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ew leave a comment baltimore museum of industry baltimore is such an interesting city it has a rich history as a manufacturing center and a high society cultural mecca but you d never know that by driving through the city today we have so many unanswered questions about how baltimore fell and became the shell it is these days we ve had the museum of industry on our list for a while and were pleased to discover that the exhibits there gave us some new clues out near fort mchenry the museum houses a collection of relics from the boom days of the past we were lucky to arrive just as a docent was starting a tour of some of the major exhibits i forgot to pack my camera and had to rely on the phone pretty lousy photos don t you think i need the new iphone 5 they have a working conveyor belt thing from an old cannery and a giant pressure canner they have a blacksmiths shop and a machine shop when they turned the machines on we got to don protective eyewear it is really amazing to see the way these technologies developed and to hear some of the stories of why certain machines were developed this one makes couplings so firefighters from different cities can use their hoses and engines attached to local hydrants in neighboring cities this was in response to the great baltimore fire of the early 1900s where crews from philadelphia and dc came to help and couldn t use their hoses because of different sizes and had to stand there watching buildings burn they also had some working models built by journeyman machinists to pass their apprenticeships awesome copies of big machines that actually work built by hand down to tiny screws and bolts we also liked the garment factory where we learned about how the need for so many uniforms in the civil war led to innovations there including cool electric sewing knives that could cut out 600 sleeves at once we learned about how hazardous these jobs were and how few protections there were for workers the kids were especially interested in all of the child labor i think the kids enjoyed the print shop most they got to try printing a sheet on an old press and learned about moveable type sizing in points most commonly used letters the late additions of f and u to the alphabet they also got to see a linotype machine which was really cool and to print their own names on some bookmarks with a tiny press and ink roller there were some other self guided exhibits on companies and technologies that came from baltimore too including one that was quite familiar lots of interesting things about baltimore s heyday now we just need to find a museum of baltimore s decline 10 november 2012 adventuring leave a comment halloween fun clns had a fun halloween parade for all of the parents to come hear some fun songs and see all of the costumes i love the jessie costume that teacher has on all of the fairies leah s class singing mrs galloway in the foreground i had hoped to get out of trick or treating this year since our neighborhood is not really ideal with the huge high school across the street there s not much neighborly interaction but the nilsens invited us to come with them and the kids were so excited that i relented i had the inspiration to grab some of our costumes when we were in utah over the summer so we didn t have to reinvent the wheel lars was tired of taking photos it was a nice warm night and the houses over near the nilsens are not too far apart so the kids had lots of fun and i had someone interesting to talk to as we marched along 1 november 2012 grinning leave a comment monticello we had a free saturday without piano lessons and used the opportunity to drive down to thomas jefferson s home in virginia about 3 hours away it was kind of a lot of driving for a day trip glad we don t have anyone who screams in the car anymore my family visited monticello and many other historical sites on our eastern trip when i was 12 and i remember really being impressed with all of the clever inventions and the fantastic gardens i decided then that jefferson was my favorite president i must admit that my opinions about the man and his politics have become much more complicated as i ve been exposed to more history but that didn t really detract from our enjoyment of his gracious home leah had been balancing on the stones and didn t want to stop for a picture someday perhaps she ll realize that you should fake it long enough for the photo because your very good reasons for not wanting to smile will not be preserved nearly as long as the image i was enthralled by the kitchen garden i kept thinking that if rob mcfarland keeps annexing bits of his yard they ll soon have something to rival this aren t these some lovely blossoms not a shabby view as you re weeding we enjoyed walking around the grounds before our tour began off for the house tour no photos allowed the back of the house where they just removed a giant tree what they thought might endanger the house in a storm hanging out with tom it was nice to drive through that beautiful country in all of its fall glory fun day 28 october 2012 adventuring leave a comment school pictures 2012 i never know what to think about school pictures this year s are uneven here they are 25 october 2012 new 1 comment utah trip and sun valley summer symphony back when our plan was to move back to utah in july we signed sarah ella up for a music camp in idaho for the first week in august they were going to drive with my parents across the country after our obx reunion and meet up with jen s family in sun valley for the camp well with the extension of our sabbatical leaving my parents without the need to drive one of our cars back west we weren t sure how to make those plans work grandma shari convinced us that a utah trip made a lot of sense with the camp the house rental etc so we left allen in baltimore to work 100 hour weeks and the girls and i flew west first off i ve got to say how delightful it is to fly with children when none of them are babies or toddlers we weren t able to get seats all together but the big girls were helpful and responsible and made friends with the strangers sitting next to them thanks to the hadfields and olderogs and lots of shuttling by my parents and shari we were able to have some independence and see to a lot of the nagging things that needed to be done around our house and also spend some time with our dear friends we ve been missing so much these two didn t miss a beat