03 17:53 Subject: Updatey! Security: Public Mood: still rock & roll to me

We're going to have a table at the Thayer Library's craft fair on Sunday! 10-3ish in Ashuelot Village right on 119.

We spent yesterday making fleece doggy pull-toys. Jack loves them & keeps getting into them. :) We gave one to Sadie next door & she likes hers, too. We also listened to Billy Joel's Greatest Hits and then watched a DVD of a live show in Germany.

We've been playing a lot of Puzzle Pirates lately. Even Josiah got roped in & joined Travis' crew the other day. Heheh. JLynn and Travis continue to help each other out with Runescape.

Today we went on a plant-gathering expedition. We collected a huge number of plants, and tried to identify them. Here are the ones we identified:
soapwort
purple coneflower (echinaccea)
goldenrod :)
wild grapes! (yum!)
concord grapes! (yum yum!)
multiflora rose
virginia creeper (red leaves & violet berries are BEAUTIFUL)
clover
evening primrose
cattails
wood sorrel (aka shamrocks)

ones we couldn't ID were
-some sweet-smelling pink ones that look a LOT like soapwort, but aren't
- several variety of purple daisy-like flowers with a gagillion petals, some light purple with yellow centers, some very deep purple with - yellow centers, and some pale purple ones with yellow centers that have much fewer petals and are much smaller. Update! Thanks to dangerousbeans we now know they are asters!
- some stinky red berries that look like blood when you crush them
- some not-so-stinky red berries

I will upload pictures of our hoard! For a lot of them that we could identify, we read about them in the medicinal plants or edible plants book. I still need that Weeds book.

We then pressed dozens of them, and made bookmarks. JLynn made some with tape, which she says will keep them fresh looking, since no oxygen will get to them. Cool!

I tried to make some soapwort soap with mint & some leaves from the orange tree in the music room. It's a mush mess. Not so soapy. Guess I need to do some more research!

Last Thursday Jasmine was here for a little while & she watched intently as JLynn & Travis & I made gluep, then finally asked to make her own! She did & we had fun. She'll be here again tomorrow in the morning, hopefully until JLynn goes to weaving class with her grandmom.

Friday I hope we get a lot of visitors, since the local schools will have off. I put up a poster at the grocery store. Tell your friends! Monday I hope to have our buddy Granger & maybe his friend Joshua.

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Date: 2007-09-26 22:17 Subject: Pickle Festival! Security: Public

This past weekend was the Winchester Pickle Festival!

We had a pickle battery, coloring, books, a beanbag chair (and some folding chairs) and best of all, Gluep!







See more pictures here!

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Date: 2007-09-21 10:18 Subject: Philip Pullman is my hero! Security: Public

Pullman explains in precise and gory detail exactly what is wrong with the "teaching" of reading & literacy in this country:

What concerns me here is the relationship this sets up between child and book, between children and stories. Stories are written to beguile, to entertain, to amuse, to move, to enchant, to horrify, to delight, to anger, to make us wonder. They are not written so that we can make a fifty word summary of the whole plot, or find five synonyms for the descriptive words. That sort of thing would make you hate reading, and turn away from such a futile activity with disgust. In the words of Ruskin, it's "slaves' work, unredeemed.”
- Isis Lecture, Tuesday 1 April, 2003

I've known quite a few kids who would have been non-readers if they hadn't already learned to love reading on their own, because frankly, doing this crap just utterly ruins books. Even for me, and I like to dissect stuff. Blech.

(x-posted to personal journal)

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Date: 2007-09-20 16:23 Subject: Lies! Security: Public

marriedtothesea.com

Today the kids started making lists of the books they've read this month that we'll continue updating. Travis & I played Munchkin. JLynn & I made dog toy ropes to maybe sell as some kinda fundraiser for the school. We tested them out on Jack. They work great!

Then after JLynn went to weaving class with her grandmother, Travis & my cousin Chris and I played Risk. It was pretty much down to me & Travis. I think I would have won, but it wasn't 100% in the bag, but it was time to clean up & go home, plus Chris had to drive to MD for the weekend.

Last night I went to the Toadstool bookstore in Keene & got a copy of the Petersen's guide to Insects & a "What Your 6th Grader Should Know" since JLynn wants to try & move up a grade this year. Whee!

