Natural Art

[thecfarm]

You can keep those grits.

[SwampDonkey]

I found a small tea pot sized chunk of magnesium sulfate in the field beside the house when picking rocks. It was coated in sulfur that precipitated out of the rock. Inside the rock was metallic black with high luster. It's in the gallery someplace I think. I chipped the sulfur off the outside. There are not many mines in Canada for that mineral, I heard there is one in NB and one in Quebec. I heard it is used in some way for rocket fuel, don't know too much about it myself.

[WDH]

Grits.......

Yankee or no, full circle back to food.  We are all members of the same club it seems :D.  It must be food that binds us, not geography .

I got a nice package in the mail from Mr. and Mrs. Boss.  That blueberry jelly sure tasted good with those biscuits and stone ground grits ;D.

thecfarm,

Don't underestimate the value of grits in warding off those howling winter winds :.

[stonebroke]

WDH , I thought you lived in GA. What would you know about howling winter winds. I think Cfarm might though.

Stonebroke

[Radar67]

You want to talk natural art? Well, I got one of those jars of blueberry jelly and that my friend is art. Thanks Boss and Bossette.

[WDH]

WDH , I thought you lived in GA. What would you know about howling winter winds. I think Cfarm might though.

Stonebroke

You are right, Stonebroke.  Fortunately, the winter winds here do not howl so bad.  I was trying to impress upon thecfarm the value of fortifying his bones.  I am sure that he has some sure-fire bone fortifying remedies without resorting to grits.  The economy has not got that bad yet, right thecfarm??;D

[SwampDonkey]

Roxie scolded me a while back for not freezing blueberries to eat in winter.  : Seems I've taken a liken to them in yogurt mixed with Quaker harvest crunch cereal and crushed pecans on top. I make it part of every breakfast.  ;D

[Gary_C]

WDH, yes it must be a natural progression to go from rocks to grits.   :D :D

[Lud]

So Jeff , you know how many generations US you are?

My  ancestor, Michael Ludwig,  came with his brother, Daniel ,  in 1733,  so I'm eighth generation.  they were stonemasons from Koblenz, Germany,  who paid for their passage by building a gristmill in Redding , Pa.

Family's great, eh?

[thecfarm]

No grits for me,the economy is bad,but hamburg is still cheap.Have to catch the steak on sale to enjoy it now. Most of the time I head for the house when the wind is blowing like that.I'm lucky I don't have to work in it,unless I choice too.Most of the time steak and eggs,sausage or bacon,home fries and toast will do a body good first thing in the morning to deal with the wind.

[Jeff]

I'm almost positive I posted it here 6 or 7 years ago as a "whatzit"  I'll have to take another photo.

[Jeff]

So Jeff , you know how many generations US you are?

My  ancestor, Michael Ludwig,  came with his brother, Daniel ,  in 1733,  so I'm eighth generation.  they were stonemasons from Koblenz, Germany,  who paid for their passage by building a gristmill in Redding , Pa.

Family's great, eh?

Well, I did have an easy reference site that I could go to up until AOL obliterated it along with tens of thousands of other sites when they shut down the members hometown sites.  I used to go to the The Brokaw Broucard Family lines site often. I could trace from myself clear to the 1500's.  I never copied anything from it, as it was always there. There is a book on the Brokaw family in America that my cousin has. There are only 100 copies of it. In it it talks about the first girl child born in New Amsterdam being a Brokaw. New Amsterdam is now known as New York City.  We've been here awhile.

I think I am 10th generation in the U.S.  Here is another webpage with the root history of our family in the U.S.
http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/broucard/surnames.htm

[DanG]

One of my ancestors, William Hatcher, immigrated to Virginia in 1617.  I traced his line back from my Paternal Grandmother.  My surname has only been traced back to my Great-great-grandfather, where we have met with a dead-end.  There is speculation, as yet unproven, that we link back to a family who landed in N. Carolina in 1738, but we haven't been able to establish the link.

I took some photos today of some of my p. convolutus branches, but I have yet to process them for the Forum. ;D

[SwampDonkey]

We found where our grand dad (Sam) a few 'greats' back came from Scotland to Hampstead, NB. Died on a log drive we think and we know where his wife is buried, there is a picture of her stone on the web. A son was also buried with his mother. The stone was erected by another son.

Here is their stone.

His (old Sam) grandson (also Sam) has a diary Here

William, Thomas and Richard were their sons.

Son William also has a stone there as well.

[Jeff]

That "stick" was setting on the bar this morning as I was putting some mineral oil on a couple of wood bowls. One I made, and one Burlkraft made.  It just seemed to be a natural combination. One sits under, and the other sits nicely on top with out any modifications.

[Jeff]

Back view or front, or side, or however you choose to look at it.



Seems to fit in with our decor.

[SwampDonkey]

I have this here plate of birch bark I picked up at the base of my 25" yellow birch last winter. It's been sitting on a corner cupboard all year. I guess my point is, sometimes something strikes me as interesting and I take it home to. 


Those a pretty bowls Jeff. ;D