This guy was out in the yard explaining that a lot of the protein in some colonial diets was pigeon. These were the birds. They were nice barnyard fowl. One interesting thing about them was that for the first few months of thier lives they are basically vegetables in the nest. They just sit there and use all of the energy they take in to grow. They are very different from messenger pigeons.

     

We toured this colonial kitchen. Back then fire was the source of all cooking heat. To fry, the woman took a shovel full of hot coals out of the fire and put a pan with legs over them. Modern stoves are so much more convenient and repeatable!

  

For entertainment in the parlor they played games. One example was this set of dice with letters on the sides. The woman rolled them and challenged us to figure out words that used the top letters. I think this was Grace's tablet. She did the best among us.