Back In Time

Today, I took my daughters and their friend to a historic plantation, where we participated in old-fashioned chores and observed time-honored skills such as forging, butter-churning, and yes, goat-milking. As I tried this latter skill, the woman instructing me leaned over and chuckled, "You know, the women always do better at this than the men!" I could see why :-)

One of the more interesting exhibits was a tent full of old tools, many dating from the late 19th century. As I looked them over, I silently gave thanks that I was not having to learn woodworking with those things! I'm slow as it is, but I'd hate to think how long it would take me to build something with hand tools that run only on brawn.