Friday, May 31, 2013

Bones and Mummies

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Everyone loves bones, especially dinosaur bones. Big bones...   And little bones! Believable bones, and unbelievable bone...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

"Our Beginnings" in D.C.

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I thought this was a pretty cute picture of Benjamin Franklin wavin' at us...  The flags are at half staff because it's Memorial ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Our Blog Audience

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I'm always amazed when I stop and check out who has been reading our blog!  It's 10:30 in the morning, and so far today we've ha...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Traveling On The Metro to D.C.

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What a simple idea!  Stay outside of D.C. and take the Metro in to the Smithsonian.  Rooms are less expensive, and we won't have to worr...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

America IS great!

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We're in Washington, D.C.   Its Memorial Day weekend. I'm sitting in the rotunda resting while John keeps exploring. There's ...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Brandy Station Battlefield

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While most folks will be getting a three-day weekend, John gets four days off because it was his week to work Sunday through Thursday.  For ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Posting

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When I write up a new post, I try to be informative, positive, encouraging, funny...  Sometimes I don't feel any of those things, though...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Visitors To Our Lil' Farmhouse

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It's never boring around here.  Every 15 - 20 minutes I'm up checking the windows all around the house to see who's come a calli...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Zouaves

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Zouaves.  Specifically Duryee's Zouaves.  From the 5th New York volunteer infantry. No, not that old fat lady on the left!  The f...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Second Manassas

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A year has passed, the winter of course spent in "winter quarters" with little or no fighting by either side.  General George McCl...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

First Manassas

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Yup.  There were two battles at Manassas, a year apart.  Now, Manassas is what the Rebels called the battles because they named their battle...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Skyline Drive

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I'm suffering from allergies just now.  I don't feel real energized, so we've decided to take the lazy way today and drive for o...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Blue Ridge Mountains, Skyline Drive and the Appalachian Trail

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Skyline Drive is closed during the winter due to the elevation resulting in frequent snow and ice.  Some of the Blue Ridge peaks of the ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Lying Fallow

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When we got back to Danville, Virginia this time the fields around our little farmhouse were lying fallow.  A couple of weeks later they wer...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Adieu, Mr. President

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This is a way cool piece of artwork.  I think it shows how honorable a man George Washington was.  I think that's what's missing ...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

Farmhouse Flowers

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For Mother's Day I thought I would share Granpa's photos of flowers around our lil' farmhouse here in Virginia. ...
Thursday, May 9, 2013

River Cruise

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Well, Granpa has been wanting for YEARS to take a cruise.  Remember, "I don't fly, and I don't float?"   Well, for Granpa,...