The timeline event at Aukerman Creek this past weekend (October 1 & 2, 2010) was nice and relaxing, as you can see by this photo of Gary Shaw.

Gary is proud of our improvised windbreak.

It was cold and rainy on Saturday, but just a bit cold on Sunday–and when you’re wearing lots of wool, cold is not bad–rainy is bad.  But we had a fly to keep dry and plenty of time for Euchre.

No Federals showed up, which kind of hampered our itching for burning powder.  But, since it was a timeline event, we just chose to shoot at different enemies.  The Indian Creek Regulators, which our captain was with this weekend–instead of us–and they gave us some fun–I think the captain’s still a little sore from his Euchre whuppin’ at Jackson, MI, so he’s probably looking for any excuse he can to shoot me.  The Nazi also played a bit–I don’t think he had a side–he seemed to only shoot from the winning side.  We finished the weekend with members of the 27th Virginia–most of them (about 4) playing horse-thieves or something while the three of us from the 1st Tennessee fell in under their captain and gunned them down.

It wasn’t a weekend to take all that seriously, but we were able to provide some education to the public as well as have some relaxing fun.  Hopefully next year we’ll see a bigger turnout–at least some Federals–and we can get a big shoot-out going.