Living History Days Spring 2013

Last weekend we had our bi-annual revolutionary war reenactment!

We are part of a reenacting group called Vision Heirs, and we have been reenacting with them for almost 5 years, and now there are about 140 volunteers!!  When we joined there well under 100 volunteers!!

Everything went very well, and we all had a great time talking to people and showing them things they didn't know about the history of our nation.  We were at a new location this year which was a bit challenging, but so much fun!

This castle is called the Westminster Castle; or "The Big Red Castle" 

We went up into the tower, and I could see all the way to the airport!

  

It was built in 1892 it is really beautiful inside, unfortunately I was too busy looking at it to take any pictures, so I'm sorry but you will just have to visit it for yourself!

Here is the view of our encampment from up in the tower!

That is a lot of cars!! I didn't know they had those back then...haha jkjk

The castle is up on a hill, so there is an amazing view of the Denver skyline!

Too bad it was so hazy :\

I have more pictures of other things like our battle reenactment!

I will probably post them in the next couple days, so check back soon!!

Rebekah

Snow!

It's May first, so we get a snow storm!!

How cool is that!?! Most other places people are planting their gardens, mowing their grass, enjoying the nice weather, but we get a snow storm.  I think it's pretty cool! We really need the moisture here.  And I'm not really into gardening because you usually can't plant until June, and you are really lucky if your garden lasts until late August or early September!  I always thought that was normal, until I talked to people who didn't live here, where crazy unpredictable weather is the norm, but I guess a lot of places you can plant as early as April, and sometimes even March!!  That is crazy! They must actually be able to harvest stuff out of their gardens!

Rebekah

Betty, The Squirrel

This is Betty, she is Alvin's mate.

We caught her this afternoon.

Squirrels sure are easy to catch around here!

She was much much more nervous than Alvin, I didn't know that a squirrel could be more nervous than Alvin!

We didn't keep her that long.  She might have babies to take care of!

Rebekah

Alvin, The Squirrel

This here squirrel has been terrorizing our bird feeder for a while now.

So we decided to make him our pet for a little while.

And then we are going to bring him to another place,

where he can terrorize all the bird feeders we wants to! 

Rebekah