The FReeper Foxhole Enjoys a Lazy Sunday and Reviews Civil War Regimental Colors - Nov. 21st, 2004

http://www.nps.gov/mana/education/Rally%20Around%20the%20Flag.pdf ^

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks feather. Wait until you see it all finished, I think you'll really like it. Sam did a good job on the trim.

[PhilDragoo]

My older wiser brother went from Westinghouse on his own. When I went on my own he said, "Making money hand over fist, doing what you love, wondering what took you so long."

American Dream dittos.

[snippy_about_it]

in the 3rd photo there appears to be a suspicious looking person walikng away.

With his camo field jacket on he's about to disappear into the trees! He's too sly for the coppers. LOL.

I don't see a coffee pot. This strikes me as vaguely unamerican!

Well we can't be accused of that. The coffee pot, microwave and fridge are on the wall opposite the office desk. I'll take a picture tomorrow for proof. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Phil. We've certainly discussed how it would have been a wise move when we were younger but you always think you have tomorrow and never seem to have any money.

We still don't have any money but we think we are wiser and what the heck, like you say, it is the American dream.

We don't expect to make money hand over fist, but we'll be happy to keep roofs over our heads.

[Valin]

I seem to recall that Wilmer McLean had a farm on Bull Run cheek, and after the battle he moved to get away from the war.

[snippy_about_it]

Wilmer McLean stood on the front porch of his two-story brick house awaiting the arrival of General Robert E Lee. In the early afternoon on that day, General Lee, accompanied by Colonel Charles Marshall, arrived on horseback. Wil extended his greetings to the two Confederate officers and invited them into his parlor. And there, on April 9, 1865, they awaited the arrival of the other guests.

At about 1:30pm, a group of Union officers arrived on horseback. Among those were Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, Major General P. H. Sheridan, Major General E. O. C. Ord, Major General Wesley Merritt, Major General George Armstrong Custer, and Captain Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln.


General Grant and several of the Union officers entered the parlor where General Lee was waiting. For the next hour and a half, General Lee and General Grant discussed and came to agreement on the terms of surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, which, for all practical purposes, ended the long, bloody war.


And, while Lee and Grant were conferring, Wil McLean waited outside the house where, I can only surmise, he must have thought about the hand of fate that brought this event to his home at Appomattox Court House.


Wil, a retired Major in the Virginia militia, was too old to be conscripted when that un-civil war began. For the majority of the duration of the war, he was a merchant primarily dealing in the buying and selling of sugar. But, at the outset of the war in 1861, he was a farmer living in northern Virginia with his family.


The war had struck close to home early on, so, concerned for the safety of his family, Wil and his family moved from the war zone in northern Virginia to central Virginia and eventually bought a home at Appomattox Court House. And just how close to his northern Virginia home had the war come? Well, you see, the first battle of the war, the First Battle of Manassas, also known by northerners as the First Battle of Bull Run, fought on July 21, 1861, took place on Wil McLean’s farm.


So, in a most unusual twist of fate, the War Between the States started in Wil McLean’s back yard in 1861 and ended in his parlor in 1865.



Copyright November 2002 by Simone J. Pace

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Phil. We're gonna give it the good old American try. :-)

[SAMWolf]

Cool! That brings back some memories. :-)

[SAMWolf]

Give us a chance we're just getting started. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

Evening w_over_w. Lot of work and we're learning as we go. Opened Quickbooks yesterday and boy is that intimidating, I haven't tried any accounting sincethe mid 70's. I'm a lot better at the PO system, wrote a few of those in my younger days.

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!

[Professional Engineer]

The 50,000 quart silo is the 95 recycle bin we have to figure what the heck to do with. We had nice little bins that were picked up every week since I've lived in this town.

Now, without notice (that I recall) we have this large blue monstrosity, along with the large gray/brown monstrosity. Unlike the other 998 households in the neighborhood, I refuse to just let the things sit on the driveway, or on the grass, or in the backyard, so I've made concrete pads for them.

[snippy_about_it]

Now that looks good. Lots of money!

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks. They have those things here in Oregon. Back home we just put the bags out or use our own store bought Rubbermaid cans. Sheesh. Recycle - bah humbug. The media followed our trucks in Ohio and they were dumping the recycle bin stuff in the same hole as the trash.