March 2009 Meeting

In March we had our last meeting of the year. The boys mostly did their drill, and they looked great!!

We had two newer members to our ranks, Zeke and Robert:

And we had one smaller member as well:

But he couldn’t quite remember not to shoot the photographer!

The boys had some practice with safety inspection:

They also practiced their wheel turns (is that what you call it??), and they looked great!!

And they practiced firing, though you’ll notice the smaller member seemed to have too much of a kick back from his gun!

But he got it this time:

And finally some marching:

Check out all the pictures in my album here.

Now on to the reenacting season!

Last Meeting Before the Season February 2008

So tonight we had the last official meeting before the 2008 season starts. We started off with some meeting type stuff, which I am sure Bruce will send out in an email to anyone that needs to know. We got to meet another new member (Hi Glen!!), which is very exciting for us! After all the important stuff was handled, the boys got to drill for a bit. This was actually the first time I had seen the boys drill in the gym and they looked pretty darn good. It took a little bit to warm up from the rustiness of winter, but soon they were looking like they have been doing it for years (which some of them have)! The new guys fit right in, and looked to be having fun themselves. I think this will be a very fun year. I took a few pictures of them drilling, which can be seen below, and I also took some video of them. Unfortunately the batteries on my camera died, so I couldn’t get any really good shots of them. Here are the pictures I got, and a short video I was able to get is at the bottom. Enjoy! (Well there was sound on the video, some awesome drumming by Todd, but I had to edit it on Windows Vista, which apparently doesn’t play sound on my videos … isn’t that awesome? So you will just have to imagine some stellar drumming in your head!)

Believe me yours faithfully,
Rachel

Pot Luck Meeting, February 2008

On February 24th we had a pot luck meeting. We needed to have a meeting to hammer out the details of the schedule for 2008, so we all brought over a dish and made a night of it. We had our meeting, voted on our schedule, our family got officially voted into the regiment (yay!), we got to meet a new member, Lorenzo, (yay!), and then we had dinner. After dinner we went and watched some dvd’s of past events, a few from this year and one that Joe brought from England in 1987. Everyone was abuzz that we might be going back to England in 2011. I hope we do! I think that would just be a blast!! The night was a fun night, and I am very excited about the upcoming year! Check out some more pictures from the night: photo album.

Believe me yours faithfully,
Rachel