After a busy morning at Mount Vernon, we came home to hang out and relax at the house. Soon after we got home, we noticed the police at our neighbor's house.
The neighbor had been working on her fence and re-dug a post hole for the fence. While digging, she came across a small, round metal ball. Her kids dug it the rest of the way out and were walking around showing it to the neighbors when a Dad realized that it looked a whole lot like a cannon ball. After a short discussion, they called the police for help.
Sure enough, they had dug up an old, unexploded civil war cannon ball. The EOD- the explosive ordinance team- from Fairfax County came out in full explosion gear to handle it. We were all confined to our houses while they took a look. In the end, it turned out to be real, but probably not likely to blow up. Still, the bomb squad took it away to blow up somewhere safe. Virginia history right in our own neighborhood!
Love,
4Vs
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