Fort Schools Have Come to an End

Saturday was the final day of the Fort schools.
Quite warm that day, I went in civies and took pictures.
Here are some I got that day. :)

Bringing out supplies for the dinner picnic :)

Resting under the tree of our Brigade camp expodition

The Engage chatting

Hoop & Stick!

Learning about the Garden!

Break time!

And then we played tag!

I'm really excited I was able to capture this motion shot! :D

Tag!

Sam! One of my favorite volunteers!

Nat! My other favorite volunteer! He's such a character!

We have our first event of the season this Saturday!
If anyone is free, the event is from 10-3pm June 9th. Across from Pearson Air Museum on 5th street at Fort Vancouver. :)

Oct. Thus Far

So far Oct. been a very busy month!
It started out with the online Virtual goat show I'm in charge of, so I had that to get done.

And we had the Fort Vancouver student selection day, that went really well!
Plenty of new students, I'm looking forward to meeting them all. 😄

Then last week our grandparents came up. For the 2nd time this year!!
They've NEVER come up twice in a year before!
Grandpa helped do some stuff on the house, he and I put up a new ceiling fan in our new living room.
And he and dad did a bunch of other stuff, new lights, light switches, etc.
Now we need to pick out flooring and get trim up and the living room will be done!
We had lots of fun while Grandma and Grandpa were here.
We played Phase 10, Golf (the card game), 10,000 (dice game), and a few board games like Aggravation and Sorry.
We also played Life, I lost, as usual. 😑😉

Oh! On the 1st of the month, we came home from church to find some guy had taken our mailbox and post out!
He had stolen the car and was on the run. The police are guessing he knew the area because he tried to go down the drive next to ours to shake the police as there is a curve in the main road right before our driveway.
Anyways he came in too fast and.....

See the brick in the first pic? That's a piece from the 2 ft. wide 3 ft. high brick base our mailbox sat on.
He took it out right at the ground! Broke it in 3-4 pieces!! There was one large piece farther down too!
After he went through our mailbox, he took out 5 of our arborvitae bushes as well.
But the car wasn't totaled! And the guy got out and ran away! They didn't catch him!
They even brought out the K-9. Nothing.....

Oh, well. At least no one was hurt. 😌

Not much going on the rest of the month for us, we have a fashion show we're going to be in on Saturday.
No other Fort stuff for us this month besides that, we're busy the first night of Lantern Tour.
So we'll go do it next month.

It's been an interesting week for me so far.
Monday I caught a feral kitten at our neighbors as we need a barn cat.
Bit the heck out of my right thumb! Ouch! Blood everywhere. Oh, sorry, hope that wasn't TMI?
Hurt like the dickens! But it seems to be doing alright, both my thumb and the kitten. 😉
Caught another kitten too, it bit Megs, but not so bad as my bites. (she only had 2 cuts and a scratch)
Then last night I sliced my other thumb making dinner. Darn Kitchen Aid spiral veggie noodle maker.
Not much blood and pain was almost nonexistent strangely enough, way bigger cut too the ones the kitten did. Weird....
So far I've made it through today with no blood! 😋

Hope you're all having a great month so far!

Fall is here!

And it still gets too warm in the afternoon's on most days for me to wear sweaters.... 😑
But hey, as long as the sun stays out, I won't complain!

This past Saturday we had our Summer's End Promenade.
It was so fun!! We had more people attend in costume then ever before that I can remember, and had more guys there in costume than ever before!
Which is great because we need them there otherwise those great outfits don't get to be shown off!

I'm ashamed to say that even after planning, leaving early to get down there... I forgot my camera!!
Ahhhh! That was the whole reason we wanted to get there 1 1/2 hrs early!!
Oh well, I was able to help some of the ladies with their hair, and do some others things.

I did get to get pictures with my phone, which I'm glad I got a new one with a better camera than my last phone....
The group shots turned out almost as nice as my camera, but the single shots were a little eh.

So I shall share pictures from the era's we had.

Here you shall start in the 1840's and go forward by decade (except we didn't have any 1850's) until you reach our final era of the 1940's.
Isn't it amazing how the styles changed over 100 years!

1840's outfits

The 1860's (the 1850's are very similar, but with bigger and rounder hoops)

The 1970's, from hoops to bustles.

1880's, still bustles, but they're getting smaller

1890's, practically no bustle left, they are more of a roll seated at the top of the hips.

And now we start into the Anne of Green Gables era, the early 1900's!

The 19 teens, these outfits are all from 1917, 100 years ago this year!! The boy-scout uniform is in the front. :)

The Roaring 1920's

The 1930's

And the 1940's! This era seemed to be the most popular this year!

