Day off the boat

 The Farmer’s Market was a hit!  I found some great fruits and veggies and a few things Santa thought I should get.  Eric, our favorite boat guy came down to check things out real quick to make we can take the boat out tomorrow for a “3 hour tour “. It’s been so long since we have had the big rumbler going, it will be music to our ears.  There is a Revolutionary War Museum in Yorktown and we decided to take a look.  We walked through the inside presentations, watched some videos, read the timelines and biographies of the influential people that made such a difference in our American history.  We went outside to walk through the gardens.  I always find that fascinating! There were the usual plants but today, I’ve never seen before, a peanut plant….with peanuts attached to the root system, soooo very cool.  There were demonstrations going on that we stopped to listen to.  One was an example of how they made flax plants into fibers for clothing, they “combed” it out and it was a light color, sort of yellow or cream colored,   Back then there was no such thing as blonde, but hair was known as “flaxen hair”.  Some of this stuff was so fascinating!  When we were done we went to lunch  at Scoots BBQ in Gloucester, oh my, maybe the BBQ we’ve had. We even bought some of their BBQ sauce to take home, $8 for a quart,  bargain  of the year. Next stop was Wallyworld then Costco, not much entertainment value there but just some necessities we needed.  We had a great day. Tomorrow is boat washing day and then we’re going to take her out for a little spin.

Tadpoles in the rainwater barrel that was used for watering the garden.

1 of 3 garden plots.

Words of Wisdom.

Cannons that are fired every Day at 4:45.

Peanut plants, finally figured out what all these fields are growing.

Tobacco plants.

Farmer’s Market.

The big orange moon tonight.

This is the peanut plant with the peanuts on the roots.  How cool is that!

More peanut pictures🤪

The food safety demonstration.

Brown cotton plant.  Never heard of that one.

The cannons they fire.

Corn in the garden.

Chickens running wild.

Cannon.


Troops tents.  There were 5-6 men per tent and there was room for only 3 of them really, don’t know how they managed that!


 BBQ lunch,  brisket  and ribs , so good!

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