As usual, Chewlee gave me a hard time about going to bed but I insisted so she finally got her stuffed animals together and went to bed. Of course, this was AFTER we had watched the final two movies in the Harry Potter series. She was glad that Voldemort was finally defeated and Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione were all married. She even got to see Draco Malfoy who had also married and had a son he was sending off to school at Hogwarts. *Sigh* I really hated to see that series end.
We also did up the Rudolph for the set that I gave to the Princess. It was made for me by the Beast's Auntie Emm more years ago than I care to remember. But she will take care of it, I know. It's got to be considered a kind of family treasure. It's very different.
I let Chewlee take charge of putting part of the decorating on Rudolph. He's different from the other deer that is part of the display but he SHOULD be different other than the red nose, don't you think? I also put a coat of varnish on him to protect the paint. I then put a coat on the sleeping deer. I will have to varnish the other two deer and the sleigh, I guess. They are just a bit more *shiny* than they were. But it will help them last and not fade. I used it on my gnome that I have at the front door and it's held up beautifully. I think I did that one about seven or eight years ago. It had faded badly but I repainted it and then varnished it. It looks as good now as it did when I first repainted it.
Chewlee has taken up reading the Harry Potter books. She's on book five right now (Order of Phoenix) and I am so happy she's doing that. The books are much more detailed than the movies and I know she will like that. Her school gives them some kind of special credits for the books they read and she has almost 300 points so far. It helps them move up in their reading groups. She's also learning to tackle comprehension and I saw her sounding out words that she wasn't familiar with. I'm going to show her where to go to learn what the word mean since she doesn't have a dictionary handy.
She's fascinated with my book that I am putting on Word so that I can download it onto a disk to send out to agents when I finish it. She says she would like to learn how to write stories because she has a problem with doing that. She can get extra credit for that, I gather. She says she has a problem with thinking up a subject. I was showing her that subjects for a story can be found anywhere...from birds to insects to Indians and so on. She just has to find something that interests her and then think about what they could be doing that would interest someone else that reads it.
We watched some videos of Birds of Paradise. That fascinated her because some of them are incredibly beautiful. The men that made the videos are attempting to document all 39 varieties of them. We saw only about 20 of them so they have a way to go yet.
She started to write a story about the first Thanksgiving, including the menu since they had run out of flour so there was no bread although they did make a kind of fried bread from some of the corn that they grew. I showed her how to find out what the real names of the Indians were so that she didn't have to make them up. She was attempting to make it more spectacular than it was but I showed her where the settlers were grateful for the help of the Indians and the menu which included various fowls (they referred to all of the birds that were edible as turkeys but they probably were not). She didn't know what venison was but I think she will learn since her daddy hunts. He hasn't been on one for a couple years now but I understand that he can field dress and cut up a deer in about an hour. That's really incredible. His father was really proud of that.
They now live out in the boondocks and I'll bet that they will see deer in his area soon enough. Right now there are people leasing part of their land to have grazing for their cattle. Once the boundaries are set out by the surveyors, they will be able to fence it in for the cattle they want to have. They own 10 acres of land and that should help them out a bit so they won't have to put feed out all the time. They will have to buy hay but that shouldn't be a problem. I see it being delivered to the farms around here all the time.
Time to put myself to bed so I will close for now. Love you all. I am glad if you enjoy my boring life. If nothing else, it makes you appreciate your own life...LOL! Have a great weekend. ***Hugs***
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