Living in the Past

I spent the weekend living in the past.  

Saturday was our muzzleloading club's monthly shoot.  Below is an example of what happens when you load 50 or so grains of black powder in a steel tube, wrap a lead round ball in a piece of cloth and ram it down -- then you set it all off with a flint or percussion cap.  BOOM!  Lots of fun.

Sunday, Suzanne and I headed to Rockport, Indiana and the Lincoln Pioneer Village where we volunteer to step back in time a few times a year.  Among other things, taught a few kids how to start fire with flint and steel. 

The image below is from a past year:  cooking breakfast over an open fire.  

Now back to modern times.

Carpe diem Life,
David Kuhn