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Date: 2007-09-19 12:04 Subject: APPLES! Security: Public

We went to Alyson's Orchards in Walpole, NH yesterday with some members of a Keene homeschooling group. It was FANTASTIC! Click the pics to see some of our adventures. There were some girls from the homeschool group who were catching frogs. There are some great pics of that. I ate so many apples I got a bellyache. Ew.

We learned about different kinds of apples & which are our favorites. I liked the Cortlands the best - we kept calling them "Snow White" apples because they were so white on the inside & red & shiny on the outside. We also liked the Ginger Golds a lot. Some people liked them the best. The Gala apples were flavorless by comparison. We brought Jack & he had a great time as well.

JLynn and Travis are doing some textbook work. I pulled out the handfull of History, Calculus, Science, LIterature & Writing texts and showed them to the kids. I pointed out a copy of The Writer's Craft (Green, whatever that grade is - oh. It's EIGHTH) and told JLynn she might like it. She did, and started working in it right away. (Doing the work in a separate notebook.) She was commenting about how repetitive it is, but otherwise seems to like it. She's not doing the grammar stuff yet. We'll see. We're also still awaiting the Summer Bridge books.

She also liked the Addison-Wesley Science (I think it's a 5th grade book, but JLynn thought it was for much younger kids) and is doing that, and was interested enough in the world history book (World History and You) to start reading & doing the work, and determined that it must be for 2nd or 3rd graders. I'm inclined to agree with her. She liked it anyway & is working on it. Yesterday she spent about 3 hrs working in the Writer's Craft before we went to pick apples.

Travis picked the 5-College Calculus text book that was written by Ken Hoffman, retired Hampshire professor & old Quaker friend of Josiah's and who currently has JLynn's guitar at his house b/c she left it at Friends Camp. :) I told Travis if he has questions he can ask the author. :) Maybe we can set up some kinda special tutorship. He opened up Microsoft Word to take notes & discovered the new "Notebook" template/function and is using that and figuring it out & having fun with it. He says, "This is a really good Calculus book!"

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Date: 2007-09-17 23:41 Subject: This is what happens when you don't update daily! Security: Public

What have we done since then?

We made pickle bookmarks to hand out at the pickle festival. JLynn & Travis each made different kinds and I made blank ones for kids to draw on themselves, if they want.

JLynn started to make a scratch-art paper (coloful marker doodles, covered with black crayon & scratched off) but illustrated her dream instead, then made another one for scratch-art. Travis made a couple & gave me one to doodle on. :)

We played more video games. It's cool watching T. and J. help each other learn stuff.

T. did some cool things in Photoshop today (Monday) learning to use tools & filters & things I don't even know how to do. He's also getting much more comfortable on a Mac. I'll post some of the pictures tomorrow.

We watched the PBS documentary The Vikings today which was awesome.

Man, there were more things! I'll ask the kids tomorrow.

Also, we got a dog! He likes school, too.

Jack!

ETA: Oh yeah! We played Munchkin. Travis had never played it before. He liked it, of course. : )

And! We got some baseballs & softballs & mitts from freecycle and while I talked about homeschooling & education with the nice lady, the kids played hide & seek in her humungous nearly-empty house (moving).

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Date: 2007-09-13 10:01 Subject: Busy Beautiful Park Day Security: Public Mood: busy Music: Travis: the Sims; JLynn: holepunching pickle bookmarks

Busy day yesterday! It was so incredibly perfect all day I REFUSED to sit inside on the computers, so at around 9:30 we walked to Town Hall to drop off our Pickle Festival registration, then we walked next door to the library. There we discovered that Travis had won a Super Scratch & Sketch from a raffle! Woo! It's wicked cool. I got out a comic I'd already read, but wanted to read again. Before I could get to it last night, JLynn started it. Travis put glasses on it appropriately:

After the library, we walked next door to the police station lawn where there's a gazebo and flowers and benches (probably where my booth will be for the Pickle Festival!) We hula hooped, did cartwheels, investigated the white powder that is on birch trees (what is that? what is it for?) found disgusting bugs, cool flowers, and learned to FLY!


( Cut for length and lots more pictures! )

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Date: 2007-09-11 13:07 Subject: Upcoming book reviews Security: Public

Just a heads up that I'll be reading & reviewing the following books in the next few weeks:

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee

Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing by A. S. Neill and Erich Fromm

The Lives of Children: The Story of the First Street School by George Dennison

Any other suggestions?

