While normal people watched football

Normal people, like my wife, watch football on Saturdays. Red, Smiley and I do not. Kat was actually listening to the game at our ward's "Super" Saturday. Honestly, I fail to see what is so super about it. I am sure they also fail to see why I spent my time and money on a reproduction of a 1812 boarding pike. By the way Kat did not take BYU's tragic lose very well. I almost had to call for someone to take us to a safe house. Anyways while the rest of America was watching college football, Red and I mounted my new pike head onto a pole. It was a lot of fun. You can see Red below wearing the required safety googles. You can see the pike in her hand. I don't think it was a great reproduction but then again I have never seen a real one.
Here you can see her helping me marked where the pike fits on the pole.
As you can see that was not all she marked.

Here is a photo of her building a tower.
The project didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, even with Red's help, so I am not posting any photos of the result.

For those of you who do not regular attend "Super" Saturdays they last for a very long time, or Kat went to the movies. Either way we were on our own for dinner. I made a vegetarian Thanksgiving Dinner. Not because I am opposed to eating of animal flesh but because we didn't actual have any turkey and after all the pike mounting I was in no mood to walking to the store. So here it is.
Yes that is stove top stuffing, frozen corn and mashed potatoes with as much butter as I could get away with. The kids enjoyed it.

I thought it only fair to let Red take a photo or two as can be seen below.

All in all it was not bad evening, and now we can repeal boarders with greater efficiency.

And Another One Bits the Dust

So we just hosted the best Civil War Reenactment in the I have ever seen. It was a lot of fun but more importantly it was educational. I have provided a few of photos.

OMG hes been shot! These guys came from CA for our little event.

I told everyone in this photo to pose as if they had died while in the fight. As you can see Yankees fail to follow instructions.

Cavalry to the rescue.

Poor Confederate, died in his prime.

This in my favorite. I am the one in the weeds.

I wish I had thought to lay those two muskets down.

This Yankee may be a bit confused as to what side he should be on, but he is going to open a extra large can of whoop ass either way.

We watched as the Yankees fled in disarray.

I was able to yell "Over the top boys nobody lived forever" for the first time in my life and it actually applied to what I was doing.

This a good view of me from behind.

My tent is the extra large and comfortable one on the left.

Jesse James

I just watched the The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443680/

To be honest I was not expecting much. I had heard this was basically a love story, well I heard wrong. I have always felt the James and Young gang was a by-product of Missouri Guerrilla warfare starring notable characters such as William Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson. It is a portion of our Civil War I study when I need reminding of the true "romance" of war.

Anyways, it was more about Robert Ford and less about Jesse James. The characters were engaging and the story was interesting. Jesse was not painted as modern "Robin Hood" nether was Ford painted as the shady assassin.