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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

FHE tray

I have had this tray laying around for a year, I painted the edges black and the base white. I couldn't quite figure out what I wanted to do with it. Then suddenly it hit me what I could do.

I had chalkboard paint laying around that I bought on clearance at Wal-Mart. Then using my cricut I cut some vinyl and put it on the tray. It has worked great so far.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Its kind of a tradition in my family to go check out any caves that are in an area that we are visiting on vacation. When we moved here to West Virginia there are two touring caves within 20 minutes of where we live. One of them is the 2nd longest cave on the East side of the country. We had family in town this weekend so we went and checked them out.

This particular cave not only had the cool stalagmites and stalactites but also had a lot of history with the civil war. The Confederate soldiers used materials that came from the cave to make 95% of their ammunition and were able to stay hidden from the Union soldiers for months.

These are pictures of the original hoppers that the soldiers used to get the material out of the dirt. There are 16 tons of dirt in one of those!

Here are a couple of shots of some of the things in the cave.

My daughter is 4 and enjoyed seeing everything, if she was a little older I would have talked to her more about how these were created and the process.

Look around and see if there are any caves to check out, it's worth it!!

Monday, May 23, 2011

Learning a little bit more about the past

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. There are many things that have been planned all around the country for it. We live in a little town but it has a part of the civil war in it, there was a battle that happened right in the middle of the town. This weekend we were able to enjoy their reenactment of the battle and time period. It was tons of fun for all of us!!