 And then of course we had to get all the guys together for a guys only picture!

Only missing 1 of the guys! we had 18 guys this year!! Yay for all the outfits they got to show off!! :D

And now we are on break for the main events until Christmas at the fort on Dec. 9th.
We do have the schools to prepare for, including going over and accepting applicants this weekend.

Then we have the 2 orientations for those new students where us adults and 2nd year+ students show them the do's and don't of how to interpret and they get a "what to expect" from the leaders of the schools. :)

So how's your Fall going so far?
Hope studying is going well for those who are in school or collage. :)

Fun, Hiking, Birthdays....

Two Saturdays ago us girls took some friends to the Ape Caves. So much fun!
It was the first time I had filed all 7 seats in my car. Which was fun for me! 😊
I didn't get any pictures as I didn't want to carry my camera through the cave like I did last time. 😕
So here are pictures Aus (last 4) and Fritz (first 6) took and sent on to us. 😌

Suspension bridge at Lava canyon. SO fun to cross!

Lava canyon

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Last week Megs hit her 2 decade birthday!
So now Kai is the only teen left in our house!!
Megs went to the Christian Writers Conference in Portland for her birthday.
She went with 3 other friends, Emily, Ivy & Abigayle.
Two are from the Spokane area and one was from TX!
She had tons of fun and learned lots. :)
My moms birthday is next week!
We are going down to Salt & Straw for Ice Cream on her birthday. 😁

The Eclipse was today. SUPER AMAZING!!!
We stayed home, only had 98-99%, but it got darker and was like 5:30am out at 10am!
It cast the coolest shadows too! Wish I had thought to grab my camera! 😑😢
We watched it live on KGW, it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!😍😍


So what'd ya'll do for the Eclipse.
I know quite a few of our friends went down to 100% totality to see it.
How was it?

Fall is Here!!

I know, I know, it was here last week, but I needed something to post about. ;)

Yes, sometime soon the nasty flies, gnats and mosquitoes will go away! Yes!!
And all the creepy spiders that are everywhere!! *shudders* I very muchly dislike spiders.....
Has anyone else noticed there are spiders making webs everywhere!?!

Anyways, this last Saturday we had our Summer's End Promenade at Fort Vancouver.
That's wear folks who participate can wear outfits from the 1840's - 1940's.
Megs wore a buckskin outfit like one Sarah Winnemucca wore in the 1880's, Kai wore a very cute 1940's dress and I wore "my" WWI nurses outfit. :)
We all had lots of fun! Well, except that Kai got several blisters from her shoes.... :/
I didn't get any pictures, otherwise I' would have shared them. Sorry!

Lately us girls have been going down on Wednesday to help out in the Fort Vancouver Sewing Department.
That's always fun, learn more sewing skills, help get stuff made, and get to help find clothing to fit folks coming in for new "costumes". :)

My parent's 33rd Anniversary is coming up in a few days!! :D
Not sure what the plan for that is yet..... they haven't decided......

I get to help photograph another wedding on Oct. 8th!!
No one I know again, but it'll be fun and I'm so excited she asked me to help again!!! :D

And..... since I don't know what else to talk about I shall post some sayings and funnies I like here:

Have a great weekend everyone!

Fair!

Last Friday Dad, Megs and I went to the fair. Kai and mom stayed home as they woke up with the cold I just got over. :-/

It was hot but fun, got to see a lot of interesting things and see some friends! :)
Here are a few pictures I took while we were there.

Herefords from a farm in Ridgefield, they also have a feed store. :)

Angora goats!

Look at the size of this guys head!

Cute sheep. :)

I know the lady who makes and sells these fun 18"doll outfits!

I really liked this cool fort! Great job James! :D

Right after the fair, everyone but me had the respiratory cold! Yuck.
But everyone is almost over it now!

A happy thought, blueberry picking season is almost over! I'm hoping next week will be the last. ;)
It's been kinda fun, but I'm glad it's almost over.

Megs birthday is coming up next week! Not sure what we're doing yet, but we'll see what she wants to do. :)

How was your week?

1860's Base Ball

Nope, I didn't spell that wrong, Baseball started out as two words until NY Times changed to one word (baseball) in 1884. :)

Last Saturday we went to Fort Vancouver's yearly 1860's Base Ball game!
Us girls got to wear hoop skirts!! Such fun!
 And our team, the Occidentals, won for the first time in years!! 23 to 7! :D

So here are some pictures from the game. :)

 Anyone see the photo bomber?? ;)

So, that was our excitement for last weekend. :)
Tomorrow we clean out the barn for our new hay that is coming next week. yippee.

Keep cool in this warm weather!