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Date: 2007-09-11 12:31 Subject: Joining the Unschooling Blog Ring Security: Public

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Date: 2007-09-11 11:39 Subject: bad at updating! new pictures! Security: Public

Whew! The first week went very well! There were a lot of video games played, a lot of computer time, but I think that is a part of de-schooling, and a fun thing to do together. JLynn & Travis have been teaming up on the kid-friendly MMORPG Runescape, and taking turns playing Zoo Tycoon. It's funny that as I'm reading What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee, the kids and I are playing a number of the games he mentions & recommends in the game, including Zoo Tycoon & Arcanum.


JLynn has also painted 2 signs, made a doll outfit for one of my childhood dolls, written a short funny story book and more. She made up some math problems and had me make some up and did them. She then used the calculator to check her answers, and asked why some were wrong. She'd tried using what her old school called the "algorithm method" (which was just called "math" when I was a kid) and we learned about the word "algorithm" from wikipedia. We found out the word does indeed come from Al-Khwārizmī, a Persian astronomer & mathematician. The way math is taught in mainstream schools seems so confusing & drives me nuts.

Here are the signs JLynn made for her room & the outfit she made for my doll:


We are thinking of things to do for the Pickle Festival, which is coming up in just a week & a half, from 10-5 on Sat Sept. 22 in the center of town. We'll have a booth there, and I think in addition to pickle batteries, we'll have coloring & some toys (maybe the marble run?) and some board games. Come on down!

Today I am fixing up the website, the brochures and other stuff to have on hand for the pickle festival. Hooray!

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More pictures


Here's what happened to these columbines!


Columbine seeds are cool.


Shiny like beetles!


These stalks rattle and sound like rattlesnakes!


New dressups box!


Here's Travis on his first day. Heehee!

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Date: 2007-09-05 15:48 Subject: painting & Arcanum & Runescape Security: Public Mood: happy Music: Red House Painters in the other room

It was cold enough this morning to start a fire in the woodstove!

Today JLynn:
- wrote a story based on a painting
- painted 2 signs with her name & flowers & stuff
- got covered in paint
- made a runescape account & played a little
- read a little in the morning
- tried to start learning how to play Arcanum
- did 2 big math problems

Travis:
- played Runescape
- played PuzzlePirates

Kelly:
- started learning to play Arcanum
- primered and painted (antique white) 3 clementines boxes for later decoration

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Date: 2007-09-04 16:03 Subject: first day! Security: Public

Our first day back was a success! Travis showed up in goofy glasses, homemade pocket protector & a button-down shirt. Haw haw!

JLynn eventually got back from her mom's & we got the Mac up & running & then played Puzzle Pirates!

Kelly spent some time trimming the multiflora rose bush out front & put out a sign welcoming people if they wanted to come visit. (Arielle & Stacey each dropped by.)

I painted a piece of cardboard white & then JLynn asked what I was doing with it. I said nothing, so she painted a picture of a scene from a book she read over the weekend, Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis.

I collected a bunch of columbine seeds from the flowers that were growing out front this spring and JLynn planted some in a jar.

I fixed the PC, thanks to Josiah's help, and updated the virus software & started reading the Arcanum introduction and character setup aloud while they each did their own stuff on the computers. T. and JL thought it was funny.

We just looked up "Chinese YoYo" online.

Definitely easing into things.

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Date: 2007-08-29 11:03 Subject: Back to School! Sept 4, 8:30am! Security: Public

We'll be starting up officially on Sept 4!
(I don't believe in starting school before September!)

Unofficially we've spent a day playing with a remote control helicopter (thanks to my brother and various friends helping T. with that project!) and a day on the computer, and an afternoon investigating a dried out swampy spot, and the Spatterdock plants that live there!


Just try & stop us from learning, I dare ya!!

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Date: 2007-05-24 15:04 Subject: plants? and a new cabinet. Security: Public Mood: content Music: chirpy birdies

There are some beautiful plants growing outside the front door to the school. Any ideas on what they are? My Peterson's Guide books to Medicinal and Edible plants don't help.

Also, we got a new cabinet for the storage room! Yay! Thanks Freecycle!



Now I think I will call to check on Mr. Robin.

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Date: 2007-05-24 14:07 Subject: bike trail, historical society, rescue robin Security: Public Mood: happy

On Tuesday afternoon, after a morning of reading in the sun (me & S.) and KOL (Travis), the kids suggested a bike ride to the Ashuelot Village covered bridge, after seeing a painting of it in the grocery store. I said "sure!" so we took our goodies back to the school and I grabbed my camera, and we hopped on our bikes & took off down the bike trail to Ashuelot Village.

