September 3, 2023

Mary and I thought we had a grip on the lessons and the class for Sunday School this morning. We were wrong… The boys (Ben and Max) were not on the same page as we were – meaning they were interested in everything BUT the lesson! But it all went well and Church was good as Todd spoke about God providing for us.


After lunch (which was crackers and cheese) I emptied the car out – I still had all the stuff in that I took to Kelly’s and brought back from Kelly’s. I put her items for storage in the dresser drawers of her chest in the shed, and put all my stuff away. I downloaded all the photos from yesterday, talked to Claudia about the Fall Tea (Hanna’s Town), and gathered up things to take to Mary’s picnic. I will share that tomorrow, as I have YESTERDAY to catch up with today!

Kelly’s dresser stored in my shed — for now.

So yesterday Kelly and I went to Oglebay for the Fort Henry Days celebration. It’s an 18th Century Encampment and battle re-enactment. There were demonstrations of 18th century life, Punch and Judy puppet shows for the kids, Talks on Midwifery and Myths of White Captives by Native Americans, Dancing, Blacksmithing, Surgeon tent, Bookbinding, fabric demonstrations. It was very informative.

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Punch and Judy puppet show
Myths of White Captives by Native Americans
Fort Henry Days
Original Fort Henry (named after Patrick Henry, the governor of Virginia at the time…)
This is the battle reenactment
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Weapons at Encampment
Cannon
Selling hats – the little girl in the red dress was a cutie – bare feet and all!
Cooking fire
Lots of work to do.

Kelly saw a few people she knew, and she had insights about some of the displays. I saw my friend Louise (and husband Scott) and we chatted for a while. Some of the interesting displays were the Ale sellers, the fabric dyeing, the surgeon’s tent, the Bookbindery (one of the pamphlets was the Art of Farting!), and forge.

Surgeon’s tent
Discarded limbs
Battle site
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Louise engaged in battle!
Free Ale….
Dying material (interesting name)
Bookseller

We walked down to Camp Russel, where the 4-H troops have their camp weeks and where Kelly usually helps with cooking all week. It’s a very nice place and the buildings are well kept.

Kelly in front of Camp Russel’s mess hall and kitchen
Stepping stones outside Camp Russel

From the encampment we drove over to the Oglebay mansion museum. That was one thing I really wanted to see. There is a lot of local history at Oglebay, in the park and the museums and the family. We parked at the gift shop and looked around, then walked up to the mansion. It is beautifully kept, clean and well displayed and very interesting. MORE than worth the price to tour! It’s self guided, with a map and little recordings in most of the rooms. I could live there! Here are just a FEW pictures of a FEW rooms!

Fountain outside the gift shop.
Front of mansion
Sideview
Dining room
Kitchen
Dressing room
Replica on display
Bedroom
Childs room with canopy bed and toys

We passed several office buildings and the greenhouse and the amphitheater. The gardens are amazing and immaculate. The views were spectacular. All in all it was a wonderful day.

View from the path to the mansion
Flower tree- but it wasn’t a tree. It was a wooden post with flowering baskets ARRANGED like a tree!
Leaves were almost as big as we were.
Outbuilding
Glass display inside the greenhouse
More views

We left there, had lunch, and went home to tackle a few projects for the West Alexandria fair. Kelly is a 4-H leader and has her hands in a dozen things! She was working on a display for their chapter, and had some help from her little friend Jo. She just sent me pictures of the finished display! Fair starts tomorrow.

4-H can take you anywhere
Jo working hard
Jo did a great job.

When I left, Kelly and Matt were walking down the driveway holding hands! It was a sweet way to end the visit!

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TOMORROW September 4th is:

Labor Day; National Wildlife Day; National Newspaper Carrier Day; National Macadamia Nut Day.

I’ll take a laborless labor day! Time for a break – after a morning with Kath at the craft festival! God bless…

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