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My friend Scott Strain told me about an excellent book called “ Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology .” It’s about a couple who lived with a Mennonite-type community for 18 months without electricity, and the wonderful experience Read More...
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Check this out--a woman from Australia is living a dream I've had for decades! http://www.hannahfraser.com/mermaid/ My ten-year-old daughter and I are planning to make our own mermaid tails this summer for swimming in our neighborhood pool. Maybe Read More...
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I can't believe it. Real, competitive tournament jousting has been brought back. Check it out here . This is so incredible! If you've seen jousting at Rennaissance Fairs, you probably know those are acting troupes and it is all pre-planned and Read More...
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A funny chain of events happened this past week. I had linked my Lord of the Rings Hike Adventure on to the LOTR costuming group. Through them I found out about Rangering --check it out. And a yahoo group called the Rangers of the North personally invited Read More...
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My friend Shirley wanted to see the medieval shoes I wore on the Lord of the Rings Hike. So, here they are. I had them custom-made when I was active in the Societry for Creative Anachronism . Read More...
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I was working on the morning fire, and had it almost going, when Sean came and helped me along. The pine needles really do the trick! I cooked bacon with sliced apples. The bacon took a long time to cook, so the kids ate the rest of the dinner rolls. Read More...
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Shannon in Middle Earth I must have dozed again. At one point I noticed how bright the night was—I could even see the clouds. I thought it must be dawn approaching. But several hours later I had to concede that it was just a bright night. I had Read More...
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Sean and I each slept on an end, with all the kids in between. So he and I took the brunt of the cold, wind and rain. The first half of the night it rained pretty steadily, on and off again, coming straight down. I noticed at one point I was getting rained Read More...
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Probably around 5:00 or so, the rain did stop, and we decided to build a fire so that I could cook the sausages. Sean and I struggled with the fire for a long time, for the wind kept blowing out the matches and it wouldn’t catch onto any of the Read More...
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After lunch we struggled on, across the side of the second hill. Again, the kids complained and cried, and fell down a bit. Shannon later told us she actually enjoyed falling down on the trek—it was dramatic and adventurous for her. Sean and I were Read More...
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The kids complained and cried pretty much the whole way. There were a couple of paths to walk on, here and there, but mostly we were trekking through tall brush, almost as tall as Justin. So it was a bit hard going, down the first hill, through the woods Read More...
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September 3, 2007: Well, we finally did it! We went on the LOTR hike, and got back yesterday afternoon. It was a good thing we put it off a week, because I needed the extra time to finish up the sewing. I finished the sewing, ran the last of the errands Read More...
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I'm wearing my modest dresses every day now. My energy is climbing again, and I'm spending most of my time sewing for our upcoming LOTR Hike. The girls are at school. The boys and I won't start homeschooling till after Labor Day. I looked Read More...
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I just finished reading a book called Plain and Simple , about a woman artist, having the same restless, searching feelings I struggle with, feel a jolt of recognition and bonding with Amish quilts, then Amish dolls. She ended up living with the Amish Read More...
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My daily journal stopped, because I went to a women's retreat for the weekend, then came back and spent a few days going through a stomach flu and recovering. So now I'm back out of the habit of housecleaning, but would like to start that up again. Read More...
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