What a Beaut!
July 4, 2006 (12:14pm)
70º F, Beautiful sunshine, WNW wind 13 mph.
Good afternoon,
While Margriet is grilling a couple of cheese sandwiches (my part is slicing the homemade bread and eating), I thought I would write a few lines.
What a beautiful day today. The weather is perfect today - light wind, cool weather, bright, and sunny. I should be outside, but it is hungry out at the moment! We had some rain last night and it was really neat to hear it fall as I was falling asleep. Something very peaceful about it. Everything really smelled fresh this morning too. Like that also.
We are thinking of hitting the road again next week. Since the price of gas is so high in Wisconsin, we thought this time we would head to Upper Michigan this time. Ironwood area to be exact. Not too far from Lake Superior and Porcupine Mountains. We also will be looking for some history in the area too. I was up there many years ago, leading Girl Scout Troop #333 on one of their many backpacking trips. This time I don’t think we will backpack any, but might find the Little Carp River again. Do plan to see the Lake of the Clouds, but that will depend on time and weather.
Our parts of our travels have pretty much defined themselves over time. I layout the route (with the help of the computer) and Margriet looks up what to see and do in the area we go too. Boy is she having fun at that! I get all kinds of evaluations of various websites as she opens them. Many not so good and others filled with Ooooooo’s and Ahhhhhhh’s! Sometimes too many things to pick from. We probably will leave right after church on Sunday and head north. Depending on traffic, will depend on how far west into Upper Michigan. Needless to say, we are excited about looking at our world some more.
On our last sojourn, to Old World Wisconsin, one of the restored farms was of Finnish heritage. Actually there were two, but this is the one we visited. It was really well staffed as they were expecting a couple of pre-school/daycare groups to come at any minute. It also was a very complete farm with all of the necessary outbuilding and such.
The house was really the cabin the settlers first built when they came and added two additions, one on each end, as the family and their needs grew. It is very well built, with a root cellar underneath. They had a very fancy wood cookstove in it from the end time of the use of the house, about 1900. Alongside of the stove was a brand, spanking, new, painted wood box. I had fun teasing one of the gals that it really looked out of place there, nothing like the wood boxes I have seen in my lifetime. They were all beat up from use and abuse. The gal tried to justify the newness, which just caused me to tease more - of course. I must say the interpreters were very well versed about what they were representing.
No - I’m not about to use the outhouse. But I was checking it out to see if it met standards. It did - a two-holer with the request corncob. The rest of the buildings, in the background, are also as complete as the house was. I still am am
azed at the creativity of the folks living during that time as well as the craftsmanship they demonstrated. Can’t really imagine building the buildings they did with little more than an ax and a lot of sweat.
I really have been having a hard time getting the photos into this blog. Yesterday too. Don’t have the faintest notion as to why either. I load them about 3-4 times, then finally getting frustrated enough, close the site and start over again. That too happens 2-3 times before the stick. After that I have to move them around some for them to be in the right order and place in the blog. Not sure why that has started to happen, but it only has been the last few days. Is a bit of a pain and takes more time than I want too.
I am building some country-style ribs for dinner tonight. Since it is reasonably cool, I will slow cook them in the Dutch oven on top of the stove this time. Long - slow cooking. Last night we had a pretty much "international" dinner. Margriet made and Indonesian chicken curry with German style dumplings in it, Dutch cabbage, and Norwegian beer (coffee)! It was really good! I ate too much, but there are no leftovers. In my book it is a do-again.
Today is a stay-at-home day, yesterday was too after church on Sunday. We did go out to eat at Grandma’s in Kewaunee though. Got there to early to have lunch so had to be satisfied with breakfast. Since we fast before church Sunday’s, it really tasted good. Major helping of "Grandma’s Egg Scrambler" and Margriet had "Grandma’s Special." I was over filled and too filled to help Margriet with her’s, even though her portion was smaller than mine.
Time to get a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
70º F, Beautiful sunshine, WNW wind 13 mph.
Good afternoon,
While Margriet is grilling a couple of cheese sandwiches (my part is slicing the homemade bread and eating), I thought I would write a few lines.
What a beautiful day today. The weather is perfect today - light wind, cool weather, bright, and sunny. I should be outside, but it is hungry out at the moment! We had some rain last night and it was really neat to hear it fall as I was falling asleep. Something very peaceful about it. Everything really smelled fresh this morning too. Like that also.
We are thinking of hitting the road again next week. Since the price of gas is so high in Wisconsin, we thought this time we would head to Upper Michigan this time. Ironwood area to be exact. Not too far from Lake Superior and Porcupine Mountains. We also will be looking for some history in the area too. I was up there many years ago, leading Girl Scout Troop #333 on one of their many backpacking trips. This time I don’t think we will backpack any, but might find the Little Carp River again. Do plan to see the Lake of the Clouds, but that will depend on time and weather.
Our parts of our travels have pretty much defined themselves over time. I layout the route (with the help of the computer) and Margriet looks up what to see and do in the area we go too. Boy is she having fun at that! I get all kinds of evaluations of various websites as she opens them. Many not so good and others filled with Ooooooo’s and Ahhhhhhh’s! Sometimes too many things to pick from. We probably will leave right after church on Sunday and head north. Depending on traffic, will depend on how far west into Upper Michigan. Needless to say, we are excited about looking at our world some more.
On our last sojourn, to Old World Wisconsin, one of the restored farms was of Finnish heritage. Actually there were two, but this is the one we visited. It was really well staffed as they were expecting a couple of pre-school/daycare groups to come at any minute. It also was a very complete farm with all of the necessary outbuilding and such.
The house was really the cabin the settlers first built when they came and added two additions, one on each end, as the family and their needs grew. It is very well built, with a root cellar underneath. They had a very fancy wood cookstove in it from the end time of the use of the house, about 1900. Alongside of the stove was a brand, spanking, new, painted wood box. I had fun teasing one of the gals that it really looked out of place there, nothing like the wood boxes I have seen in my lifetime. They were all beat up from use and abuse. The gal tried to justify the newness, which just caused me to tease more - of course. I must say the interpreters were very well versed about what they were representing.
No - I’m not about to use the outhouse. But I was checking it out to see if it met standards. It did - a two-holer with the request corncob. The rest of the buildings, in the background, are also as complete as the house was. I still am am
azed at the creativity of the folks living during that time as well as the craftsmanship they demonstrated. Can’t really imagine building the buildings they did with little more than an ax and a lot of sweat.I really have been having a hard time getting the photos into this blog. Yesterday too. Don’t have the faintest notion as to why either. I load them about 3-4 times, then finally getting frustrated enough, close the site and start over again. That too happens 2-3 times before the stick. After that I have to move them around some for them to be in the right order and place in the blog. Not sure why that has started to happen, but it only has been the last few days. Is a bit of a pain and takes more time than I want too.
I am building some country-style ribs for dinner tonight. Since it is reasonably cool, I will slow cook them in the Dutch oven on top of the stove this time. Long - slow cooking. Last night we had a pretty much "international" dinner. Margriet made and Indonesian chicken curry with German style dumplings in it, Dutch cabbage, and Norwegian beer (coffee)! It was really good! I ate too much, but there are no leftovers. In my book it is a do-again.
Today is a stay-at-home day, yesterday was too after church on Sunday. We did go out to eat at Grandma’s in Kewaunee though. Got there to early to have lunch so had to be satisfied with breakfast. Since we fast before church Sunday’s, it really tasted good. Major helping of "Grandma’s Egg Scrambler" and Margriet had "Grandma’s Special." I was over filled and too filled to help Margriet with her’s, even though her portion was smaller than mine.
Time to get a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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