My Dull Life Blog

A Northeast Woodlands Story as retold by Anne Jennison The Iroquois and Abenaki peoples of the Northeast Woodlands have many stories about what they call "The Three Sisters", the "sustainers of life". These Three Sisters called Corn, Beans, and Squash are central to the cultures and food ways of the Northwestern tribes. It is said that - a long, long time ago, Corn Spirit was so honored by being allowed to be one of the sustainers of life that she asked Creator what more she could do for her people. Creator told Corn Spirit that she could make a doll from the husks of corn, to make the children happy and keep them safe so the adults could do their daily work. Corn Spirit set to work, making the doll. When finished, she gave the doll a beautiful face and sent her to play with the children, and make them happy. The beautiful Cornhusk Doll went from village to village , playing with the children and doing whatever she could for them. Cornhusk Doll knew the best gam...

So apparently this blog isn't really taking off as fast as I had hoped for it to. But slowly its reaching the reason why I even made it. However, in the meantime, I promised a certain place that I would blog about them and get some readers of my blog to check them out. First off let me explain to you who I am trying to promote here in this blog now. I work and volunteer my time to a a place in Warner, NH called the Mt Kearsarge Indian Museum. It was created by none other then Bud Thompson in a small shed like building as he started a very small collection of Native American artifacts. His very first being a small arrowhead he found in his grandfathers crop field. Now you may ask me, "How did he start collecting?" and this is where I can tell you, that when Bud was in second grade a chief from a tribe in Connecticut came to his class, pulled everyone into a circle and spoke to Bud and his class about his people and their history. Immediately Bid was hooked, and hav...

Hello everyone, hope all have been well over the days since I've last posted. Halloween was so much fun as I dressed up as a pirate and walked around with my "Belle" dressed niece. I even managed to find a pirate princess and walked around a bit with her as we all went around for candy. The days have been flying by as well, as I count down the remaining weeks until this semester ends. Thanksgiving and Christmas are also right around the corner, which I am not ready for at all. Today has officially become the first day of snow of the season. Snow, white floofs that fall from the sky during the coldest time of the year. I also have just had to call my insurance company to hopefully get my windshield repiared. While on my way home Thursday night from school, I heard a very loud snap. A snap that sounded like a good size pebble had hit my window, had been of no concern to me at the time. Now, I have been sick for a week (roughly) and have been sick in bed for a few days...

Tuesday night wa ssupppsed to be Merrimack's trick-or-treat. Unfortunately because of the crazy storm and several power outages still trough out the state, Halloween was postponed to tonight'. I decided I was going to walk around with my sister and her family seeing how we got no one at our house in Bradford last night. In order to surprise my niece, I picked her up at school early and had dinner twitch her. She was so excited!!! She threw herself at me and shook her little feet out from under her. I will never forget the excitement she gives off whenever she sees me. Happy Halloween!!!!!!

I can't imagine what half of northern NEw England might be going through right now. Although I was hit with the storm myself, we merely lost power for a few minutes before it came back on. But reports from eversourse are stating that some homes may not get power for three days. So far the only damage my house has witnessed is a downed tree that caused no damage and a leak in the skylight in my bedroom. I woke up at 1 in the morning as my pillow and whole left side was soaked by rain water that leaked through the window. After waking up my parents, my mother and I moved my entire bed out of the way. No I get to climb up onto the roof and check why it leaked. I found out that Halloween has been postponed in many towns due to the downed trees and power outages. A terrible storm to witness at the end of October. May everyone stay safe out there.

Just found out today that my poor little raspberry plant didn't make it. Decided to plant it a few years ago in an area erh other plants. Found out that among those plants was a deadly vine. The vine wrapped itself tenderly around my raspberry and suddenly decided to strangle the life from it. So today I say goodbye to my little plant. May you R.I.P