Colonial house

[HoneySuckleBlue]

This is one of my favorite reality shows...it's on PBS tonight from, 8~10 it shows twenty people, I think that chose to go and rebuild an exact replica of a colonial...colony and live there for I think it's a summer to see if they could prepare for and survive a winter.


I watched it last year and it was sooo good...man I wanna go!!

Here's a link...

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/media/




http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/media/photo_gallery1/images/pic6.jpg

[nirgal]

Oh wow, I'll see if it's on here.
I saw one recently that was about some people up in i think it was Hudson's bay or somewhere like that. They had a authentic trap boat and were folloeing a traditional root to a fur trading station or whatever they were called. It was all being done the way it was in the late 1700's

Cool, I love to try something like that

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Me too...I'd get all lost in it though and not want to come back!

[nirgal]

I was hoping to see them build the houses! That's cheating ;)
Nice shallop

A firkin of aqua vita, please..........

[Scholar_Warrior]

is the word "oxymoron" an oxymoron?

[HoneySuckleBlue]

What'd you just call me?

[antithesis]

I was gonna watch it last night, but I was in the middle of reading "Wuthering Heights" but then I got insomnia and they replayed it in the middle of the night and so I did get to watch it.

It is so freakin' good! I love it!

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Man that was one of the few books I've read over again. I loove the imagery and how romatic and tragicit is...same with the Dorian Gray one:)

[mystical_shroom]

I love watching Colonial house....
I remember when they had that Frontier House..I loved that one too.

[antithesis]

I should definitely read Dorian Gray, I bet I'd like it a lot. I just love Wuthering Heights so much, I am trying to read it as slowly as I can because I don't want it to end.

[scarlettchasingroses]

PBS knows how to make good shows....I was impressed with this one just as I've been impressed with most of the shows that they have come up with similiar to this show.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Frontier house was funny, I got a kick out of the rich family that went out there and brought a stil...buncha drunks,lol. then the husband thought he was wasting away, hehee but he was just turning into a healthy, hard working man. That was a good show!

I wanted to be on that one too :)

Hey Nirgal we should run away and join a reality Old World show!! It'd be cool if they did one and recreated the Mayflower crossing or something like that. Where you have to build the boat and then sail over on it. (I just watched master and commander again last night, heehee, man I love that movie!!)

[HappyHaHaGirl]

My mom was watching Oprah yesterday and she and her friend went and lived with them for a couple of days. It was weird.... :)


I love Wuthering Heights. I've ready it too many times....

[nirgal]

I'm up for it HSB!
Did you see a show called "THe Ship" I think it was on History channel anyway it was a BBC production. A group of people sailed a replica of Cook's ship "Endeavor" through Australias Barrior reef and up through the Torres straight, only using what was available at that time.

http://www.morro-bay.net/visit/endeavour/Sail6194.JPG

check this out for dream food
http://www.picton-castle.com/

[HoneySuckleBlue]

I did'nt see that one, but it sounds right up my alley. I wonder how you get signed up for something like that...

Oh and I saw that Oprah too. They were so scared of the mice,lol...I don't think I could have dealt with all those flies though. I would have been the person that invented screen me thinks.

[mariecstasy]

chrissy you finally got around to Wuthering Heights?! seems your type of book, it is highly depressing. but it was fabulous


and kim this is hilarious. i went to dinner with my grammy and daddy last night. and after our walk, dad said"marie i know you don't really watch tv but you shuold really check out this show called Colonial House"
i had to laugh. so i watched it last night and realized that i had seen one episode. i saw the one where they were trying to get the boat to the river and got pissed, and tried to protest so that they wouldnt have to do it. they wanted a crew to come do it for them. what the heck? they went on the show in order to live that lifestyle. like they had crews fly in to do your work 300-400 years ago.
last night john admitted to being gay. that was such a liberating moment. it is a very good show indeed.
you know, i find that most of the shows that really interest me are on pbs. they also have a feature called Great Performances. i get mesmerized by them. i watched A Midsummers Night Dream one evening. it was fantastic. and they always show Circus de Sol(or whatever its called, brain fart right now). everytime i watch that i feel stoned when indeed i am not

[MagnanimityMan]

i love love love old florida homes. i live in a city called plantation, which over the last little while has started to get very modern i guess, but down in "old plantation" there are SO many beautiful old florida homes. they're beautiful.

[HoneySuckleBlue]

"...last night john admitted to being gay. that was such a liberating moment."


