@WV511 Just ended up taking us an hour from Winchester to near Hedgesville. We went through Gerradstown / Arden-Nollville, and it was getting packed with 18-wheelers!
The writing is going well, thanks for asking. 😂
I’m simultaneously formatting one ms for publication and researching/outlining my next book. It’s a lot! But ’sall good.
😑 Went into store for one thing. Came out with $200 worth of things. Came home and unloaded $200 worth of things. THEN remembered I forgot the one thing. Not going back to store!
@TeaRoseKent Why do I think Queen Elizabeth I used charcoal — unsuccessfully because she ate too many sweets and her teeth rotted out?
I don’t know if the QEI/charcoal thing is true.
The Newcomer House (Rt. 34, north of the National Cemetery) saw the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) in September 1862. Today, I attended a ranger-led program about action on the ridges, slopes, and gulley just south of the home. Reenactors demonstrated a Union skirmish approach.
Dang. Sorry y’all died of dysentery on the Oregon Trail! 😂
And the person who died of a rattlesnake bite was probably going to die of dysentery eventually. 🤷♀️
@theBookDevourer I’m sure somewhere in America has these, but I’ve never seen one until now AND I AM SALIVATING (and trying to ignore every health rule that says this is bad for me, 😂).