Andrea Burlingame

Some of the things I have learned (and am still learning) without schooling:

~ To be a mother
~ To knit
~ To grow herb and vegetable gardens
~ To fish with a rod and reel
~ To sew
~ To cook
~ To practice yoga
~ To ride a horse
~ To train a dog
~ To read a topographic map
~ To read a compass
~ To sail a boat
~ To make woodcut prints
~ To make a campfire
~ To make a fire in a woodstove
~ To chop wood efficiently
~ To tell time
~ To read ( I taught myself, before I went to school)
~ To tune my car engine
~ To change a tire
~ To change my brake pads
~ To ride a bike
~ To use a computer
~ To swim
~ To ride a wave on a boogie board
~ To harvest clams
~ To harvest wild mushrooms

Hey this is fun!

~Andrea

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In a message dated 6/8/2004 7:10:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
aburlingame@... writes:

~ To harvest wild mushrooms




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Two kinds of wild mushroom hunters:

Good ones and dead ones! <G>

~Kelly


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Andrea Burlingame

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LOL ... Too true!

~Andrea

Andrea Burlingame

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I haven't harvested mushrooms in several years, but when I did I was still
double checking my harvest with a very experienced mushroom hunter friend of
mine! He died a few years ago (from old age, not mushrooms! <G>)

~Andrea
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Karen McLaughlin

<< What are some things you've learned entirely outside of school?>>

-Knitting/crochet/cross stitch
-How to use the Internet.
-Yoga
-Breastfeeding
-Natural home remedies/natural health therapies
-How to trust my intuition
-How to live in the present (still working on this one a lot!!)
-Bicycle touring (including planning routes, packing appropriately, and
effectively using the gears on my bike!)
-Reading (read before starting school)
-Papermaking (had a brief flirtation with this a few years ago and will
probably pick it up again someday)
-Writing for publication
-How to publish a newsletter
-Gardening
-Cooking (including bread baking and preserving)- I teach vegetarian
cooking
classes and do veg nutrition workshops
-How to run a small business (still learning a lot here)
-Wildlife and plant identification (currently learning about different
kinds
of salamanders due to ds Noah's latest hobby-salamander hunting <g>)
-How to keep a bearded dragon as a pet (big learning curve happening here
too, have had our dragon "Spark" for a month now!)

That's all I can think of for now!

Karen

Karen McLaughlin

<< What are some things you've learned entirely outside of school?>>

-Knitting/crochet/cross stitch
-How to use the Internet.
-Yoga
-Breastfeeding
-Natural home remedies/natural health therapies
-How to trust my intuition
-How to live in the present (still working on this one a lot!!)
-Bicycle touring (including planning routes, packing appropriately, and
effectively using the gears on my bike!)
-Reading (read before starting school)
-Writing for publication
-How to publish a newsletter
-Gardening
-Cooking (including bread baking and preserving)- I teach vegetarian
cooking classes and do veg nutrition workshops
-How to run a small business (still learning a lot here)
-Wildlife and plant identification (currently learning about different
kinds of salamanders due to ds Noah's latest hobby-salamander hunting <g>)
-How to keep a bearded dragon as a pet (big learning curve happening here
too, have had our dragon "Spark" for a month now!)

Things I still want to learn/do:

-sewing
-acupuncture
-pottery
-ride my bike across Canada with my family (I've gone from Kingston to
Halifax already, but the rest of the family hasn't so I guess I get to do
that part again!)
-write a book
-play piano
-play flute
-do some kind of international volunteering as a family

That's all I can think of for now!

Karen

the_clevengers

The kids and I went to go see a talk today by the "Reptile Man". He
brought lots of different reptiles with him and was really
fascinating. But the thing he said that refers to the title of this
post is that he wanted to figure out how to de-venomize snakes. So he
went to the library and read all that he could read about it. Then he
went out and found a bunch of road-kill rattlesnakes to disect and
practice on. Eventually, he figured out a technique to de-venomize
snakes, and now he travels around and does the technique on various
snakes around the country.

I just thought that was a pretty amazing thing to have taught
oneself, and an interesting way to have gone about it...

Blue Skies,
-Robin-

Cindi

> << What are some things you've learned entirely outside of school

Things I learned outside of school as a kid:

How to read
sewing
knitting
crocheting
painting (my room, repeatedly)
baking (had my own mini-pie business at age 8)
some auto mechanics
tending animals; sheep, cows, chickens

As an adult:

more auto mechanics (rebuilt my engine)
painting houses professionally
drawing topographical maps
welding
blacksmithing
architectural drafting
gardening

everything it takes to build a house including;
forming a foundation
pouring concrete
framing
plumbing
wiring, electrical and communications
heating ductwork (sheetmetal)
gas pipe
drywall
shingles
roofing
tile, brick, and rock work

working on learning:

cabinetmaking
stained glass
architectural rendering
coppersmithing
archery
guitar
CAD

When I was a kid it seemed to me that my dad knew how to do
everything. He was kind of a jack-of-all-trades. Maybe that's where
I got the idea that I could do anything I wanted. I always seemed to
have that feeling, even when I was very young. I was forever coming
up with projects I wanted to do, and my parents would find a way to
get me what I needed.

Cindi

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In a message dated 6/11/2004 9:07:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tri_mom@... writes:

> Eventually, he figured out a technique to de-venomize
> snakes, and now he travels around and does the technique on various
> snakes around the country.

Does he do this to pet snakes or snakes in the wild? I'm wondering, since it
seems it would affect a snake's ability to eat (catch prey, defend itsself,
etc.).

Peace,
Sang


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the_clevengers

--- In [email protected], Sanguinegirl83@a...
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> Does he do this to pet snakes or snakes in the wild? I'm wondering,
since it
> seems it would affect a snake's ability to eat (catch prey, defend
itsself,
> etc.).


No, he's called in when a dangerous reptile is in someone's home -
like the police go in on a drug bust and find an alligator behind the
couch - that was one of his stories. Another one was where a boy
bought a cute little 15" long snake and it was his favorite pet and
he slept with it, but eventually as it got bigger and bigger the
parents got worried. The Reptile man ended up with it and when he
pulled it out of its box it was about a 12-foot long constrictor.
Yeah, not what I'd want my kid cuddling up with at night! It sounded
like all of the animals that he'd received had been rescues of some
sort or animals that he'd been called in to catch because of danger
to others.

Blue Skies,
-Robin-

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In a message dated 6/18/2004 4:04:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tri_mom@... writes:

> No, he's called in when a dangerous reptile is in someone's home -

Neat job!

it was about a 12-foot long constrictor.
Yeah, not what I'd want my kid cuddling up with at night!
Me either!!

Sounds like someone they'd have on Animal Cops or something! Thanks for
sharing!

Peace,
Sang


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