The Breast Cancer Site

I dont know how many people know about this site. It is called the Breast Cancer Site. I provided the link above. Everytime someone clicks on the site, the advertisers of the site will pay for a mammogram. I encourage everyone to visit. You can even sign up for a daily reminder to click, through your e-mail.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Small Moments

I thank God for the small moments in my life. For example finding a quote on the bottom of a box of tea that completely describes my feelings toward my favorite season.. winter!

"There are winter mornings when the cold without only adds to the warmth within, and the more it snows and the harder it blows, brighter the fires blaze."

-Emily Dickinson.

Neglected

I suppose that would be the one word, to describe how this blog feels.

I am sorry, things have just been so busy lately, and school is definately more difficult. More difficult and much more involved. I am really enjoying it though.

I will try to blog some more, maybe post some projects that I have worked on.

I hope that everyone is doing well!

God Bless,
Nicole

Historical Archaeology

This is one of the classes that I am taking this semester, and I really like the class. I especially like being able to go on the field trips. So far we have had two field trips.

The most recent one was to the Governor Wisner Mansion. Built by Moses Wisner who was the governor from 1859 to 1861.

This is the dining room. We learned that most of the pieces were collected from outside sources. However the cabinet in the back with the ceramics in it, is an actual Wisner piece. The mansion had two bedrooms, a parlor, family room, and office. One thing that the home had the was unusual to Michigan was a summer kitchen.

The first field trip that we took was to the Troy Historical Villiage.

This was neat because it wasn't just one building to visit but several. The first was a log cabin. Then a vernacular Greek Revival Home, which means it was built in the style of Greek revival but by a local craftsmen. Then there was a one-room school house. Which is the red brick building that you can see in the corner of the picture above. The white building next to that was the General Store. Then there was a print shop and a wagon repair shop. Then a parsonage and a Methodist church. It was fascinating.

Thought I would share a Frog