Pacific Northwest Gardening: Dragonfly June 7, 2008, 1 by neofarmer

neofarmer wrote:
As do I you. Pain is a gift that forces us beyond of ourselves, makes us less like who we would be without it, and more like who we should be, to be of any use at all to our fellow man.

Here are a couple of more shots from the civil war reenactment. I had some pleasant conversations with some of the families, everyone involved in trying to understand a lifestyle without electricity, and no video games!

Here is a family washing each others hair, the youngest ones fetching, heating, and dumping out the dirty water. They even offered to do mine because I was having so much fun watching them. I passed because I didn't want to get chilled. Fibromyalgia hurts more when you shiver! :)