The start of my reenacting hobby

June 8, 2009 – 8:13 pm by Lorenzo

This past weekend I was in my first Revolutionary War reenactment. I went to Tewksbury, MA on Saturday and Sunday. Though I didn’t camp over the weekend, or get to fire my musket because of not being trained, I did get to march with the First New Hampshire Regiment. On Saturday it was predetermined that the Loyalists would win. On Sunday it was not predetermined and the Colonists won. I did die though!

I was told I was going down, a Loyalist fired, I was reloading my gun like the regiment was ordered too before someone said that I should have fallen. I finally did, like 5 seconds after the guy had shot! The guy hadn’t even been aiming in my direction but, because of the inaccuracies of the black powder muskets, it might not have mattered in those days.

The weather was great and I got a little sun burned. There’s still more equipment to buy, but I’m getting there finally. Enjoy the photos from our camp. Not any from the battle because I was a little busy at the time!

Update: The full album of the event is here

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Things are getting crazy around here!

June 3, 2009 – 6:09 pm by admin

Charlotte and I have received our U.S. passports and we are ready for a trip to England! We are leaving later this month. So much has happened and I’ll definitely have to update you on what we’ve been up to.

I made a brief appearance (at least in voice) during the CNET 404 podcast at 19:06 that was discussing the E3 electronics and gaming expo. Here’s the podcast: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13952_1-10256141-81.html

Thanks for visiting!

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April Fool’s Day is over

April 2, 2009 – 4:43 am by admin

Thank goodness! As if I could ever stop loving foxes!

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That’s it!

April 1, 2009 – 3:46 pm by admin

I’m tired of foxes. I’m done with Jeff. It’s over. I’m now a Bowie Bear fan now!

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A present we won’t forget…

January 24, 2009 – 7:31 pm by admin

Today Charlotte and I woke up and drove down to Boston, getting lost along the way thanks to some bad Google directions, to the New England Aquarium. Charlotte’s sister, Rebecca, had bought each of us a birthday present to be an animal trainer for a day. The training started off with us heading to the harbor seal tank to meet some staff behind the scenes and then do a little training with Cayenne and Trumpet, 2 of the seals.

The seals are trained to each have a target, a different object to put their nose on to start training. One had a blue Tupperware bin and the other had a stick attached to a white ball. I asked if the training was just for entertainment and the trainer, Cheryl, said the moves are helpful for providing medical care. Cheryl had us wave our hand and one of the seals waved back. She tried to get one to kiss me on the check and it wanted none of that. Figures.

We then went to the food preparation room and helped Holly prepare tomorrow’s toys for the harbor seals. The toys are actually dog toys that we wind strips of car wash cloth through in knots and mazes and then stuff up to 3 herring fish inside. We made the toys and then Cheryl placed them into metal buckets that she filled with water. The buckets are placed into large freezers for tomorrow’s play time.

We then head downstairs and worked with Belinda to train a lungfish. She told us that the lungfish is an ancient fish and she was trying to train it to hit its target: a floating rubber bulb attached to a stick. We took photos of Charlotte and myself holding the stick in and it floating around. At first it was watching the target but finally decided to hit the target. Very quickly it was hitting the target and getting shrimp in no time.

Belinda introduced us to Paul, who showed us different marine objects like the tusk of a walrus. Then we held baleen from a whale that Paul said might be from a humpback whale. Charlotte and I went whale watching about a year ago so holding the baleen was interesting. It filters the water so the whale is left with any food it can eat. Paul then took us back to the harbor seals with toothbrushes and the frozen toys Holly had made yesterday.

Paul had 2 other seals, Chuck and Amelia, come by and open their mouths so that we could brush their teeth. The seals held their mouths open and were rewarded for doing a nice job. Next, it was time for the toys.

Charlotte and I each held out the strands of car wash cloth attached to the frozen water with the toys and herring fish inside. The ice melted quickly and the seals were taking turns biting (sometimes not taking turns and biting all at the same time) to get to the fish. I got some pictures of Charlotte sitting on rocks near the water with seals swimming around.

This concluded our day as trainers but we stayed at the museum since our passes allowed us to go through the regular exhibits. The aquarium was crowded but we were able to see lots of animals, including Myrtle the turtle. We had learning in our training that she is hibernating but the trainers are not sure if this is because the water temperature doesn’t change, as her natural waters would in the wild.

We want to say thank you to Rebecca for the wonderful adventure she signed us up for. The photos are posted on Flickr and are accessible on the sidebar.

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