This is just a quickie to say that Evelyn of Evee’s blog has found some time in her busy life to do some blog posts. If you’re into things Scottish or you just like beautiful scenery you’ll want to look at her gorgeous photos of the Hebrides which you can see here.
Pining for the West
Meanderings about recipes, books, craft and more
Thanks for directions to Evee’s photographs. What a lovely place that is. I’ve never seen anything like those houses. I loved the photos of the sea. I miss living near the ocean so much. Nothing like a roaring sea to make you feel insignificant and powerless!
Joan,
I hope to go there one day I think the old ‘black houses’ would have kept the worst of the weather out but it would be almost like living down a hole, very dark. I think you’ll be making your home near the ocean sometime in the future, fingers crossed anyway!
Until you mentioned ‘like living down a hole’, I had forgotten that I only recently learned that my great-grandparents, during their foray to Wyoming and Colorado in the late 1800’s, lived in a sod house. Very Little House on the Prairie, but the stone houses are more picturesque.
Yes, I’m keeping my fingers crossed, too, that we can manage the move back to New England and the roaring Atlantic before too long.
Joan,
I hadn’t even heard of sod houses until I read Little House on the Prairie for the first time recently. I suppose they would be easy to heat and cosy but dark. I quite fancy one for the winter! I’m thinking that a roaring Atlantic in a New England winter would be freezing, but New England itself just sounds lovely.
Hey! Thanks, Katrina! Yes, the blackhouses must have been very dark and dismal. Cosy, with the fire in the middle of the floor, maybe?
Evee,
How did they stop the kids from ending up in the fire?! It sounds like a nightmare but I suppose they’d only get burnt once!