OVPR Fall Rendezvous – Photo Essay

OVPR Memorial Poster 

This event marks 30 years of OVPR Rendezvous.  Huzzah! 

So here are photos of the Folks of an OVPR Rendezvous.  Both OVPR members and non-members are shown.  All are fine folks.

Some Ladies of the Archery Competition

 Rita & Friend on the Way to the Range

Hootie Returning from the Range

 Shooting is a Family Sport

 OVPR Family Camp

 Rendezvous Ladies

 

There’s A New Dog Soldier in Camp – A Puppy Soldier?

 The Mountain Man & the Colonial Can Be Friends

 A Colonial Couple

 Militiaman with His Wife & Child

 

Dulcimer Dave & Mary

 Kicking Back Around the Fire

Wandering John & His Small Camp

 At Lou’s Lodge

Buffalo Woman & Her New Lodge

 Wandering John & Red at Cribbage – Red is Winning

 A Gathering with The Preacher & Dulcimer Dave

 Another Colonial Couple

Red Playing Classic Delta Blues on His Bruno Guitar

 Two Rendezvous Friends

 Mitch & Roger

 The Preacher & Buffalo Woman

Rendezvous Friends is the Best Kind of Friends

  Colonial Girls Hauling Water

 A Happy Man & Wife

 

Husband Jay & Goodwife Lara

  The Witches’  Tea Witches

 The Honorable (?) Judges of the Camp Court

 Gathering at the Spider Inn for Court

 A Miscreant Gets His Reward from a Dog Soldier

Tim the Chief of the Chicken Chefs

The Apprentice Chicken Cookers

 Cooking the Chicken

The Chicken is Served!

 A Blanket Trader & His Trade Goods

 Seams Colonials at Their Trade Tent

 Little Dan River Trader Lady

 Getting Stays Fitted by Missy Clark of Barkertown Traders

 Heather Picking Up Her Custom Order from Barkertown Traders

The Blacksmith Making Gear for Buffalo Woman

 Clay Smith Master Gunsmith from Williamsburg

 Yoke for Carrying 2 Water Buckets

I want a carry yoke in the worst way.  Unfortunately my budget has stretched that far yet.  Sigh.  :-(

Addendum:

 My Abode

At my 1st ever OVPR I had a 7x7x5 wedge, a candle lantern, a pint copper cook pot, a tin cup, a French trade knife, a twisted wire fork, a wooden spoon, a tomahawk, one set of clothes, a Hudson’s Bay blanket I’d inherited from my mother, a tin canteen, a small pillow, a bed sack filled with straw, a camp stool, 2 water buckets, a small wooden handled shovel, and a small wooden box of food.  My lodge is larger now, I’ve got a change or two of clothes, my kitchen is nicely appointed & my sleeping accommodations are more comfortable.  There’s plenty of seating for friends, so come & set a spell sometime. 

Fall Foliage & Friends – October 17

Da Urchin’s college roomie came for a week visit in mid October.  I had prior commitments for most of her time at Da Urchin’s place but was able to join them for a day.  Now the last 2 foliage seasons around Front Royal weren’t much to brag about as they were short & blandly monochromatic.  Now Da Urchin’s Roomie is from the southern edge of the Adirondacks in upstate New York & thus is no stranger to Awesome Foliage Displays.  So Virginia needed to step up to the plate & step up it surely did as it laid out one Awesome Fall Foliage around Front Royal this year.

The View to the Northeast

The View Across the Street

It was such a nice day we decided to go for a hike in the Thompson Wildlife Management Area.  Its on the other side of the ridge from Da Urchin’s house.  The Appalachian Trail runs through the WMA with various other trails branching off of the AT.  The map we had showed us a nice circuit hike we could do easily in an afternoon.

  Da Urchin & Lexi

We decided to take the dogs along.  The AT itself was narrow & kinda rocky but some of the other trails are wide sandy old dirt roads.  We were passed by 6 or 7 other hikers while on the AT section but didn’t see anyone else on the other trails at all.

 

The Foster Brittany Spaniel

Da Urchin was fostering a Brittany Spaniel & we took him along too.  He did just fine.  One section of the trail we took was spider web city.  I went ahead through that section & de-webbed things.  I haven’t been hiking like this in years, something I need to remedy.  Thanks to Da Urchin & Da Roomie!