Marie...what ?


...your feackin with me right???

I used to deliver pizza's in PLantation Florida...

[MagnanimityMan]

hehehe, that's awesome. definitely can't wait till ol' ethan gets out of here though. people are becoming so so so mean. it's as everyone is becoming so absorbed in themselves, not really conceeded and such, but... i dont know... for example, i always say hello to everyone with a nice happy smile on my face, every stranger that passes by. It's depressing how few people even respond. It's taboo to say hello to people nowwadays, apparently =\. at least in south florida =(.

where's a kind town here in the states? i'm really really looking to relocate. i actually just got accepted (with FULL scholarship) to FAU's honor's college!! i'm going to get my masters in education, and become a highschool math teacher. So, if any pleasant towns need a good kind teacher!!!! please tell me =). It'd be great looking into potential places where i might one day settle down.

[mystical_shroom]

"...last night john admitted to being gay. that was such a liberating moment."


I loved that part, i was so proud of him...
And when he first told the family he was staying with..and how they were very supportive of him...
But definitely when he told everyone, i wanted to run up there and give him the biggest hug...

[HoneySuckleBlue]

Well I guess that would explain alot then...


Ethan that's awesome you're gonna be a teacher and got a full scholarship!! (my daughter wants to be a fourth grade science teacher when she grows up:) )

Where's FAU?

There is a good mix of friendly and unfriendly people where I live. (I'm kinda furitive when I go out though...I attract really strange people to me when I am nice and smiley.) There is a neat art school that just started the year before we got here that my daughter now goes to. I'm wanting to get more involved with them. They have a really great attitude of TOlerance and creativity and I love the atmosphere the teachers create. (they have a traveling steele drum and juggeling show)

They have k~8th grade now but they are supposed to be getting the old highschool building so they can continue on to 12th grade.

:) it's a thought.

[MagnanimityMan]

FAU is in boca. still south florida, but a good hour away from home =).

that artschool sounds fantastic!
the highschool that i went to (am going to actually, but going to graduate in maybe 2 weeks!!!!) is also a new school. It's called mcfatter technical highschool. what their program does is when you start 11th grade, you get to pick a "TECHNICAL" program. your 10th grade year you have a class that goes through each of them, to make your big decision more accurate i guess. here are some courses they offer.:
computer graphics, computer programming, computer networking, computer drafting, culinary, automotive, boat and yacht repair, photography, tv production, web design, optomitry, dental tech, pharmacy tech, medical assisting, and practical nursing.
i chose practical nursing. the tech program is 3 hours a day, your entire 11th and 12th grade year, but the best part is that i'm going to graduate with my LPN license!!!! it's an AMAZING program. I've truly learned SOOOOO much, which is the only reason i tookt he class. i'm not too thrilled on becoming a nurse, but the knowledge is SO amazing. goodness.

ethan's either going to be a highschool calculus teacher, or a kindergarden teacher. it's up up up in the air. i mean, i KNOW i'd be able to connect with the kids, unlike any teacher i've ever had. I know i'd form friendships and trusts, while not letting things ever get out of control. i see it. i know i will have these kids respect. not out of fear, but friendship. I know i'd be able to teach these kids also! (i'm the the the the THE mathman).
but.... i LOVE kids. i LLLLOOOVVVEEE kids. and i think being a kindergarden teacher would be bliss everyday, getting PAID! working! and enjoying the most beautiful thing... everyday. kids! 5 year old kids!

[mystical_shroom]

When i was around your age Ethan, I went to school to become a teacher, I wanted to become an elementary art school teacher...I always thought what a wonderful job tis it would be...
Sit around with little kids who do nothing but laugh and play and to beable to do art with them...finger painting, the constuction paper, cotton ball snowmen...just being as goofy as you want and the kids adore and love ya for it...No job gets better than that in my opinion...
But never got to finish school, my older bro got in a wreck and had to go through a year of recovery, and i just couldnt handle school through that..
I do plan on going back soon, and finishing..
But good luck to you Mr. Ethan...as it sounds you'd make an excellent teacher...

[HoneySuckleBlue]

High school seems more challenging because there would be people like me who struggle with the concepts that numbers represent.

An execllent and empathetic Math teacher would be an invaluable asset to a school in IMHO. All the math teachers I encountered were cold and vacant...I could'nt learn anything form them.

I really admire teachers and there are never enough good ones, I hope you two follow your dreams.