Live Free Learn Free Blog » Powwows and Fossils <title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/themes/thirteen/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/rss/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/atom/" /> <link rel="pingback" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php" /> <style type="text/css"> </style> <link rel='archives' title='August 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='February 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/02/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/03/' /> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php?rsd" /> </head> <body> <div id="headwrapper"> <div id="header"> <h1 id="title"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog">Live Free Learn Free Blog</a></h1> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> <div class="post" id="post-94"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/11/07/powwows-and-fossils/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Powwows and Fossils">Powwows and Fossils</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> November 7th, 2005 at 7:48 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>Saturday, Kenzie, Sean, my mother and I drove down to the powwow in Austin. It’s the largest one-day powwow in North America, and Kenzie and I had been looking forward to it for a while. We watched the dancers for a long time, and Kenzie and I actually went down to the arena floor and danced for several minutes.</p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/spiky_headdress.jpg"><img width="220" height="271" border="0" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/editor/images/spiky_headdress.jpg" alt="Spiky_headdress" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/side_by_side_1.jpg"><img width="220" height="215" border="0" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/editor/images/side_by_side_1.jpg" alt="Side_by_side_1" /></a></p> <p>Then, we ventured out into the vendor area where there was fry bread, roasted corn on the cob, and hundreds of craft booths. Here’s a photo of a mask:</p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/mask.JPG"><img width="220" height="170" border="0" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/editor/images/mask.JPG" alt="Mask" /></a></p> <p>And the man who sold my mother the calendar he’d made:</p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/man_with_calendar.jpg"><img width="220" height="248" border="0" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/editor/images/man_with_calendar.jpg" alt="Man_with_calendar" /></a></p> <p>Beaded jewelry:</p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/beaded_jewelry.jpg"><img width="220" height="85" border="0" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/editor/images/beaded_jewelry.jpg" alt="Beaded_jewelry" /></a></p> <p>And Kenzie with the basket he fell in love with:</p> <p><a href="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/kenzie_with_basket.jpg"><img width="220" height="165" border="0" src="http://livefreelearnfree.typepad.com/editor/images/kenzie_with_basket.jpg" alt="Kenzie_with_basket" /></a></p> <p>The basket found its way home with us, of course, and now it’s filled with acorns. </p> <p>Sunday, Kenzie and Terry and I went to the Fossil Fest in Round Rock. We found ourselves surrounded by prehistoric <a href="http://www.trilobites.info/">trilobites</a>, fossilized dinosaur eggs, and petrified wood. The vendors were more than happy to talk about each fossil with Kenzie and me (Terry felt bad and spent most of the trip in the car). Kenzie even got to touch an African tyrannosaurus (not Rex) tooth and a hydrosaurus egg. We ended up with polished fossilized <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/who_dung_it/">dinosaur droppings</a> from some sort of herbivore (with beautiful coloring), a piece of oviraptor eggshell, a piece of amber, a 35 million-year-old shark tooth, a trilobite, a plate from a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptodon">glyptodon</a> (giant prehistoric armadillio) shell, a small sea urchin, and a large, beautiful piece of a <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/glossary/Megalodon.shtml">megalodon</a> tooth. The megalodon tooth is our favorite, by far. Very cool. We’ve spent hours looking at them and discussing them. Kenzie’s decided this is just the beginning of his fossil collection….</p> </div> </div>  <h3 id="comments">7 Comments</h3> <ol id="commentlist"> <li id="comment-37"> <h4 class="commentauthor"><a href='http://todd.quirkynomads.com' rel='external nofollow'>Todd Tyrtle</a> said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> November 11, 2005 at <a href="#comment-37" title="Permanent link to this comment">5:51 am</a> </p> <p>Looks like a great time. I haven’t been to a decent powwow since we left the US. Thanks for the reminder, though, since I just did a search and found out that there’s a huge Canadian Aboriginal Festival coming up in just a couple of weeks! </p> </li> <li id="comment-38"> <h4 class="commentauthor">Patrice said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> November 18, 2005 at <a href="#comment-38" title="Permanent link to this comment">12:15 am</a> </p> <p>How beautiful. I haven’t been to a PowWow in YEARS–well over a decade. I think the kids would love it. The more you write about Kenzie, the more I think he and my Maryjean would be the greatest of friends–Pokemon, the acorns–dang. If you ever get around to Nashville, let me know. <img src='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p> <p>Way cool about the fossil collection. Smart boy. </p> </li> <li id="comment-39"> <h4 class="commentauthor"><a href='http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juliepersons/' rel='external nofollow'>julie persons</a> said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> November 23, 2005 at <a href="#comment-39" title="Permanent link to this comment">11:59 am</a> </p> <p>OMG, your pictures are gorgeous!!!!