The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in field trip on Sep 29th, 2012
The Damsel recently came across this website: Neeman Tools. She loves everything about this, and especially its philosophy: “It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery [...]
Posted in field trip on Jan 21st, 2012
Today at the Old School we’re going on a field trip, to learn a little something interesting about sparkly stuff. Back in the olden days (and by that the Damsel means WAY long ago), people used to weigh gems to determine their value, just like we do nowadays. But of course there was no such [...]
Posted in field trip on Jul 18th, 2011
Come along with the Damsel while she goes on an old-fashioned adventure, full of fresh air, hard work, and earwigs. The Damsel’s neighbor owns two beautiful Arabians that need feeding. She found a terrific price on some oat hay, and asked the Damsel to help her load it. First we drove out Into The Countryside, [...]
Posted in field trip on Jun 13th, 2011
Sprog #3 sent the Damsel this link, and she can’t stop giggling. Sorry for the poor video quality, but think how many old-fashioned things you’ll have time to do if you follow these hints? (The Damsel has in fact tried the shirt folding trick. Pretty cool.) See more funny videos and Technology at Todays Big [...]
Posted in field trip on Jun 9th, 2010
The Damsel has a little community/forum thingy for people to ask and answer questions about self-reliance. She’s created a poll there and would appreciate your participation. An extra recess for those who do! In order to see the poll, please scroll down and look for the yellow box that says “The Damsel and Friends.” Then [...]
Posted in field trip on May 7th, 2010
Today’s class is a little different. Today we’ll go on a field trip to meet an amazing young woman. You could search the world and perhaps never find a more inspiring person–someone who has made the deliberate choice to accept God’s will for her, even though this means that nearly everything she assumed about her [...]
Posted in field trip on Mar 3rd, 2010
Today at the Old School we’re going on a field trip. Happy 200th Birthday, Fryderyk Chopin, old school piano genius. (painting by Eugene Delacroix, a close friend) You were the Damsel’s first love. Yes, even before Brett Richards, who lived in town and had beautiful brown eyes and hair that waved down over his collar, [...]
Posted in field trip on Jan 25th, 2010
Self-reliance is the main course of study at the Old School. And, being self-reliant and pursuing simplicity go hand in hand in the Damsel’s eyes. She’s always wishing she could take it down a level. Let’s just say some days go better than others when it comes to avoiding the crazy. Yesterday at church, the [...]
Posted in field trip on Jun 29th, 2009
The Damsel was asked to teach a class about pens. She admits she was surprised about the topic, but once she read a little about it, she found out it’s actually pretty interesting. The most old-school kind of pen is a feather or quill pen, used for a thousand years with practically no change. A [...]
Posted in clothing, field trip on May 26th, 2009
Today we’re going on an Old School field trip. Occasionally the class will do this to learn about some fascinating thingy that makes old skills easier. So, today’s class is on the invention of the sewing machine. From the time people were running around in loincloths, there’s been such a thing as sewing. But for [...]
