Hestia Homeschool for Young Wild Women

The house reeks.  David found a skeleton under the old shed, and Tabby promptly confiscated it.  Both of my older daughters have a fascination with bones (probably because their parents also like bones.)  Tabby is boiling them on the stove to boil off the gristle and other smelly cartilage still clinging to the bones.  She wants to add to our collection of skulls and bones in the basement. 

   We have a great many large cow bones that we found when Mandy was only seven.  We were looking for a farm to purchase. We  found most of a cow skeleton at a remote farm in Bracken county.  I still remember that sunny steep hillside and Mandy running around gathering cow bones that we bleached white.  Mandy was exulting in the car that we were RICH in bones.  When we got home she scribbled on many of the bones trying to form her own obscure classification system.  At the time I was frustrated with her, but now---almost ten years later--I see that I should not have been.  I am much more relaxed as a mother now, more willing to let things go.  What did I think was so important about keeping the bones marker free?  I can't remember why I thought it was important then, but I can still see the sadness in her face as I scolded her.  There are so many things that I would undo about my parenting if I could. The poor oldest child gets the brunt of the experimenting.

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David and I were watching the Discovery Channel one night last week. They had a very interesting show on about "weird" collections. One man collected skulls as a child and later made it his life's work. We found the skulls beautiful...there were so many different kinds of them, each unique to the individual animal and the species. It is the great variation in life on Earth that brings me closer in my heart to God. God, as the eternal life force, must love diversity...."
Comment from hestiahomeschool - 1/25/04 6:48 PM
 

There is a deer skeleton on the side of the road on 471. I've promised Tabitha and Mandy that I will climb up on the hill and get some of the bones. I haven't done it yet because I want to have some disposable gloves on and a garbage bag for them. Then I will find out how and wear to get those carrion beetles to clean it.
Comment from hestiahomeschool - 1/22/04 11:12 PM

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  1/25/04 6:48 PM | Permalink

  David and I were watching the Discovery Channel one night last week. They had a very interesting show on about "weird" collections. One man collected skulls as a child and later made it his life's work. We found the skulls beautiful...there were so many different kinds of them, each unique to the individual animal and the species. It is the great variation in life on Earth that brings me closer in my heart to God. God, as the eternal life force, must love diversity...."
• #1 Comment from hestiahomeschoolEntry Author 
  1/22/04 11:12 PM | Permalink

  There is a deer skeleton on the side of the road on 471. I've promised Tabitha and Mandy that I will climb up on the hill and et some of the bones. I haven't done it yet because I want to have some disposable gloves on and a garbabe bag for them. Then I will find out how and wear to get those carrion beetles to clean it.