<br /> :-) Julie </p> </li> <li id="comment-40"> <h4 class="commentauthor">lillith said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> November 25, 2005 at <a href="#comment-40" title="Permanent link to this comment">12:19 am</a> </p> <p>aw girl. looking at those kenzie photos just brought tears. the not really sad just like wow time flies kind. miss you guys alot. big old hugs! </p> </li> <li id="comment-41"> <h4 class="commentauthor"><a href='http://profile.typekey.com/LFLF-Editor/' rel='external nofollow'>Shana Ronayne Hickman</a> said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> December 2, 2005 at <a href="#comment-41" title="Permanent link to this comment">1:22 pm</a> </p> <p>Patrice, it sounds like they would really hit it off! Went through Nashville once a few years back…. It’s really beautiful around there. Hopefully, we’ll get to go again! </p> </li> <li id="comment-42"> <h4 class="commentauthor"><a href='http://profile.typekey.com/LFLF-Editor/' rel='external nofollow'>Shana Ronayne Hickman</a> said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> December 2, 2005 at <a href="#comment-42" title="Permanent link to this comment">1:23 pm</a> </p> <p>Wish I could take credit for the photos. It’s all my brother’s doing, though. <img src='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> ) He’s a photo hound. I keep thinking I should invest in a good camera and fiddle around with it for a while. (My list of things I’d like to do is growing daily!) </p> </li> <li id="comment-43"> <h4 class="commentauthor"><a href='http://profile.typekey.com/LFLF-Editor/' rel='external nofollow'>Shana Ronayne Hickman</a> said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> December 2, 2005 at <a href="#comment-43" title="Permanent link to this comment">1:32 pm</a> </p> <p>We miss you, too! Kenzie was just talking about how we need to get to CA to see you. He still says he’s gonna marry her one day. It’s just kind of a given with him - lol! </p> </li> </ol> <h3 id="postcomment">Post a Comment</h3> <form action="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <p> <input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" size="28" tabindex="1" /> <label for="author">Name (required)</label> </p> <p> <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" size="28" tabindex="2" /> <label for="email">E-mail (required)</label> </p> <p> <input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="" size="28" tabindex="3" /> <label for="url"><abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr></label> </p> <p> <textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="8" tabindex="4"></textarea> </p> <p> <input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" class="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" /> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="94" /> </p> </form> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul> <li id="meta"> <h2>Meta</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-login.php">Login</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" title="Syndicate this site using RSS">Entries <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/comments/feed/" title="The latest comments to all posts in RSS">Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="search"> <form method="get" id="searchform" action="/blog/index.php"> <p> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="submit" value="Search" /> </p> </form> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="footer"> <p> <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="Powered by Wordpress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">Powered by Wordpress</a> · Design by <a href="http://beccary.com" title="Theme designed by Beccary">Beccary</a> and <a href="http://weblogs.us" title="Theme sponsored by Weblogs.us">Weblogs.us</a> · <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional"><abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a> · <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" title="This page validates as CSS"><abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr></a> </p> </div> </div>  <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=605365; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=4; var sc_security="d224bf47"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c5.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=605365&java=0&security=d224bf47&invisible=1" alt="free stats" border="0"></a> </noscript>  </body> </html>