Life has been busy....

I started this blog as a kind of journal, so that family and friends could see what I have been up to.  I have not been very good about keeping it up, but since I don't have anyone who follows it regularly, I guess it doesn't matter that much.  At the end of March I went to Texas for a couple of weeks.  I helped one of my sons to move there.  Got home and promptly got sick for a week with a relatively high fever.  Later in May I went to Mississippi for a few weeks for a new grandbaby.  Now that I am back home, I really need to work on decluttering my house and working on conquering the jungle of weeds.  But I have had a lot of fun traveling recently. Now it is time to stay home and get things done.

While in Texas, we went to the Scarborough Fair (Renaissance Fair).  As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas.  It seems to apply to their Renaissance Fairs, too.  It was great!  Perfect weather, too.  It was breezy, and not too hot.  I got another Renaissance Puppet, a gryphon.  Yes, the people who sell the fantasy puppets at the Maryland Renaissance Fair were at the Texas one, too.  My son and I walked into the shop, he with his gryphon, and me with my unicorn, just for fun.  The shop attendant quipped, "I've been wondering all day when you were going to stop by to see the family."  They had more buildings at that Faire, archways, a troll bridge and a mermaid pool.  We missed that last place.  We evidently missed an entire section of the Faire and didn't realize it till we were on the way home.  Hopefully we can go again some other year and see the part we missed.

In Mississippi, they were having a big 150 year commemoration of the siege of Vicksburg.  I got to go to some of the events for that.  When we arrived at the battlefield, we had just opened the car doors when a cannon was shot very, very close by!  We were all very startled and jumped!  We got to see a demonstration of rifles, and hear a little about the different weapons, etc.  It was very sobering, to think of the huge loss of life during that siege, and that was only one of many battles of the Civil 
War.

Every state has its historical sites and various events, and I enjoy visiting them.