Roasting chestnuts on an open fire
Jis Fer Grins... How to speak like a homesteader
Listed below are fun activities to do at home.
- Plant vegetable and flower seeds and watch them grow in the ground or in containers.
- Help your child draw a map of your house or apartment.
- They could draw the block or neighborhood.
- Have an evening to play board games like Junior Monopoly, Game of Life, Scrabble, checkers or card games like UNO. Have pizza and make it a festive time.
- Try some creativity ideas. Let the children create the puppets for the puppet show. Or put problem-solving puzzles together; tell jokes and stories. Have a spelling bee; experiment with bubbles; make a scavenger hunt as a walk in your neighborhood; or play charades.
- Play simple outdoor games like jump rope or hop scotch. Fly a kite or rollerblade. Cook a family barbecue or let your child bake something and give it away to a friend. Rent or borrow a video from a friend and make your own popcorn, pop or juice and watch it as a family. You can pause the movie for the needed bathroom break. Start a collection by organizing baseball cards, buttons, stickers or rocks.
Source: University of Illinois Extension - Thrifty Living
You really can enjoy chestnuts roasting on an open fire!
Take a break and enjoy an old-fashioned pastime: roasting chestnuts. Whether on a campfire, an outdoor fire pit, or your family room fireplace, roasting chestnuts on an open fire is the way these delicious nuts were enjoyed in older times. Homestead fun and a yummy treat.
Frosty The Snowman
Building a snowman provides an entertaining, creative way to get some fresh air on a lazy winter day. You'll need a few inches of snow on the ground, a team effort and some gloves or mittens.
HOMESTEADING NOMENCLATURE—How to speak like a homesteader
HOSES (n, Ho-ses)- Big dogs you ride around on (Real Word- Horses)
JEET (Phrase) - Question regarding one’s food consumption. Usage: "Jeet yet?"
RETARD (v or d.o.) -To stop working. Usage: “My grampaw retard at age 65.”
HEIDI - (n) - Greeting.
HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting. Usage: “Heidi! Hire yew?"
CHESTER DRAWERS (n) an item in which to place folded clothes. Usage: "Mawma, where's my new tube socks?" "Dija check 'da chester drawers?"
BARD - (v) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow." Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."
JAWJUH - (n) - The state north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck."
BAMMER - (n) - The state west of Jawjuh. Biggest city is Berminhayum. Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvements."
MUNTS - (n) - A calendar division. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from eem in munts."
THANK - (v) - Ability to cognitively process. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a burger."
IGNERT - (adj) - Not smart. Usage: "Them bammer boys sure are ignert!"
RANCH - (n) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage: "I thank I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."
ALL - (n) - A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts some all in my pickup truck."
FAR - (n) - A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck, that thing's gonna ketch far."
TAR - (n) - A rubber wheel. Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."
TIRE - (n) - A tall monument. Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."
FAT - (n, or v) - a battle or combat; to engage in battle or combat. Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup y'uh."
RATS - (n) - Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We Homesteaders are willin' to fat for are rats."
FARN - (adj) - Not domestic. Usage: "I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed...must be from some farn country."
DID - (adj) - Not alive. Usage: "He's did, Jim."
EAR - (n) - A colorless, odorless gas: Contains oxygen. Usage: "He cain't breathe...give 'im some ear!"
BOB WAR - (n) - A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."
JEW HERE - (n & v) contraction. Usage: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?"
HAZE - a contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah...haze ignert. He ain't thanked but a minnit'n 'is laf."
SEED - (v) - past tense of "to see". Usage: "Have jew seed 'im?"
VIEW - (v & pron) contraction. Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City... view?"
GUBMINT - (n) - A bureaucratic institution. Usage: "Them gubmint boys shore is ignert."
Collected and adapted from sources here and there
