Subj : Books
To : Ruth Haffly
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Mon Jul 08 2024 17:45:55
Re: Books
By: Ruth Haffly to Carol Shenkenberger on Sat Jul 06 2024 12:07 pm
> Hi Carol,
>
> > *****Laura Ingalls Wilder. Mary was her older sister who went blind. An
> > interesting biography of Laura is "Prairie Fire", sorry I can't give you
> > the author as I borrowed it from my daughter, returned it to her out in
> > Utah last year.
>
> > CS> You will like the Clan books I bet! She;s as accurate as possible o
> > CS> what was known of the times with only some additions to flesh out
> > CS> Neanderthals.
>
> > Those books were good reads; I have the first 5 in paperback, last one
> > on my Nook. It would be interesting to try some of the cooking
> > techniques; some of them (pit "oven" for rxample) are still in use
> > today.
>
> CS> I've done some of it over the fireplace in winter, Fun for a trial!
>
> We have a gas fireplace so it wouldn't work out quite as well. However,
> Steve does have a charcoal grill, egg shaped but not the name brand
> green one. Might be worth trying that for "campfire" cooking. He grilled
> a pizza the other night but because of time constraints, did it on one
> of our gas grills.
>
Got our fireplace cleaned today and agreed to some repairs. Not bad, few here
get annual cleanings and USE the fireplace much. He found our well used truely
functional fireplace really nice. The extended hearth is quite unique in a
modern hearth but normal in the 1700-1800's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHipdvDt77A
Nice series behind it!
xxcarol
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