Join Me for Live Chat
I have really missed the traveling part of our work and hope that we will have opportunities to do that again. I have so loved getting to meet homeschooling families in many places. It’s not the same, but I also enjoy meeting with mamas online. I want to invite each of you to join me for a Live Chat a week from today on Wednesday, July 27 at 1:00 p.m. Central.
Here’s a link to sign up for this Zoom meeting. Expect to receive an email reminder as soon as you sign up. The email you receive has a link that you can click just before 1:00 p.m. Central on Wednesday, July 27.
I am grateful for the technology that allows us to get together online and for the technology that allows us to share messages with parents through video. It is amusing to us to look back at the technology we have used through the years.
We have made many videos and hosted many live webinars around our house. Here Ethan and I work on an early video in our library. Notice our very low tech lighting, otherwise known as work lights. We used this same kind of lighting years ago when we were doing our first plays.
Here Ray does a webinar in our remodeled office. As you can see, we have taken a step up in our lighting. In the corner are objects from around the house which we have pulled together for a “set.”
Here Ethan and I are in our living room during a long ago Christmas season. Notice the toys for grandchildren just out of the video camera’s view.
Later Titus became our videographer. Here Ray is our living room again. As you can see, our house doesn’t stay looking the same for very long.
Here I am in front of the same fireplace with yet a third decoration hanging on that same wall to the left.
Now that we have moved to the newest warehouse and headquarters, Ray and I do audio recordings in what is now the old warehouse across the driveway from our house. However, we very much enjoyed doing our first audio recordings at Omnisound on Music Row in Nashville. We rented space for 12-hour blocks of time because it was less expensive that way. Then we would take turns reading from 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m.
Ray would read our high school Exploring America for an hour.
Then I would read our middle school From Adam to Us for an hour. We made several trips to Nashville to record for a couple of days at a time until we finished our first, and so far our only, audio books. We do have big plans to add more audio books in time, now that we can record them in Gainesboro.
We’ve recorded video in some interesting places, too. Here Mary Evelyn operates the camera in the reconstructed Little House in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin.
Phil and Donna have accompanied us on many of our trips. Sometimes we have made videos while traveling. In Fort Worth, I interviewed a cowboy who assisted tourists, . . .
. . . including me, who wanted to sit on a real longhorn steer.
We especially enjoyed filming with Donna at the Reagan Library in California and . . .
. . . with John at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas.
Ray and I were on our own while we filmed at Almanzo Wilder’s boyhood home in Malone, New York. It was so fun to stand in the real Farmer Boy kitchen.
I am grateful for all of the beautiful places that Notgrass History has taken me and all of the opportunities to see His hand at work in what He has made, including in the lives of the people we study in history.
The Lord has established His throne in the heavens,
And His sovereignty rules over all.
Bless the Lord, you His angels,
Mighty in strength, who perform His word,
Obeying the voice of His word!
Bless the Lord, all you His hosts,
You who serve Him, doing His will.
Bless the Lord, all you works of His,
In all places of His dominion;
Bless the Lord, O my soul!
Psalm 103:19-22