You know you’re a homeschooler when…
Oct 5th, 2012 by lapazfarm
You know you’re a homeschooler when you have a hand-lashed frame with chunks of meat hanging to dry, Native-American-style, in your living room.
Ok, I’ll admit it. That’s weird even by homeschooler standards.
Let me take a step back and explain.
The LaPaz gang are immersed in a study of Native Americans right now. JBug was reading in her book, Tree in the Trail (by Holling C. Holling) that one reason meat was hung to dry was to make it lighter for the dogs to carry (this part of the story is set in pre-horse “dog days”).
So we decided to do an experiment to see just how that worked.
We got some extra-lean beef (to mimic bison as best we could), cut it into thin strips, and JBug weighed it out.
She cut down some saplings and made a drying frame (getting boy scout Sam to help with the lashing), added hooks and line, and hung the meat to dry in the sunshine and fresh air.
We expected it to be safe on the porch to dry for a few days.
All set. Except we didn’t count on these cheeky little guys showing up:
thinking it’s dinner time…
and preparing to seriously skew our data…
And since we didn’t want them to accidentally get caught by a fish hook, we decided we had no choice but to bring the whole contraption indoors.
Which is how we ended up with meat drying in the living room.
See. Not so weird after all, right?
Tell me these kinds of things happen to you, too.
9 Responses to “You know you’re a homeschooler when…”
Love it! and yes that kind of stuff happens here too.
Blessings, Dawn
That is really cool! (I stole your Free Rice logo/link. Been meaning to do it for a long time. Thanks!).
Yep makes total sense!:)
Yep, I have a chicken mummifying in my garage….totally homeschoolers.
LOL!!! And I literally did reading this, I just love you Tess!! Always something great to share and this takes the cake for sure
Can’t wait to hear about your results too! Go Jbug!! Cutest little birdies too, what are they??
Terrific post. I have those thoughts all the time-my neighbors probably think we are NUTS!
Oh yeah, we have mummified a chicken in the kitchen – people kept asking what it was. We have watched several sets of ants in our ant farm, but once it ended up in the middle of the dining room table as a centerpiece!
I love this!
Enjoy your study!
I love it! We homeschooled our kids for twenty years and this story makes me miss those days. God bless you, and savor every minute!