The Milking Stool and the Next Month
This is one of the family milking stools. Yes, it’s as short as it looks, just about twleve inches high, just right to reach a cow’s udder. By the…
Read moreTea Kettle Broth
My mother grew up in straightened circumstances in Wiltshire, England. Her father died when she was two, a victim of the post World War I flu epidemic, and her mother…
Read moreBread, Celestial Made. Or Bread’s Long Journey to Hawaii
Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time. This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840. If it’s hard to read the words,…
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