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This staircase, inside a lighthouse, makes me want to be a lighthouse keeper!
This staircase, inside a lighthouse, makes me want to be a lighthouse keeper!
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Howard is number one, but the first (and only) lighthouse keeper I knew was a neighbor of ours when I was very young. He was retired, and had some hearing loss from the foghorn, which we could easily hear five miles away, maybe ten. I remember reading about the Fire Island lightship; they had an alarm that went off before the horn, giving anyone outside just enough time to get inside and close the door--hopefully. Anybody caught outside would would fall to their knees in agony, with blood coming from all their mucous membranes--ears, eyes, nose, mouth. It was that loud. A simple LIGHThouse would be another matter, though.
ReplyDeleteAttractive staircase, but it reminds me of the staircase winding around inside the tower of a ruined 14th(?)-century castle I saw in Scorland. The staircase led up to the room where the lord and lady of the castle slept, and when I saw how small that room was I decided I didn't really want to live in the 14th century.
ReplyDeleteI also saw the restored Stirling castle (17th century) on that trip, and that looked like a much more attractive place to live.
Stunning picture, listener! And I agree. But then I've always been a fan of round buildings and light houses. I actually have a friend who's an itinerant (he lets regular keepers go on vacations) light house keeper in BC. Absolutely fascinating fella.
ReplyDeleteOooohhh, I'd loooove that job!!
ReplyDeleteThese days one could carry along a pair of set noise filtering headphones!!
ReplyDeleteAh, Bill, without central heating you'd want the room to be very small, so that you'd get all the benefit of your own body heat. "Bundling" was the way to stay warm, too. Something tells me that would be puddle's preferred way of solving her night chill issues. ;-) Gotta get that guy of yours up and runnin', puddle! ♥
ReplyDeleteWell, all the little girls have left, and all the big people too. It was wild and zany around here much of the day!!! Hubby and I were the short order cooks in the kitchen. He made bacon for the carnivores (out on the back porch so it wouldn't gross out the vegetarians. Then he made home fries and pancakes. Meanwhile I sauteed the onions, red peppers and green peppers and had sliced mushrooms and fresh spinach on hands and took orders for omlettes. We were the short order cooks and fed the ravenous hoard. Then we had chance to get a bite too. Then we all had our Second Breakfast of Pumpkin Bread, Coffee Cake, Sweet Porato Bread and fruit that everyone brought along. There was so much food that after warming up the huge Apple Crisp I'd made I forgot to set it out!
ReplyDeleteThen we all went outside for a little fun with the little girls, giving them silly wagon rides. And Littlest*Granddaughter played with our fancy little broomstick on the porch part of the time too. It's a small hand-made, old-fashioned hearth broom, and it's taller than she is! :-D
Ahhhh. Then suddenly they all departed except our Son*Who*Is*Fourth*Child, who stayed to talk for awhile, and that was nice too. We put the Apple Crisp to good use, then. Hubby is now napping, then we may get in a brief foliage drive before heading to the theatre tonight for a presentation on Bees, in support of Fourth*Child, who is presenting the introduction to the documentary film!
It has been nice to sit here with my feet up. Hubby will do the driving, and tomorrow we get to sleep in as late as we wish! Yayyyy! While I am sleeping in, tomorrow, the local shop will be putting new snow tires on my car. Awesome! Then we'll be all ready for winter. Yayyy!
Well, all the little girls have left, and all the big people too. It was wild and zany around here much of the day!!! Hubby and I were the short order cooks in the kitchen. He made bacon for the carnivores (out on the back porch so it wouldn't gross out the vegetarians). Then he made home fries and pancakes. Meanwhile I sauteed the onions, red peppers and green peppers and had sliced mushrooms and fresh spinach on hands and took orders for omelettes. We fed the whole ravenous hoard...who included my dearest friend, Dory, and her daughter, Claire. I got the most wonderful HUG from Dory, who has been in California all Summer!! Ohhhh, how I missed that woman!! Then Hubby and I had chance to get a bite too.
ReplyDeleteThen we all had our Second Breakfast of Pumpkin Bread, Coffee Cake, Sweet Potato Bread and fruit that everyone brought along. There was so much food that after warming up the huge Apple Crisp I'd made I forgot to set it out!
Then we all went outside for a little fun with the little girls, giving them silly wagon rides. And Littlest*Granddaughter played with our fancy little broomstick on the porch part of the time too. It's a small hand-made, old-fashioned hearth broom, and it's taller than she is! Laughing
Ahhhh. Then suddenly they all departed except our Son*Who*Is*Fourth*Child, who stayed to talk for awhile, and that was nice too. We put the Apple Crisp to good use, then. Hubby is now napping, then we may get in a brief foliage drive before heading to the theatre tonight for a presentation on Bees, in support of Fourth*Child, who is presenting the introduction to the documentary film!
