A Day in Lexington

February 27th, 2008

The Willi are indeed moving to Tennessee, but we cannot leave our temporary home in Virginia without seeing some of the state’s prominent and historic sights! We have planned and scheduled many a field trip for the next few weeks, and our first stop? Lexington!

I don’t know about you, but I’m fascinated with history, even though half the time I cannot remember dates and names (I try folks…I try), so a day spent in Lexington with my family is not only an opportune learning experience, but fun!

So…

…yesterday morning, after all morning preparations were made, all six of us piled into our beloved mini van ‘Homer’ and set out on a little adventure.

Unfortunately, it rained the entire afternoon, but we were armed with windbreakers or hats, so a little water didn’t stop us from enjoying ourselves. :-)

Let me see, we learned about the earlier life of Stonewall Jackson and toured his house, saw General Lee’s grave, Washing and Lee University, the VMI, a George Marshall museum and…well, take a look at the pictures; they pretty much tell the story!

Did you know that Thomas Jackson was very concerned with his health and took great cares as to what foods he consumed? Perhaps he’s a fellow vegetarian/vegan! So we’re not the only ones with a strange diet after all. :-)

-Kasie

P.S. Sorry about the non-existing thumbnails. We’re ‘experiencing technical difficulties’ with that currently. For the moment, click on the first picture and scroll through the rest by clicking the ‘next’ arrow.

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  • Andrew Higginbotham

    February 27, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    Are y’all vegetarian/vegan? Or is it a temporary thing? I love the pictures! Grand photos of VMI! What more can I say? Love so many of the pictures!

  • Andrew Higginbotham

    February 27, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    Ha first to comment!

  • Nate

    February 27, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    Second! Looks like fun. We were able to visit Lexington several years ago. Beautiful town.

  • violinman

    February 27, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    hmm, none of the pics show up, annoying

  • Walter

    February 27, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    @violinman

    “Sorry about the non-existing thumbnails. We’re ‘experiencing technical difficulties’ with that currently.”

  • Andrew Higginbotham

    February 27, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    Violinman,

    I can see your picture! It is working!

  • Kasie

    February 27, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    Sir Valiant,

    Yes, we’re all vegetarians and vegans. It’s not a temporary thing; we’ve been doing this for nine or eight years now! (I think) I’ve actually had no experience cooking with meat, but I really enjoy experimenting with fun and different ways to make vegan foods tasty and appetizing. We’re not super strict though; we occasionally eat pizza, or if at a party/potluck eat a dish with cheese or eggs.

  • Kasie

    February 27, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    Hmm, I need to find a new avatar for myself…

  • Aunt Frances

    February 27, 2008 at 10:53 pm

    I like the look of technical difficulties with the thumbnails. They look like little banners with quotes or descriptions on them….

    like magnetic poetry!

    It gives the viewer a chance to imagine what the photo is going to look like and then to click and see if they’re right. :-D

    I can make a game out of anything. Speaking of games, R.J. beat me at Doodle Dice…..twice. :-(

  • Aunt Frances

    February 27, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    Hmmm, I didn’t predict too accurately. ;-)

    It’s nice to see your mom in some photos now that you’ve all become photographers.

    “Is that girl bored or something?” made me laugh out loud.

    For real. :-D

  • Esther

    February 27, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    Never fear Esther is here commenting finally! I bet you all paniced when you found i hadnt commented first! well the universe is still aligned properly lol i was out! so there! any way Grand pictures very cool stuff! but i strongly dislike anything educational SPECIALLY historical! yes i give homeschoolers a bad name i know! lol

  • Andrew Higginbotham

    February 28, 2008 at 7:41 am

    Kasie,

    Why are y’all vegetarian/vegan? (BTW from what you said it sounds like you are not vegan… (vegans will not use leather or any thing to do with the killing of an animal)
    Just on a vegetarian diet.)
    Esther,

    Why not try to like historical things? The Bible is full of them! I believe that history is important because we need to remember what God has done in the past!

    Andrew

  • Aunt Frances

    February 28, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Mr. Higginbotham makes a good point. Vegans do not use ANY animals products, ever. That includes honey because taking the honey exploits bees. Vegans are hardcore and don’t even wear wool. The sheer weight of trying to be vegan is too much for me.

    *grins sheepishly*
    :-D

  • Aunt Frances

    February 28, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Get it, shear/sheer?

