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We learned how Pa made doors for the house and barn today without nails. Just thinking about the time and talent it took for him to make the wooden pegs is amazing to me. I look at our solid, wooden door today, and it does not have nails holding it together. But it does have heavy screws holding the hinges on to the door and door frame.
In the next chapter that we read today, Pa built a fireplace and chimney. I watched my father-in-law build our fireplace and chimney many years ago, and I compared my memory to the story today. Pa Ingalls had a very hard job with very little material at hand. He just used what he could find in the creek bottoms for rocks, and he made mud to hold it together. He did not have scaffolding to make taller than the house, so he improvised.
Have a joyous learning day! |
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