Here you see a bed for the children in the upper quarters of the windmill...we learned that a family with as many as seven or ten children might live in one. Also, in this bed was a shelf near the foot...so we thought....actually we say that it was a deep shelf and was in reality a crib for the baby...a metal bedwarmer would be used to warm the sheets and then the doors shut to keep the children warm....
We found bed cabinets placed in locations all over the inside of the windmill (mollin)...cabinet doors to beds seemed to appear out of no where..very interesting. Also, all the beds are quite short because people sat up to sleep...they were afraid one might swallow their tongue if they slept laying down.
Lastly, you see a photo of the working room of the windmill...notice the collection of clogs in the window sill....the clogs are used so that the windmill keeper can "climb" the huge wheel that changes the direction of the windmill to catch the wind properly....
This was an amazing thing to see....how it works, what it does, and the genius behind the design....miraculous really.
We also saw a wonderful little aviary outside the mill with precious little finches nesting and their colorful mates singing and taunting us...we ate declicous apples grown on the mill farm,...
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