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what a lovely weekend!!

the trip down went ok, traffic was sticky but I had a new book on tape so it was all good :). stopped for a raspberry smoothie at burgerville, and got to site about 5 hrs after I left home.

setup was smooth and easy... one of our new posse members found us a primo spot and we shoehorned ourselves in nicely. there was a bit of shade, and lots of breeze and flush biffies and water right over THERE. perfect!

finally went to bed around midnight, mostly because I kept chatting at folks :). our prime real estate meant everyone who wanted to use real bathrooms walked by. yay! so even though we were as far as you could get from the eric, etc, we never really felt isolated. awesome :)

8am peerage meetings are early. just sayin'. but they were ok. what could have been BigDrama turned into fairly minor drama because frankly? our council is full of grownups. say what you will, we got some awesome leaderhip among our ranks. even when we dont agree, its civil. God permit that it stays that way.

after peerage meetings, I went back to camp where happy campmates had set aside a plate of bacon and oatmeal for me :). if you take cold oatmeal (ew!) and mix turbinado, toasted almonds, dried cherries and half and half? tada! pudding! yum!!! and bacon? who can say anything bad about bacon?

did a bit of shopping with folks (bought an awesome straw hat, and now have the perennial problem of how to get it to stay on my head) and then back to camp. I must admit I missed almost all of both courts and coronations becuase of severe nap attacks. I was nudged awake once to get dressed :) and made it to court in enough time to accept a nice award from TRM (the Order of the Lance de la Lion, which is for service and excellence in equestrian arts. they even painted the horse on it to be chestnut like my Raji), then back to camp to start dinner.

yes, it was hot, but my new flemish outfit kept me comfortable more or less the whole day. bodes well for Pennsic!!

we cooked up a storm on the cute brazier that

gwen_the_potter loaned us. we made ramekins of cheese which was inhaled by hungy campers, followed by an asiago stuffed pork roast (Epilario, IIRC? its Eduardos recipe), snap peas with bacon (le Menagier), pasta with cheese (English 14thc) and yummy little fruit pies (mmm. strawberry rhubarb!!!!) we even managed to do most of the dishes before it got dark :)

Sat night was mostly me, sitting by the fire, (must remember not to let tall dapper hubby put a log on right before he wants to leave...) so I missed all kinds of things I was kinda hoping to see, but oh well. I still managed to catch up with old friends who were tehre for Sarahs elevation, and general socialization :)

Sunday morning I got to sleep in!!! then started the painful pack out process. Managed to make piles of stuff to go to Pennsic, and stuff to go in my car, and stuff to go in gothy apprentice boys car. was ready to go by noon, and my pennsic stuff was finally carted away at 4pm. got to hang in the shade with A, and that was nice :) but it was too late to go to the barn and get any riding in :(

traffic was a bugaboo, as youv'e no doubt heard, so by Olyway I was DONE. took a break and went to dinner with C at the Casino (all you can eat seafood!!) then on the road by 10pm, by which time there was no traffic to speak of. hah!

it was a lovely weekend. I got to hang with peeps, have a pretty period camp, and cook and nap and actually have real conversations with people. it is becoming painfully obvious to me that horses in the SCA are prohibitive to my favorite actitivies.

need to do some pondering on that.

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congrats!! glad you had a nice event - loved the pics that Talon took of you!

Sorry you didn't get to play with horsies this event : (

I hateses sites that preclude some types of fun....no archery and no horseies is poopey

And I am so glad we could pry you away for your award! YAY! Well deserved and double fun that the cute little red-headed aprentice did tha charter!

the fun I had? wouldnt have happened if there had been horsies.

so its all good :)

it may be that the way I do horses and the way I do SCA cant co-exhist.... as I said, I gots me some pondering to do....

Gotcha : )

Happy pondering hon! I was lovely to see you even briefly

PS thank you very much for the award :). I was really touched (and in a good way. not the way Kate was touching Sean Sat night....) ;)

LOL Kate is now Captain Badtouch!

And you are very welcome - we were flabbergasted that did not have it already and giddy that that meant we got to do it! It comes with great love and respect too and HORSIES!

indeed :)

I loved the idea of the award when it was conceived (regardless of what they called it ;)) and am flattered and touched that you feel I have served the community in such a way :)

and extra bonus that my apprentice did the charter!!

PS, after the fact, I dont know if I told you but you two did a GOOD JOB. no, really. you made people feel listened to and appreciated. and thats' a rare rare thing when rulers are spread so thin.

good on you :)

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We tried VERY hard to make ourselves everyones monarch not just that of a select few and to represent and protect everyones fun cause ALL the fun matters.

That means a great deal coming from you dear - thank you for saying so.

The cheese and pork and peas were yum. I'll have to do that peas recipe, it was easy and tasty, not just your run of the mill peas. But with bacon, how can you lose?

Congratulation!! I wish I had gotten to see you more, or made it over at least once to check out what you were playing with. I missed all the foodie fun this weekend. :(

By the time I was done with court on Saturday I wanted so badly to go find people and hang out but I just ran out of steam.

I came to the conclusion a long time ago that there were certain things (horses, sailing) that in order to have them in my life, I had to forgo just about all the rest of my hobbies. If I was filthy rich, I could afford to have someone else take care of a boat and/or a horse and just get to do the fun parts, but the way things are, I just occasionally get to play on/with other people's horses and boats.

I was there when you got your award; hiding in back with the other archers. :) Congratulations!

thank you! it was a big suprise :)

I never got a chance to say Congrats! So,,, congrats! :)
In fact, I never got a chance to visit with you at all. Too busy watching/interfering with the Captain Badtouch scenario ;)

Autumn War??

no autumn war for me...I'm going to Pennsic! then no more sca events for August until Sept Crown, I need to catch up with my horse and housework :)

but we'll see each other at Sept crown, unless you happen to come down for a fighter practice in August?

Ah, I forgot about Pennsic! I would go if I could :(
Have plenty'o fun, and we will see you at Crown!

I was exceedingly bummed that we didn't get to spend any time at all at this event, but I had a camp full of old pals from far, far away, and we camped together 2 weeks ago, and we'll camp together again at Pennsic, so I figured you weren't likely to pine away for want of my company.

But I missed Kate molesting Sean?! Damn.

I actually tried to find you guys at one point but the pull of the Rug Of Napping was too strong so I gave up and toddled home....

bummer! I was hoping to meet everyone in your camp!

but as you say, its not like we wont get to spend wayyyyyy too much quality time together in a couple weeks :)