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July 27, 2010 is Walk on Stilts Day. The perfect way to celebrate this holiday is to learn the history of stilts and to make your own recycled cans version of stilts.You don't see a lot of stilt walkers. Usually they are found in parades and at circuses. Stilt-walking is an ancient art that only requires a pair of stilts and lots of practice. Stilt-walking is said to have originated in Landes, France. Shepherds took up stilt-walking, as early as the 1800's, as a way to not only save time getting to their scattered flocks but also to navigate areas that were sometimes treacherous. According to Wikipedia: Stilts are poles, posts or pillars used to allow a person or structure to stand at a distance above the ground. Walking stilts are poles equipped with steps for the feet to stand on, or straps to attach them to the legs, for the purpose of walking while elevated above a normal height. In flood plains, and on beaches or unstable ground, buildings are often constructed on stilts to protect them from damage by water, waves or shifting soil or sand. Stilts have been used for many hundreds of years. A few fun and amazing Stilt walking records • Most people to simultaneously walk on stilts: 1908. Doug Hunt and the North Park Collegiate HS students organized a mass stilt walk of 625 people walking 100 metres (328 ft) on 12” peg stilts. • Tallest stilts walked on: 56 feet 6 inches. Roy Maloy of Australia, while wearing an overhead safety wire, took five independent steps on 56 ft. 6 inch stilts weighing 50.6 lbs. each. • Longest stilt walk: 24 hours, 76.17 miles (122.58 km). Zdenek Jiruše of Czechoslovakia covered a distance of 76.17 miles (122.58 km) on stilts within 24 hours on 12 June 1992 in Pelhřimov. Why try stilt or can walking? Because walking on Stilts/Cans builds a child's: Balance and Coordination Skills and Their Sense of Achievement and Self-esteem You can try you hand at making wooden stilts: How to Make Wooden Stilts and Stiltwalker.com has interesting information on stilts and stilt walking. But the easiest way to start "stilt" walking is to make Tin Can Stilts. you'll need: 2 - one pound coffee cans or juice cans or even paint cans String or rope or yarn plaited into a braid A screwdriver or awlColorful electrical or duct tape, stickers (the foam one are fun) Directions: Turn the cans upside down, so that the open end is touching the ground (if using paint cans ,put the lids on them and use the handles to tie the rope onto) Then, use a screwdriver or awl to make two holes in each can, one on each side. (An adult should do this step.) String a piece of rope through the holes, and tie off the ends inside the can.This is a "handle" for your child to hold onto. It should be approximately waist high) Decorate the cans Walk on your stilts
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Hello lovely girls, In our country we have been in total lockdown for more than a month now. (34 days). How are you all coping? If it weren't for all those people getting ill and even dying, I would actually enjoy it a lot more. But I am here to mark the silver linings and the good moments of my week. Then I will share it with you all at Annie's blog A Stitch In Time. The mail has become a trickle and i have received only one card this week. The cards I am going to show you today arrived earlier. I like this first one a lot. It comes to me from Germany and it depicts spring for me. As a child we lived next to a large meadow and in spring it was full of flowers. Buttercups were only one type of flower. There were many more. The next card also comes from Germany. It is a vintage birthday card. The image is a cut-out image. There probably is a name for this art, but I don't know what it is called. It is from Nicole and she writes that she found this card in her late grandmother's house. Nicole said that her grandma would have loved the fact that her cards are now being sent all over the world. The translation of the German is: Birthday wishes. So, what did my week look like? Here are my collages from the past week. We are still having rainy, dreary weather. It rained on Good Friday. I started to read a new book. It is called The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris (who wrote Chocolat). Has anyone read this? On Saturday hubby made pancakes for breakfast. We always have pancakes on Saturday, but usually the smaller American ones. That day we had traditional pancakes. Very nice too. On Easter Sunday there was no point in dressing in my Sunday best. So it was a question of 'which apron shall I wear?' I had to laugh at myself. Easter Monday is a normal working day here in Spain. And The day didn't start very well. First of all there was a thick fog and secondly we had no water. I had left washing up from the previous day on the work top and we didn't get our water supply repaired until after dinner! The whole village was without water, it was a fault and thank goodness it was repaired within the day. One of our neighbours brought us some wild asparagus and I made a nice quiche with that. He also brought me desert truffels but I don't quite know what to do with those. Another highlight was a video chat with my son, wife and grandson in Italy. On Tuesday there was more fog. We can literally see it roll into the valley. Luckily it doesn't stay all day. On Wednesday I went out in the car for the first time since the beginning of the lockdown. I needed to shop at the big supermarket in town. Our village has several shops but their stock is limited. I wanted outlandish things like basmati rice and grapefruit juice and stracciatelli yoghurt!. The supermarket was very organised. I had a very short wait until I was waved in by the security guy, and was asked to put on plastic gloves, and an assistant disinfected my trolley. It was great and I was home again in a very short time (the roads are empty). On the way I stopped at the petrol station to collect an Amazon parcel that had arrived. (They don't deliver to our house as we don't have a proper address). In the evening one of our grandchildren called me on Facetime (videochat) to play this funny face app with me. The app changed my face or put a hat or glasses on my face. It was very entertaining. Hubby took a photo yesterday of the meadow next to our plot. Normally our landscape is brown, but after so much rain, the countryside looks green! Very unusual. That is it from me today. Here is something to think about: Of course as usual I will put some funnies at the end. I'm afraid most of them are rather cheesy. (But that's the sort of mood I'm in at the mo). Stay safe, stay healthy, stay home. Have a lovely weekend, Keep smiling, Hugs, Lisca
