Well, it has been far too long since I have blogged. This tends to be common for me in Summer. I get too busy and internet here at home is slow, at best. Anyway, I am going to make an attempt to catch up a bit and highlight some of what I have been up to. Maybe, if I get some time, I will try to post something more historically research based soon as well.
First, we started the summer early this year as the school year had been shifted a month ahead, due to a major construction project with the building. Because of this, we took a family trip to Puerto Rico. This was not necessarily historically focused at all, but we did enjoy seeing and learning a little of the Spanish colonial history and culture there as well as much, much more.
Since returning from Puerto Rico; I have planted gardens, built a new pergola/arbor for outside sitting, and have now started a variety of historic projects. I finally made a new shirt out of some of the great new checked linen fabric that Wm. Booth, Draper is having made. I am now working on sewing new historic clothes for the growing children. I made up a pair of moccasins for Jim K. who will be wearing them while dancing at the PowWow in Grand Portage, MN this summer. I received a trunk from David Lepley who built it for me on a trade. I was lacking hinges and a lock for it, but a friend from out east came to the rescue with a set of original (1785-1810) truck hardware. I just inlet the lock and added the hinges. Also, Hilary decided that she would like to weave a rabbit skin blanket at Madeline Island this summer. The neighbor butchered a bunch of rabbits and I got busy fleshing, cutting, and drying strips of hide for weaving. Likely a blog will be coming eventually on these blankets, historically and today. I also harvested a bunch of willow for Hilary to weave. We have much more going on as well, but it is escaping my brain, and I can blog more later…
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