    *groan*

    I double commented. Is that verboten?

  • Kasie

    February 28, 2008 at 8:23 am

    You’re right Aunt Frances! They do look like magnetic poetry! Glad you’re having fun with it. Tell R.J. to keep up with those doodle dices, and Nikki to practice Spit – I plan on a few tournaments when they finally get down here!

    I agree Sir Valiant. That’s one reason I do like learning about history; to remember what God has done in the past.

    I’ve never heard that about vegans before. I thought vegans were vegetarians, but they don’t eat dairy or dairy products, eggs, or milk. That’s pretty much what we do. Well, I guess we just created a new version of vegans!
    But anyway, we’re vegetarians for health reasons. We mostly follow the Hallelujah Diet (by George Malkmus), juice carrots, drink our barleygreen, and all that good stuff. :-) There have been several reports and stories of people who were battling cancer, but after a switch to the Hallelujah Diet, the cancer was gone! (after some months of eating this way first, of course)

  • Esther

    February 28, 2008 at 8:34 am

    Very true Andrew! Very true indeed. i really have no excuse do i?

  • Walter

    February 28, 2008 at 8:41 am

    Have no fear, Esther. We’re cooking something up here on the blog that will have all you guys learning some little known (but very cool) history!

    Mua ha hah hah ha…… :)

  • Angie

    February 28, 2008 at 9:15 am

    Just to clarify (KC mentioned it) we eat a plant-based diet for health reasons ONLY! We’re not one of those envirenmental/animal rights people. ;-) Hunt as much as you like.

    For my school a couple years ago, Mom had me read The China Study, by Dr. Colin Campell. Quite an eye-opener! His research confirms that the killer diseases in US are directly linked to diet.

  • Angie

    February 28, 2008 at 9:16 am

    Oh, and just so you know I’m not meaning to start a whole debate. Those things have a habit of getting started!

  • violinman

    February 28, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Actually, I was talking about the other pics on the post, With them having the little red x on, I thought that that meant they were blocked by Mcaffe (annoying program)lol.

  • Esther

    February 28, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Ah very Grand Walter now i REALLY dont have an excuse!

  • Walter

    February 28, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    OK, we have some thumbnails now (manually added). I’ll have to contact the author(s) of our picture plugin program, and see what we can do to fix the problem. I know why it’s happening, just can’t figure out how to fix it…

  • Justice

    February 28, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    hey Kasie! Those are really great pictures! That is a funny picture of walter standing near the statues.!
    g2g!
    Bye

  • Mr. Darcy

    February 28, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    Yeah, you’re all crazy. Nuts. Crackers. Speaking of which, what are crackers without cheese?? What are lettuce and tomatto without bacon??? What is a milkshake without milk? Ok, yeah yeah it’s silk milk and rice dream, I know, fine. The point is that everytime I eat a burger or smack down some sweet non-nutritional sugar-filled goodness, I shed a bitter tear for you. I really do. Poor things. *sniff* See, now you’ve got me cryin again. I do hate that killing animals is involved in being a carnivore, I shed some tears for the bunnies too, but hey. They taste so good. I love bunnies. Yum.

  • Andrew Higginbotham

    February 28, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    Well on the diet note… We do not eat a “typical American diet” Our beef is grass fed, Hormone free, all natural, Raised by a local Christian Homeschooling farmer. We also get chicken all natural chicken from the same farmer! We get our milk straight from the cow from another Christian homeschooling farmer (Nothing is done to it). Our eggs come from the same farm where we get the milk… So you start to get the picture? LOL We have a natural foods company ship food to us every two months…(It comes direct in a semi)… We attempt not to eat out… That is about it… Questions? LOL

  • Aunt Frances

    February 28, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    The thumbnails are here! The thumbnails are here!

    Mr. Darcy, you are a consummate carnivore. Your empathy for your fellow vegetarian is commendable. Carrion…ahem, I mean carry on, good sir.
    :-D

  • Angie

    February 28, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    Carrion… now that’s a groaner

  • Esther

    February 29, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Wow you people and Mr Darcy I secound that! lol

  • Mr. Darcy

    February 29, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    Hahahaha, carrion, I like that.

  • Andrew Higginbotham

    March 4, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    I just saw a Punch Buggy Cream car in our neck of the woods! LOL

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