February, 2013 - Kirsten Hammerstrom

Eat, Not Just Meat

Posted on February 22, 2013 by kittycalash

The Young Mr has been unsupervised some of this week (he’s old enough but not always as mature as one might prefer) and I have left him notes to help him...

Clothing

Shoe Envy

Posted on February 21, 2013 by kittycalash

Yes, I am as shallow as stereotypes might suggest: I see shoes, I often want shoes. Even my current co-workers know about the red leather Cuban-heeledAdrienne V...

History/Living History/Reenacting

Three sticks, two kettles, no matches

Posted on February 20, 2013 by kittycalash

Here’s some visual evidence for why we travel with three sticks, two kettles, and no matches. (We bring the sticks as we suspect the sites where we camp &...

Clothing/Living History/making things

Bloody Overalls

Posted on February 19, 2013 by kittycalash

But that’s still better than the story I heard yesterday about the incredibly authentic, effluvial-field dipp’d overalls that gave a mender dysenter...