Saturday morning, and we are waiting for the rain to hit from "Ernesto". He's still a bit south of us right now, but we are under flood watches today in our county. Our farm is in no danger of flooding, even though we live on a river. Our river is down some very steep banks, and my husband says there has never been a danger of flooding in all the years he has been here.
This farm house is more than 200 years old, and in fact is of somewhat historical interest in the area. During Victorian times, when there were no roads leading up to Lake Ontario, people would ride trains up as close as they could get to the area, then switch to buggies or whatever other means they could find to make their way to the Lake where many resorts stood waiting.
Some men would ride "ordinaries" from the train stop up to the lake. An "ordinary" is one of those bicycles from way back when ffeaturing a very large wheel in the front and a very tiny wheel in the back.
Our farm house happens to sit right at the top of a long, gentle rise and is on the way to the Lake. The men riding the ordinaries, who were called "wheelmen", would be fairly tuckered out by the time they reached this place, and so would stop to rest. The people who owned the farm back then welcomed the wheelmen to have a rest here on the lawn, under the shade of the large trees in the yard. They would also offer them water from the well.
It became a landmark for that reason, and was given a name to commemorate those times of warmth of welcome.
On a different note: I have made a bit of progress on the Christmas stocking I am knitting for my husband. This is the third stocking I have knit from the particular pattern I am using. It features some great, interesting and complicated cables and twists and makes a very lovely Christmas stocking. The pattern can be found in the book "Christmas Stockings: 18 Holiday Treasures to Knit" by Elaine Lipson, which you can find at Amazon in paperback for about $13. In the book, this stocking is knit in green and cream, but I am using Cardinal and Winter White for him in Berroco's Ultra Alpaca.
The lavendar scarf I am knitting with a basket weave pattern and seed stitch border also needs some attention from me this weekend, so I will make more progress on that at some point.
It is time to get back downstairs and make some corn cakes and soy sausages for our Saturday morning breakfast, so I must end off. Hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend ... and stay cozy and dry if you can.
~firefly
Awaiting heavy rain from Ernesto
country living food knitting stockings yarn
Saturday morning, and we are waiting for the rain to hit from "Ernesto". He's still a bit south of us right now, but we are under flood watches today in our county. Our farm is in no danger of flooding, even though we live on a river. Our river is down some very steep banks, and my husband says there has never been a danger of flooding in all the years he has been here.
This farm house is more than 200 years old, and in fact is of somewhat historical interest in the area. During Victorian times, when there were no roads leading up to Lake Ontario, people would ride trains up as close as they could get to the area, then switch to buggies or whatever other means they could find to make their way to the Lake where many resorts stood waiting.
Some men would ride "ordinaries" from the train stop up to the lake. An "ordinary" is one of those bicycles from way back when ffeaturing a very large wheel in the front and a very tiny wheel in the back.
Our farm house happens to sit right at the top of a long, gentle rise and is on the way to the Lake. The men riding the ordinaries, who were called "wheelmen", would be fairly tuckered out by the time they reached this place, and so would stop to rest. The people who owned the farm back then welcomed the wheelmen to have a rest here on the lawn, under the shade of the large trees in the yard. They would also offer them water from the well.
It became a landmark for that reason, and was given a name to commemorate those times of warmth of welcome.
On a different note: I have made a bit of progress on the Christmas stocking I am knitting for my husband. This is the third stocking I have knit from the particular pattern I am using. It features some great, interesting and complicated cables and twists and makes a very lovely Christmas stocking. The pattern can be found in the book "Christmas Stockings: 18 Holiday Treasures to Knit" by Elaine Lipson, which you can find at Amazon in paperback for about $13. In the book, this stocking is knit in green and cream, but I am using Cardinal and Winter White for him in Berroco's Ultra Alpaca.
The lavendar scarf I am knitting with a basket weave pattern and seed stitch border also needs some attention from me this weekend, so I will make more progress on that at some point.
It is time to get back downstairs and make some corn cakes and soy sausages for our Saturday morning breakfast, so I must end off. Hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend ... and stay cozy and dry if you can.
~firefly
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