On Time
It took me a while to find my way here today - it's only 4 miles from my motel, but I got stuck behind a train on the way. We don't have a lot of freight trains in NJ - the trains we do have tend to run on trestles over the street or in tunnels underneath it, so it's not part of our daily traveling landscape. Well, not like here! Lots of trains, lots of tracks and lots of folks trying to beat the gates as they ring closed.
And then I kept driving past the building because I was being silly and just hadn't noticed the sign (I saw that it was the Town Hall, and no matter how many times I looked at the sign it didn't register until I drove by in the opposite direction - and Helena's not that big a town!)
Max would LOVE to be here - every few minutes a new train goes by, whistles sounding and bells ringing - he would be in 8-year old boy HEAVEN!Last night was a resting evening - watching the History Channel (can ANYONE tell me where Boudica would have purchased her personal hygiene products, her razors? She was one clean shaven early Briton...) eating some Little Caeser's Pizza with a diet coke, reading, just lounging around. It's good to have the evenings to rest up for a change instead of teaching every day or evening.
Today I taught Combination Knitting - then book signing and another class this afternoon (Cabling Sans Cable Needle). Tonight dinner with Mercedes and her DH, then more teaching tomorrow morning, The Corset Top, and a long drive to Greensville, SC before I teach there on Monday.
posted by Annie at
Saturday, March 11, 2006
4 Comments:
Perhaps it was just the odd juxtaposition - Town Hall, knit shop, and railway depot, all rolled into one! Even if I'd been told "it's in the same building as the Town Hall", I certainly never would have pictured anything like this. Of course, that makes it all the more endearing.
I just to live in Atlanta..... I love Georgia. Such beautiful weather, not too hot, but also not too cold. You get to experience all the seasons moderately.
re: Boudica
scapers for removing hair can be found in stone tools (most are too coarse for living tissue, i'll admit)but some are sharp and fine enough to shave off hair (with out too much irritation)
the romans used to "thread" hairs to remove them (body hair for guys was a faux pas--a real chore if those ancient italians are anything like modern day italians!) there is a latin pun about the cry's of the depilitories--the vendor have to cry out (advertising their service) to be louder than the cries of their clients!)
honey and wax were used too, in ancient times.
one of the bog men of ireland (a recently found one featured on an episode of NOVA (PBS) had a 'hair gel' in his hair--made from vegetable oil and pine resin.. after 1600 years in a bog, his hair was still 'styled'-(no idea how he ever washed the stuff out.. but it sure had holding power!)
cosmetics and grooming products --some very primative, and some surprizingly modern--are almost as old as stone tools.
Kohl-(a fermented dye) gets its name from al koh(o)l--or as we say it alcohol. and henna like products were used by cleopatria to 'set' her hair (on 'rollers' made out of carved wooden sticks!)
Looks like a sweet town. (Wed. -- you OK? You've been posting more often...)
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