So today I learned another site, the Stoddard Tinshop. Really, my head is so filled with information and trying to keep it with the right site and the right show is wearing on me. Giving a tour of the home and then the shop, we demonstrate how to make a skimming pan. Using tools like a crimper, flanger, seamer etc…..Who in their right mind would let me around tools like that?????? A screwdriver is a challenge for me, but onward I go.
This is Sister Schrokhowsky…….that a mouthful and she talks CONSTANTLY. But lots of fun and very well traveled. She married a man from Austria in Australia and has traveled around the world……
I hear beautiful bagpipe music playing and run outside to see this young elder just walking down the streets playing. It is wonderful here in the summer.
What’s this you may ask???? A mouse trap. They would fill the bucket with water, bait it with cheese, put a plank up to the bucket and when the mouse would reach for the cheese, it would swivel and plunk, baptism and heaven all in one dunk!
They would put honey on the end of the cork and fit it back in the bottle. The bottle was made so that when the insects went up into it they would not be able to get back out! I think we have one of these in Denver from Home Depot!!! Man these pioneers were smart.
Living part of the Stoddard home.
Tinshop…..with antique tools that I guess are to die for. That’s what an old machinist told us. Irreplaceable!
Skimming pan that I demonstrate how to make, I see you smiling…….
Another deer on our way home. They are so pretty and we see them often. So tonight I had my debut in the “Sunset By The Mississippi.” There is so much to learn and I am still not getting everything down like I would like to but Richard keeps telling me to be patient. We have only been here three weeks, and so much is being packed into this old brain. On my first solo part, I guess I did pretty well. It’s the prohibition song. Anyway, I had people whom I had met in my tours and they were cheering for me. Honestly, it is a blank. I have no idea what I did. It however is so much fun to watch the show. Even our mission president and his wife are performing. I really think they are amazing. They are doing everything that they are asking us to do and that is admirable. Amazing people. So grateful for them and their example. Well, we have a training meeting in the morning early and then it is on to another venue, the Cultural Hall, with a new script to memorize………………………….Thank you for talking to us on Skype tonight Miss Delaney. We love you all……………………………..
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