I learned all about the nesting habits and behavior of robins.
Barkers Island, an island in the harbor of the St. Louis River that stretches from Duluth across the front of Superior Wisconsin was not always an island. Barker, who owned a dredging company had a bad business deal with James Pattison, and decided to have all the dredged debris deposited in the harbor right in front of Pattison’s 42 room Victorian mansion to ruin Pattison’s view. Pattison was a guy who did a lot for hills community and probably had a lot of great qualities, but he was also a scoundrel in so very many ways. I learned all about it while touring Fairlawn Mansion in Superior. It was so fascinating my brain is still making up stories about his family, trying to put things together.
I learned how to put my hair up in a sock bun! Where have sock buns been my whole life? How could I have not known about them before? Why didn’t I research hairdos (for people with super fine thin hair) on the internet previous to this month? Now, not only will my hair look 20 times thicker than it really is, I have a use for all of those miscellaneous socks who have lost their mates.
The polenta my husband makes is really not so very bad after all, especially if I am really hungry on a camping trip and he puts cheese in the polenta. The mushy texture didn’t work for me the first two times I tasted polenta last year. As Mr. TOF observed, “I don’t like it. It’s already chewed.” That kind of describes the texture of polenta. It works great when you are hungry, though, and the other kidlets love it.
Clean the herb scissors from the outside, not the inside. Ouch!
Basil on pizza is really yummy.
The engine room in a 1930’s ore boat was incredibly noisy and swelteringly hot, and I’m pretty grateful it isn’t my lot in life to have to work in one.
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