It has been nice to sit here with my feet up. Hubby will do the driving, and tomorrow we get to sleep in as late as we wish! Yayyyy! While I am sleeping in, tomorrow, the local shop will be putting new snow tires on my car. Awesome! Then we'll be all ready for winter. Yayyy!
Not only small rooms, but no central heat *and* no bathrooms! It's swell being a Medievalist, but I'm really glad to live when I do.
ReplyDeleteOh, my goodness! Can I come to your house for Sunday breakfast next week?
ReplyDeleteAlan, I don't actually need to learn how to orchestrate, just to do simple arrangements for voice and piano, you know, to make sure my songs are as polished and professional as possible. If anyone ever decides to perform them, it's on that end where the orchestration, if any, will happen. This book just happens to teach both.
ReplyDeleteSure! Only problem is, next weekend we'll be in Maine!
ReplyDeleteP.S.: The sliced mushrooms and fresh spinach were on hand, not on hands. At least, most of us ate with our forks. LOL!
ReplyDeleteYou're right about the wish for a proposed solution to the cold, lol!
ReplyDeleteAlly update at baby ~~
http://eatapyzch.blogspot.com/
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=allys
Holy Cannoli! Look out northern Philippines!!!!!
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Actually, it's the lack of toilet paper that least appeals to me. The rest I can ace, one way or another. . . .
ReplyDeleteActually, BATH rooms, as well as baths, were far more common in the middle ages than in the renaissance and well into "modern" times. (The place at Versailles, for instance, had NO arrangements for bathing.) Public baths got a bad reputation as places of liason and prostitution (whence the colloquial English "stew" for a house of ill repute) and were closed as public nuisances.
ReplyDeleteActually, BATHrooms, as well as baths, were far more common in the Middle Ages than in the Renaissance and well into modern times. (The palace at Versailles, for instance, had NO arrangements for bathing.) Public baths gained a bad reputation in the late Middle Ages as loci of prostitution (whence the colloquial English "stew" for a house of ill repute) and were closed as public nuisances. And apropos of nothing other than the Middle Ages, the circular staircase in a medieval castle donjon would have spiraled the opposite direction to cramp the sword orms of ascending soldiers.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear Ally is listening to her body. That's a good thing for anyone of any age, and she so young!
ReplyDeleteI am excused from working in the yard today, on account of a very little rain and rumors of thunderstorms. It's a little cooler--in the 70's, they say. I made a Dutch Baby (flour, eggs, milk, nutmeg and bake in the oven) this morning, installed and set up a new DVD/VHS/recorder (our old one croaked), and while Miyoko is off to a sort of old-fashioned Japanese sung poetry recitation I have been copying a set of DVD's she wanted to make (she just asked me to label the discs). All that should get me a husband point or two. I am also making a sort of old-fashioned vegetable salad--boiled up some frozen mixed vegetables, put into the refrigerator to chill, and will mix with chopped fresh onions, salt, coarse pepper and mayonnaise. I was hungry for that. A very restful day.
ReplyDeleteYes, you definitely deserve a husband point.
ReplyDeleteYour salad sounds good to. Lots of good eating going on around here today.
listener ~
ReplyDeleteYes, that makes sense, I guess. Scandanavian closet beds don't seem to have made it to Scotland. I'm not sure about fireplaces, either. At this castle the kitchen was a separate, outside building as though they didn't grasp the concept of chimneys to carry off the smoke.
Three cheers for Benjamin Frinklin, the inventor of the stove!
Alan ~
ReplyDeleteYes, I didn't notice at the time but you're right about the direction of the spiral.
LOVE Dutch Babies!! Absolutely wonderful stuff!! Many hubby points to you.
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ReplyDeleteSpent the evening working on harmonizing "In the Rain." Now two thirds of the way done, but will h ave to go back and fiddle some more with a couple of the chords which don't sound quite right. Still, it's better to have something to work with than nothing at all.
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ReplyDeleteOh, that's fancier than mine. Oven at 425 deg. Start warming cast iron frying pan on stove. Mix three eggs, half a cup of flour, half a cup of milk and some nutmeg. Melt butter in pan, pour in batter. 15-20 minutes in oven, serve with jam.
ReplyDeleteWish our electric oven would do popovers, but it won't. They need that constant blast of hot air you get with a gas oven.
Cool detail!
ReplyDeleteAnd the groom is always on the right of the bride, to keep his sword arm free...!
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing, Alan. :-)
ReplyDeleteWell done! I want some of that salad too. What veggies do you use?
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