History Opinion Poll

To celebrate Back To School time, I thought I would put up a series of History Opinion Polls. I have put in plenty of options to choose from, if you don't see your opinion just put it in the comments! 

I found an old history book for children, and boy did it make me think... now I would like to know what you think!

CAVE MEN 

"Primitive people were wild animals. Unlike other wild animals, however, they walked on their hind legs."

-A Child's History of the World by Virgil M. Hillyer 1924 

Thinking about ancient man, do you think your great-great-great-great-(and on and on) grandfathers were:

Cave Men who had just emerged from monkeys

Stupid in general and their lives weren't worth living-- everything we need to know we have learned in the last 200 years.

Much more ignorant than we are, yet smart enough to figure out how to mine & melt metals...hmm...

Just as smart as we are, but in different circumstances and technology

Smarter than we are-- I wouldn't survive an hour among the dinosaurs!

Very healthy-- everything they ate was organic

We'll never know because all the evidence is buried pretty deep.

I don't see it here-- I'll tell you in the comments

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A Different Construction Site

  That year I thought the smoke was pretty bad. I felt like it was adversely affecting my health. It was nothing compared with the smoke of 2020, but back then it was bad enough for me to wimp out and escape to a different construction site. 

 

At least at the coast, the smoke was just a haze mixed with fog.

Crunchy sand-biscuits and sand-tea for a perfect beach picnic:)

Leaving for the coast (hours away) was not always an option, but in retrospect we should have decamped for the summer instead of trying to struggle through and "wait it out" for a breath of fresh air...

A Poetry Moment -The Little People

Just a little aside... back to construction posts later! 

We finished the first week of school and I think it went well! I have had the very great privilege of hearing the McGuffey's Readers read aloud to me multiple times. I have wanted to share this poem for a while, it was in the reader we ended on before summer break.

Third Reader

Lesson LXXVIII

The Little People

1. A dreary place would be this earth, 

    Were no little people in it;

The song of life would lose its mirth, 

Were there no children to begin it;

2. No little forms, like buds to grow, 

And make the admiring heart surrender;

No little hands on breast and brow, 

To keep the thrilling love chords tender. 

3. The sterner souls would grow more stern, 

Unfeeling nature more inhuman, 

And man to utter coldness turn, 

And woman would be less than woman. 

4. Life's song, indeed, would lose its charm, 

Were there no babies to begin it;

A doleful place this world would be, 

Were there no little people in it. 

-John Greenleaf Whittier

Definitions: 1. Dreary, cheerless. 2. Surrender, give up, yield. Love chords, ties of affection. 3. Stern, severe, harsh. Utter, complete. 4. Doleful, gloomy, sad.

More Housekeeping

 My laundry situation moved around quite a bit during construction. Sometimes I had a line indoors (never outdoors) and if it wasn't a line, I used the scaffolding during the day. But sometimes it was just lawn chairs. Where there's a will, there's a way.

 

Construction clamps working great to keep the wind from doing away with the towels. I ended up buying a pack of them just for the laundry, so there would be no complaints. 

Not much we could do in the replacement RV for the family shoes, as there was no closet like the last RV had. Not that all of these fit into that closet! It was astonishing to realize how many shoes we need here... summer sandals for the blazing heat and trips to local creeks, church shoes, muck boots for the spring and snow boots for the winter. And a set like that for each of us. Some cowboy boots managed to sneak in the mix, too. 

 

Until a solution could be found, I recall that these went into totes. Otherwise the scorpions would come and live in them.