The Holiday Season

Christmas season is the hardest time to be deployed. I love to decorate the house and the tree with my little ones and my
Bride. I enjoy staying up late, sitting in front of the fireplace and just enjoying my Brides company. Out here December is just another month, a hot, humid, muddy month at that. I know after I make it through the holiday season it is all down hill. It is just hard to be gone during this time of year.

Back home I would be getting ready for Christmas in the Field at Endview Plantation. This is one of my favorite reenactments. The goal is to represent troops in winter garrison during the peninsular Campaign of 1862. We do reenact skirmishes but they are essentially "the battle of fort generic". The best part of the event is sitting around the camp chatting with my messmates. Sgt Rick usually sets a big kettle of mulled apple cider on fire and somebody always has the fixin's for a cobbler. It is a very relaxing time and the last event of the reenactment season for the Lone Star Rifles. The one drawback is that it is usually pretty darn cold. (Note to self: Shoot Yankee, take his overcoat)

TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD