Working in the Family Living Center

Here we are in the Family Living Center (FLC) re-threading the loom, which is a two-day project.  The loom has 456 threads and when it is full has five miles of thread on it.  Each thread has to be threaded through a little eye.  Laborious.  We will do this about every five or six weeks. Doing this together is a great test of a relationship!  I'm happy to say we survived and even prospered.

This is a couple of pictures of Chuck making rope with a family we met at the FLC. One of the great things about Nauvoo is the wonderful people you meet.
We've been assigned as Site Coordinators for the FLC which means we're responsible for keeping it maintained and organized.  The FLC has demonstrations on spinning, candle-making, bread-making, weaving, rope-making, pottery and coopering (barrel-making).  I get to build a fire every day in the beehive oven so we can bake bread. I also am responsible for testing the quality of the bread each day.  Work, work, work!
Because we are so busy in the summer we spend the winter making rope and bread to use the next summer.  This winter we will be making 2,500 ropes and 280 loaves of bread.  The brickyard tells me they have about 10,000 bricks to make and the blacksmith  has about 8,000 little horseshoes and at least a bazillion prairie diamond rings.

Here's Sherry giving a bread demonstration.