In the old days we used to make our own fun
It's finally started to pour with rain. There was a flash of lightning just now, and that hissing pattering rain outside is just not letting up. AH. Bliss. For the last three days it's been hot and muggy and clammy. Made me feel gross and rancid, the way I felt back during the last summer heatwave. Now my skin feels happy and I can breathe deeply. The froggy people in The Shadow Over Innsmouth must feel this way when they develop gills and realize they can breathe underwater.
Day after tomorrow, there's a historical re-creation two towns away. The 25th Mass. will take part in Colonial Days in this nice little town with a beautiful library. I'm going to enjoy myself--it's just for the day and we're camping out on the library lawn. I hope the weather will be clear and cool.
Time to make a list of fun things to do. I've complained in the past about how some of these guys act like what they've come out for is to sit around in costume griping about real-life issues and acting bored and above-it-all. That gets old real quick. On the other hand, I can gripe about them, of course, but if I want to have a good time I have to damn well come up with some activities I know I'll enjoy. Then they'll be happy, I'll be happy, and hopefully the people who drop by to look at us will be able to have fun talking with us all.
To do:
Fiddle music, definitely.
Singing, perhaps. I only want to do this if there's someone there who will trade songs with me. I feel silly just sitting around singing on my own.
Games. I will buy a rope tomorrow for jumprope--the sort with two people to turn the rope and one to jump. Of all games, that's the one that says "Colonial" to me. And I have a collection of wooden toys that young visitors can play with. The sort where you catch a ball in a wooden cup or hook the ring over the nose of a little Cyrano de Bergerac sort of soldier. In addition, I used to have a wooden top, but a child I used to look after moved away and took it with her. Mom has offered to buy me another at a toy store in town, and I'm very grateful.
Hopscotch: I can't find a reference to it off the top of my head, but maybe I'll look it up on Wikipedia later tonight. I want it to have been around during the Revolution, so I can invite spectators to play it.
For the future: I want to learn to play marbles and period card games (whist and vingt-et-un. I don't even know what those are, but I like the names).
And of course any other suggestions for games and activities that really say "Revolutionary War" are very welcome.
Day after tomorrow, there's a historical re-creation two towns away. The 25th Mass. will take part in Colonial Days in this nice little town with a beautiful library. I'm going to enjoy myself--it's just for the day and we're camping out on the library lawn. I hope the weather will be clear and cool.
Time to make a list of fun things to do. I've complained in the past about how some of these guys act like what they've come out for is to sit around in costume griping about real-life issues and acting bored and above-it-all. That gets old real quick. On the other hand, I can gripe about them, of course, but if I want to have a good time I have to damn well come up with some activities I know I'll enjoy. Then they'll be happy, I'll be happy, and hopefully the people who drop by to look at us will be able to have fun talking with us all.
To do:
Fiddle music, definitely.
Singing, perhaps. I only want to do this if there's someone there who will trade songs with me. I feel silly just sitting around singing on my own.
Games. I will buy a rope tomorrow for jumprope--the sort with two people to turn the rope and one to jump. Of all games, that's the one that says "Colonial" to me. And I have a collection of wooden toys that young visitors can play with. The sort where you catch a ball in a wooden cup or hook the ring over the nose of a little Cyrano de Bergerac sort of soldier. In addition, I used to have a wooden top, but a child I used to look after moved away and took it with her. Mom has offered to buy me another at a toy store in town, and I'm very grateful.
Hopscotch: I can't find a reference to it off the top of my head, but maybe I'll look it up on Wikipedia later tonight. I want it to have been around during the Revolution, so I can invite spectators to play it.
For the future: I want to learn to play marbles and period card games (whist and vingt-et-un. I don't even know what those are, but I like the names).
And of course any other suggestions for games and activities that really say "Revolutionary War" are very welcome.