We had a small participant in our church’s Open Music Night tonight. He played his viola so well and had a sweet little audience sitting in front of the main audience.

Well done, A!

Mere moments before Lissie took us all to the cleaners.

Clever clogs!

July 4, 1795- The Founding Fathers hide a time capsule in the cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House

1855- Workers find the capsule, clean its contents and reinter it, making their own additions.

Dec 2014- More work at the State House unearths the cache again. The contents make a visit to the MFA for cataloging and preservation.

June 17, 2015- The Wood girls make a spur of the moment visit to the State House to attend the official reinterring ceremony.

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Along with twelve hundred Free Masons and another several hundred spectators we stood at the corner of Beacon and Park streets to hear speeches from Governor Charlie Baker, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, and Grand Master of Masons Harvey Waugh. There was music from a fife and drum corps and a Navy quartet and we saw soldiers fire off three huge, and super loud, canons.

Perhaps most interestingly to me, the Masons performed the same cornerstone ceremony that Paul Revere and Samuel Adams performed at the original laying of the State House cornerstone in 1795.

The ceremony was far bigger, and far better attended, than I had expected. It was long, but not drawn out, and interesting even for the youngest among us. The masonic ceremony was new to us, the reading of the list of contents lined up with the images we had looked at before heading into the city, and the cannons just stole our hearts.

Having only heard about this event yesterday (on a LED sign above the highway, no less!) I am so glad that that we got to go. There is every expectation that this capsule will not be opened again in any of our lifetimes. It was so exciting to see it reinterred.

While I was sewing today I heard someone come into the room behind me. Imagine my surprise to find this fully grown adult woman wearing a bathrobe and Pony leggings!

How she got in I’ll never know.

Another day, another example of how quickly a skill can be learned when you are ready for it and are excited about it.

With very little help from me, but lots of studying the instruction booklet that came with the kit, she taught herself the fine art of cross stitch and worked diligently on it over the past day or so.

If only we could harness the energy of proud, learning children!

Paper dolls after dinner.

Actual conversation from today:

C: Do you think this is an appropriate show for me to watch?

M: I think it’s okay. Was there something about it that made you feel like it might not be appropriate?

C: I’d say it’s about 50% okay and 50% maybe not.

M: Oh. Which parts are maybe not okay?

C: We’ll… there’s a lot of \*bang\* \*slam\* \*pow\* [with accompanying body motions]

This little one has a much better sense of her own presence than I have skills in photography.

There are worse places to spend a morning in the company of friends.