A Bit of Leominster HIstory

I was working on a geocaching puzzle cache today, and stopped by this monument in Leominster. I had never heard of it, and it was interesting to learn more about the history of our city and how citizens contributed to the movement of escaped slaves. Massachusetts has so many historical markers and plaques around that we sort of take them for granted. But it's interesting to stop and take in a bit of history, and think about the people that walked the streets you are walking now.


This article from the Worcester Telegram tells more about the house and the family.

Where has she been?

It's been a bit since I've posted, mostly because life got crazy and I didn't have enough down time to post. Over the last week, I've:

Gone to a two-day conference in Washington DC for National Science Foundation SBIR Grantees. While I was there, I did manage to do a little sightseeing.


I also managed to do some geocaching in DC, which is very different than the woods caches you mostly find up here. The caches I found in DC and Virginia are either urban caches, or virtual caches, where you have to email the owner answers that you can find at the site. I felt like a secret agent pulling out some of these teeny caches.


Back Friday night from DC and up early Saturday morning for Perrin's Pinewood Derby! His "Sword of Omens" car (totally his idea, seriously), won second place in his pack and an invitation to the District race next month.



Then on Sunday after church, we decided to take advantage of the great weather and did some family geocaching at a local site that we hadn't been to yet. We had a super day, going 9/9 on finds!


So that's where I've been. I actually have a couple of projects I plan on posting later this week if I can ever get pictures taken. Too busy making memories to preserve memories last week. :)

Dream

A little card I put together for a teenage girl using scraps. I had assembled several of those large flowers for another project and this one was a leftover. I think there's My Mind's Eye, Graphic 45, and Basic Grey paper, and the "Dream" word piece is from My Mind's Eye. Small flowers I think are Prima, and bling is Recollections from Michael's.

Winter Wonderland

So, we haven't had much more of a dusting of snow since the big storm back in October, so as soon as the calendar ticked over to March, Mother Nature decided it had been long enough. This is the view out my front door a few hours ago, although it pretty much still looks the same now, although I think it has finally stopped snowing. The kids had a snow day, which means I'm ready to tear my hair out, and they only spent about 30 minutes outside.

And....here's the backyard. I'm hoping no trees come down, but that's unlikely as most of the loose and weak trees and branches came down in the fall.