A belated Happy Christmas to everyone we know and love!

Trip to a Fort and Pioneer Museum

This week we went to Fort Martin Scott. It was very windy, but the kids enjoyed exploring the old buildings and reading about the old fort which was more like at outpost. With lots of old log cabins where the soldiers used to stay.

Here is Alan and Jade on the ruins of one of the buildings. It was quite interesting how they established the fort and survived out in the wilderness on the frontier.

On the same day we also went to the pioneer museum in Fredericksburg. They had many old buildings and neat displays. They had an old fashioned one room school house which the kids stayed at for quite a while, as it looked like something right out "Little house on the Prairie".

Here is Kenny and Ashley next to a display of a cowhide frontier men's outfit. They had a lot of interesting stuff about life in rural Texas in the late 1800.

More interesting things that Kenny found.

This was a little cabin that was "found" in the middle of a much larger old house. Apparently they had built on to it and added rooms until the original cabin was "lost" and only when they tore down the house did they find the old cabin in the middle of the old house. So they restored it. They kids thought that was pretty cool.

LBJ Ranch and Museum Visit

We took the kids to the Lyndon B Johnson state park last week. They had a great time! The park features the LBJ ranch and nice picnic areas and a living history farm. All for free. Here is a pic of the kids next to some of the cars that Lyndon B. Johnson used to drive when he was president. http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lyndon_b_johnson/

Here is a picture of the farm. Everything was as authentic as they could make it and was exactly as an early 1900 fully functional farm would have been in rural Texas. Water was pumped by a windmill, they grew, butchered and cooked all their own food on a wood stove. etc. They didn't have any electricity or gas.

Here we are with one of the volunteers who worked there in time period clothing.

Here is the lady giving an explanation on how they preserved the things they grow on the farm.

Here is an old fashioned milk separator

The kids collected the eggs from the hen house, which they though was really cool. Over all they had alot of fun at the LBJ park and ranch. There was alot they saw that we didn't get to record but at least these are the high lights.