Hello Everyone!
I hope everyone had a great weekend. We did a little time traveling, a little wildlife rescue and a battle with modern technology. You're probably looking quizzical and saying "huh?" Well this is what we did when we time traveled. Our town had a Civil War Reenactment. Here are only a few of the pics that I took. You might think this is a lot but I actually took about 178 pics.
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| Battle around the town square. |
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| One of the commanders or captains or someone important. |
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| March of the Union soldiers. |
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| Shooting the canons. Twas loud. |
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| One of the upper class ladies of that time. |
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| One of the "matrons" doing some knitting. |
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| A few of the "casualties" of the war. Notice the one guy is holding his hat over his face. Some of these "deaths" were pretty funny when you saw them move a bit or when it was all over and they all hopped up off the ground. |
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| I loved this guy's canteen with the number 2. It really was that blue color. I just turned the rest black and white so it would really stand out. |
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| Not sure about these pants. Are they on backwards? Hope they don't fall off. |
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| This guy looked like he had spent considerable time on the battle front. Maybe with the war over he can find a local barber. ;) |
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Now onto the wildlife rescue. When we came home from the reenactment, my hubby went out to fix my mower (replace the blades) and found this little guy.
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| Baby Bard Owl |
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| Isn't he cute? |
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We had a difficult time finding anyone to help us with this little owl. After several phone calls, we finally tried the fire station. One of the fireman just happened to know an officer with the Conservation Dept. We contacted him and he told us he could come out in about 30 to 45 minutes but that he was in the middle of arresting someone. I didn't even know they could do that. We could tell that he (she) was injured so we didn't want to get too close. And really, what were we going to do? Owls aren't your everyday pet. Anyway, the officer was able to get "our" little owl and take him in to be treated. Hopefully they can do something for him.
Now onto my next subject. Sorry for the long post buy hey, it's been a busy weekend. Modern Technology. Well, computers to be more specific. Computers are those things you love to hate. Or is it hate to love? Any way you look at it it is a love hate relationship. At least it is for me. If you remember, I recently purchased a lovely new laptop. However, I had some non-functioning keys and a few other issues and had to exchange it for another. I had to wait about a week for Best Buy to get another one in the store. In the meantime, my desktop died. I still don't know what happened or what is wrong with it. The geek squad guy (when I was growing up, it was not a good thing if you were called a geek) said they could look at it for free. Of course if they have to repair it then there would be a charge. Yikes! Hope it is something simple. Speaking of hating computers, I had this post almost done and was ready to sign off when my NEW LAPTOP decided to be ultra sensitive and delete have of my text. Fortunately, it didn't delete all the pictures so I didn't have to go through all that again but it was still very irritating (that's the hating part). However, all in all, I am really enjoying my new computer. I have one more "computer" to have to learn. My hubby just upgraded to a "Smart Phone". I am having to learn how to use it so I can show him. He's not as familiar with computers as I am and does better when shown something rather than reading the manual. Some aspects of the phone are really cool but it is so sensitive that I have to keep hitting the back button because I accidentally hit something that I really didn't want. I guess it will just take time to get used to it. For me, I'm still loving my flip phone. I guess I'll finish my weekend ramblings. Hope I haven't put you all to sleep. ;) I do have a project or two to post so stay tuned. It just won't be tomorrow (or maybe that's today since it's almost midnight) as it is our 13th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, my hubby has to work but I am joining up with some of my family and taking the kids to a river to do some fishing and then taking a tour of a fish hatchery. This is kind of a end of the school year field trip/treat. So until next time...
Have a blessed day,
maggie jane
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