We are a block of doers:
Travis brews his own beer; he and Zelda taught themselves how roast coffee beans. Then they took a class to learn how to make cheese.
Cicely makes her own wine.
Zelda and I both know how to can and make pickles, salsa, jam, jelly, am I leaving anything out?
Jake and Justin are deer hunters and after seeing that Jake processed his own, Justin figured it out himself.
Len is a super-gardener. Zelda, Joy, Valerie, Jen and Dan, Cicely, and myself have gardens to one extent or another.
Ok, so all of that has to do with food. So in the category of the arts, Nate is in drama productions several times a year. Fiona's in her first. I play flute and dabble in guitar. Nick is taking fiddle lessons (as is Bree and I'm not sure about Noah). Fiona and Daisy, Anton and Nate all play piano; Jen is a piano teacher. I know and teach several different visual art forms. Justin painted a mural in his dining room. Bobbie sings in the church choir. Iris and Fiona are Irish dancers.
Being raised by a small town general contractor, Jake can roof and do basic carpentry and drywall, insulation and electric work, concrete and plumbing. Barb can trim a tree, and I can fake it based on familial knowledge. Many of us know how to shoot a gun (and I can shoot a bow...). Gretchen has an intuitive sense of physiology backed by book-learnin' and experience. At least 6 of us have taught in one kind of classroom or another.
We're not the sorts to figure it's too hard to learn something, or that it wouldn't be worth it. We like to know and we like to do.
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