Pioneer beauty

[OneLump22]

Off topic. Though some of the ladies might find this interesting. I did:

youtu.be/ePG6G8-yczs(Not working as expected?)

[Merma]

That’s really showing that we all need to take the time for self care. Thanks for sharing.

[Bettybuckets]

so interesting! I am a guide at PLymouth plantation which is set in 1627 and they don’t have seeds to grow anything but squash beans and corn. Baths were rare and not as luxurious. That alas a lovely peak at the past. Thank you!

[mariootsi in reply to Bettybuckets]

What a great job you have! That's cool.

[Bettybuckets in reply to mariootsi]

I’m just a volunteer so I meet the guests and set the stage to enter 1627… none of the pilgrims break character so the kids ask me funny questions of me like “do they actually sleep here?”

[mariootsi in reply to Bettybuckets]

That sounds fun! I'm in Connecticut and we should get up there.

[Bettybuckets in reply to mariootsi]

yea please I can be your guide. It opens back up in April but June is nicer.

[mariootsi in reply to Bettybuckets]

Cool

[OneLump22 in reply to mariootsi]

A cool site I want to get to is the Conner Prairie Gathering in Southern Indiana. It's set up like the old French traders' whatchamacallit (🤦🤷).

[Pbsoup in reply to Bettybuckets]

OMG Plymouth Plantation was one of my favorite places when I was young. I was obsessed with it. I tried to bring my daughter when she was about 11 or 12 but she wasn't as keen. I was so impressed by the quality of the presentations and performers, if that's what you call them.

[Verbena1]

I love it!

so funny - this is a channel I’m subbed to, and I just sent a family member this hearth cooking one

youtu.be/9pM5F-zfU5c(Not working as expected?)

such a meditative channel, and gives me so much peace!

[OneLump22 in reply to Verbena1]

Oh Ikr! I just love these guys. They have a celebration event in St. Genevieve, MO every fall that I almost went to, but my health issues prevented me from going. But I'm hopefully having surgery soon to correct it so I'm praying to get to go this fall. Hopefully Ron & Justine will be there.🤞

[Pbsoup]

Before we moved to California, we had a weekend cottage --the oldest house in Warren Ct. built in 1736. It had somehow avoided too much modernization over the centuries---no electricity until 1975! (According to local lore, the owner before the people we bought it from kept a horse in the house to stay warm!) , so we got a taste of 18th century living. It was stunning in the summer--a little saltbox house set on 30 acres that used to be a farm but is now mostly wooded (complete with a family of bears!) . I grew vegetables and my office was in the barn overlooking a cottage flower garden..

The winters, however, were brutal. Temperatures in the single digits with several feet of snow. There was hardly any insulation and original windows, so even with central heating we relied on the wood stove and multiple fireplaces--which meant lots of trips to the woodpile! Of course we had a snowplow guy to dig us out, and after a charming snowbound weekend, returned to the civilization of Manhattan.

When my husband was between jobs he took a sabbatical in LA. I stayed behind because of our daughter, dogs etc., We had moved out of our NYC apartment, and my daughter was at boarding school, so I spent two winter months in that house on my own--the isolation was not necessarily sanity-promoting. (No, I did not move my horse into the house, although it was tempting!)

I can only imagine the loneliness and drudgery of what it was like to live there in Colonial times. I quite like central heating and the temperate California climate!

[Bettybuckets in reply to Pbsoup]

I know how you feel about your old cold family home. I lived here in my old summer cottage all last winter when we moved home from nz. My family spends most of rhr summers heee but this was the first time we had wintered. It has some insulation but was not warm at all. It is my happy place though. This week I had a sleepover at my good friend in the cottage next door. I loved it.

My old summer cottafe

[mariootsi in reply to Pbsoup]

Lived in California for 6 years. The weather was wonderful.