We got to the bridge & walked down the pedestrian side, climbed around on it, climbed under it, and threw rocks in the river. T. found a weed growing in the water & said, "Hey, doesn't that look like the applemint in the garden?" I said yes, it does, and he climbed out on a rock & reached into the water and picked it. It smelled like some kind of mint and had a square stem, so it obviously was related. I couldn't tell what kind it was, however.

After climbing around under the bridge, we got our bikes & went over to the old train station, and looked around the outside. The building is all boarded up & has "No Trespassing" signs all around. There are wild strawberries all over the ground.

S. rode her bike up the hill a bit and discovered the Winchester Historical Society, which had a sign that said it was open Wednesday. The kids asked if we could come back and go there the next day (yesterday, Wednesday). I said of course!

The kids asked to keep going down the trail, so we did, and came across the old paper mill, which was in the process of being knocked down. We went inside & climbed around (through the spooky bathroom!) and looked at the tools and random stuff that was lying around. Then we went around out back & saw where they were wrecking it. I think there had been some flood damage, either from the storm of '05 or from this spring's flooding because there was a boat washed up against the hillside. The train cars were all gone and the banks that led up to the tracks (where Josiah and JLynn and I had climbed around the day before the Oct. '05 flood started) were all GONE. Washed away by the river. Amazing.

On the way back, T. poked into a little clearing off the trail and found a beautiful purple flower I've not been able to identify. It's holding up very well in water.

Yesterday, Wednesday, the kids wanted to head over to the historical society the instant they got in. We waited till around 9:30 or 10 so that I could finish my coffee & the kids could get breakfast and check their email & kmail. Then we got water and candy (provisions!) and headed off down the rail trail. We veered off onto the road once we crossed Back Ashuelot Rd. and took it the rest of the way into the village. It actually seemed shorter than going by the trail!

Once at the museum, we just went in and started looking around. Some of the women volunteers were out in the yard investigating a large object and discussing it animatedly. We decided not to bother them. Once inside, we were met by Dorothy Farnan (nee Bliss, formerly Doolittle) who gave us the grand tour. She seemed really impressed by the kids and their interest and knowledge. She remarked over & over how great it was to have people come in who are interested. Barbara Spiess (nee Cook from Parker St. in Winchester) also went on the tour with us.

After our tour we went outside where the other women were sitting and talking. They told us they were putting linseed oil on the big pieces of tannery equipment they'd been donated so that it could sit outside. They showed it to us and told us that it was for scraping the fur off of animal skins at the old tannery. Totally cool!

Showing the ice-box trap door!
Then Georgette Belanger, an energetic & even rowdy woman, told us she'd show us the fire engines & wagons in the barn! We also go to go upstairs and terrify the bats. The barn was just as beautiful inside as outside. We saw where the hay would have been dropped down into the feeders for the horses, and the stall door where an obviously feisty horse had lived, judging by how chewed and banged up the door frame was. They said we could climb around under the barn & look for "treasures" one day. I want to come back with a flashlight and some hand tools! Inside we also saw the 3-basin soapstone sink that would have been used for laundry (soapy, 1st rinse, 2nd rinse) that came out of the hallway next to the giant walk-in icebox.

I didn't take any pictures inside - not sure why - and I forgot to get pictures of Dot and Barbara, and only got one not-so-great picture of Georgette and T.

A pretty gate near the Brown House

Then yesterday evening at around dusk, S. & JLynn found a wounded juvenille robin on Duso Rd. and brought it back, flappy and hurt. My sister Grace called around & found a place in E. Dummerston (just outside Brattleboro) VT. that takes injured wild birds. We drove it there today in it's little box, and one of the assistants (nurses?) said that he seemed pretty OK, and the injuries he was showing last night seemed to be gone. She decided to keep it there for a while and let the doctor check him out after surgery, so we might have to go back there again to pick up Mr. Robin & take him back home to release him here. "Just in case he has parents or a girlfriend who might be worried about him," said the lady at the veterinary hospital. I wish I'd taken a picture! Maybe when we bring him back.

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Date: 2007-05-21 09:36 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

T: "Oh yeah, I did my homework. I watched the Princess Bride. I rented it from the library."

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