Well, we haven’t been out to as many places as we’d hoped this year. The year is not over yet of course! We have a few appointments this month and we do try to tie in a trip somewhere with those. But overall, a lot of our hopes and plans fizzled out this summer. It [...]
I found these amazing and funny statues while surfing the net. I don’t know who took them, and in most cases, where they came from. I was surprised at the staggering number of strange statutes in the world, everything from funky cat trees to Alice in Wonderland-type oddities. If you are the author of one [...]
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I finally got this video uploaded to YouTube. Took me all day! It’s the Blacksmith demonstration we saw while at Erie Canal Village in Rome, NY. I love watching these things. This guy is relatively new, but I think he did a great job. And those double-bellows are amazingly large.
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I must be getting old. Every year during the holiday season, I now get letters- those “this is what we did this year” letters. They’re not too bad, buuutt…. they are for OLD people, lol. I cannot believe I have been seriously considering them this year. Yet I’ve lost touch with a lot of my [...]
Believe it or not, we are gearing up for the winter. And for the holidays. I am an early bird– I used to have all my school and holiday shopping done by September. Isn’t that disgusting, lol! It’s great when I can actually blend the two. There’s a neat promotion going on at DailyLit. [...]
I have a very fond appreciation for art, particularly fine art. I was educated in the fine arts, and I emphasize the genre in our homeschool and in our “field trips” as we travel. The kids are very comfortable in museums and understand the importance of art not only as a means of entertainment but [...]
Well, here’s a weird thing I have for you this week. Hair wreaths! Yes, hair wreaths! I’d never, ever heard of them until we saw them at the Old Stone Fort in Schoharie, NY. I guess they were all the rage in the mid-1800s, especially during the Civil War era. In an era when women [...]
My husband came home yesterday, waving a package at us. I’ve been receiving quite the number of packages recently, everything from pinhole glasses to coupons for eca stack. The kids and I jumped outside to him, to see the words “Royal Mail” printed on the envelope. My gift from Scotland has arrived!
A few months ago, [...]
Well, the dog days of summer are upon us. The summer is flying by so fast! If you’re going to be in the New York City metro area and have a Bank of America card, you can get free admission to the following museums:
Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium
International Center of Photography
The Jewish Museum
The Metropolitan [...]
It’s the stuff movies are made of: a young man stumbles upon his great-grandfather’s old papers and discovers a plan for the wildest and most ingenious invention of Victorian-era engineering.
It’s the Telectroscope, and it’s a “tunnel” that runs from London, England to New York City, New York. But is it for real? Could a tunnel [...]
Oh, I love fine art. I studied art and the fine arts in school. I have an eclectic taste that expands across all genres, but I especially love luminism (aka romanticism, of the Hudson Valley School of art), and photo-realism. I have a teeny-tiny collection of Hudson Valley School paintings, and various other types. When [...]