back to their same silly ways the big kids had a blast too the mcf s introduced us to a new ipad app called video star which provided hours of entertainment here is a sample of the work we had lots of fun with so many friends but i was lame about taking pictures so you ll just have to take my word for it that we sure do like all of our utah friends and are so glad they took time to play with us while we were there sarah was excited to see all of her cas friends so we headed out to garden club the teachers weren t there so the kids just played for a while before coming over to our house to hang out while i did some work there we stayed at grandma b s house so we got to have lots of fun there and see some family too and we got to watch lots of olympics coverage which was really fun nana opa stole sarah and ella in the middle of our trip to go to sun valley they always start the week off at the utah festival opera in logan where they all had a great time seeing the musicals and enjoying nostalgic logan things my grandma lived there and we spent many summers there with her an outdoor market there then they headed up to idaho for the music camp anna was in the violin program with orchestra and chamber groups she is such a gifted musician sarah and ella were in the piano program and had a lot of fun learning some ensemble pieces and playing theory and music games they also made some fun friends i think they were glad to have each other for support this first time there here is sarah s concert piece ella got to play in an ensemble and was also invited to play a solo jen nana spend the week hiking while the kids are in classes and one day ella asked them to wait for her to join them they had a fun hike up to baker lake they got to attend some fabulous outdoor concerts in the evenings at the amphitheater and loved hanging out with the blacks there was a fun outdoor market in sun valley also once the kids got back we had the chance to go one day up to the thanksgiving point dinosaur museum unfortunately it was a special discount day so it was packed but we had fun anyway leah couldn t remember having been there before we also met the h b up at a pool in sugarhouse for a fun day of swimming and a yummy picnic lunch so glad we got to see them it was lucia s birthday so we felt especially lucky they could find some time for us have i mentioned how blessed i am in my friends it was so great to talk al length to kate and to mary ann molly arinn about all of the things going on in my life and in the world even when they can t solve all of my problems though they often do talking to thoughtful people who listen and care makes it feel like any struggle is manageable being in our home ward was also so nice i looked around the room and was filled with love for everyone there i felt so connected and part of a community i have missed that it was also so nice to see our family shari was such a fun and gracious host i fear i let her take care of us too well but we sure loved being with her i miss living nearby and also having my parents close i think i appreciated that blessing of having both grandmas 15 minutes away before but i do doubly so now in its absence it was fun to hang out with my sweet girls can you believe how fast they ve grown 25 october 2012 new leave a comment wright flyer at kitty hawk we found a cool kit to make a working model of the wright flyer in the gift shop since we were eager to try out our new knowledge about the importance of pitch roll and yaw in achieving flight we bought the kit and put it together one saturday once we got back to baltimore allen has some experience in building models and he made sure we meticulously followed the directions pretty awesome set of wings eh fearsome flyers winding things up it is powered by a huge rubber band turning the propellers leah s ready making sure everything is straight yipee it flies it had some structural challenges that prevented us from truly great flights turns out that winding a rubber band so tightly in one direction tends to skew the whole supporting structure of the plane we were glad that the orville and wilbur were able to substitue a motor 24 october 2012 grinning leave a comment older posts words to live by for a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin real life but there was always some obstacle in the way something to be gotten through first some unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid at last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life this perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness happiness is the way so treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one happiness is a journey not a destination alfred d souza recent comments cynthiagarcia31413 on amazing kids kristina on ouch smithrah on school pictures 2012 candice on obx smith reunion candiceandbryant on obx smith reunion smithrah on obx smith reunion bethany on obx smith reunion tiffanyswedemomisraeltrip on obx smith reunion recent posts amazing kids great friends thanksgiving fun treats baltimore museum of industry search for june 2026 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 may blogroll a stranger here aloha from the kongaikas cha cha charles heather s endeavors janelle s random ramblings mormon mommy wars the petrey dish the professor and ma times and seasons family a good day birdhouse in my soul changed for good das leben ist schön erika s weblog living it up operation soccer chopper pulse pun intended smith ohana the k k report words to live by make up your mind to be happy even when you don t have money even when you don t have a clear complexion even when you don t have the nobel prize some of the happiest people i know have none of these things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy why are they happy i suppose it is because they don t listen very well or they listen too well to the things their hearts tell them they glory in the beauty of the earth they glory in the rivers and the canyons and the call of the meadowlark they glory in the love of their families the stumbling steps of a toddler the wise and tender smile of the elderly they glory in honest labor they glory in the scriptures they glory in the presence of the holy ghost one thing i know for certain the time we have here goes by far too quickly don t waste any more time sitting on the bench watching life pass you by joseph b wirthlin blog stats 17 558 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