Re Enactments/Pat Cleburne Days

Our whole family has been involved in Re-enactments! Here is my eldest, Jessie and my youngest, Daniel, enjoying Pat Cleburne Days here in Cleburne, Texas! It was a beautiful day!

As ranch folks, we have a tender part in our hearts for the old west of course and that has led us to also participate in Re-enactments and fun with those we’ve met who enjoy history. When in “Character” we become people from that time period and we thoroughly enjoy it…partly because it is who we are in real life, or who we would have been if born in that time period as far as the clothes we might have worn and the places we might have sought out to be. Our characters model real ranch life many times.

Daniel has a fascination with guns…has since he was a little tyke! He is now certified in shooting Canons and is a part of Terry's Texas Rangers! This is Daniel loading and preparing to fire.

This next one was a little blurry but that's what happens when one of them fires...it is actually very dangerous, earth shakingly loud and that is why a person has to be trained and certified to do this.

Here's Daniel playing for us at camp. His uniform is what the Confederate Artillery Units wore. He just learned "When Johnny Comes Marching Home."

Another activity of the day, learning to make Rag Dolls.

Here is a dress that Jessie is working on for Re-enactments...she will be adding more lace to the top and to the bottom and using her hoop skirt once she is done.

This is Robert our Corpsman "Army Medic".