altad jeepsta 2009

Owen & Putnam & Orionids Meteors

R and T invited us and a bunch of friends and family out to their woods to watch the Orionid Meteor Showers. We got a demonstration by a Connor Prairie volunteer on stripping sassafras bark with a draw knife. Luckily we had good rain before this weekend, so R and T could light up one massive bonfire. Some students were shooting a video so everybody got into the act of firehandling. Many meteors were viewed by the hearty folk who stayed up until 4am.

Included in these photos is a long in the tooth privy, in which reflects in no way the quality of R and T's Crapperbarrel outhouse.