Crusades:
I had a blast at Crusades. Got to work in the morning with Ella
and Ilse and others at the MoL table. It was so cute the fighters
who lumbered directly up from the cabins that we had to direct to the
other side of the table for armored combat sign in. You try
saying
Facing the Field You're Fighting On five times
fast. Most folks were nice and pie signing in. Only a few
Easterners with problems, two expired cards. I made a minor goof
with having young waterbearers sign in, but other than that, not so
bad. Ella was also a champ and provided slug sandwiches of
turkey, roast beef, and other nummy stuff. And Ilse provided
buckeyes and the oddly addictive chai covered almonds from Trader
Joe's, or something. Once things settled down, I went on
walkabout to see the A&S, visit with a few folks, sign the Gyrth
card, and then hijack it and take it about the event some for others to
sign. Glad the card was well received by Their Graces. Then
was the shopping. Oh, fabric. Bought fabric. Not that
I need more fabric, but fabric followed me home. Besides, good
wool is so hard to find online. I checked back to the table a
couple of times, but I find it hard to reconcile sitting at a table all
day when there is nothing to track on the off chance that there are
late authorizations. We were bums and decided not to stick
around for a late court since we daytripped and I had several pounds of
ribs and salmon waiting for us at home. I hope we weren't too
missed at Court. I'm sure TRM are not only fabulous, but
forgiving as well. ;) Heck, I'm sure no one even noticed.
Dinner:
And the 4 pounds of salmon, and the 5 pounds of ribs beckoned us
homeward. My sweet Alan was tired, so I drove the truck home, and
got us there in good time. Luckily Thjora Dogsittersdottir was at
the house and had started the ribs, so we slowly got changed and
working on dinner. Ella and Evja were funny with the roasting of
the potatoes. We almost forgot to make the salmon, which was
great for leftovers last night. So we had a Caesar salad for
starters and then Corby's dry rub ribs, with roasted rosemary red
potatoes, steamed and cheesed asparagus, and walnut crusted salmon for
dinner. We did fit 9 folks around the dinner table, which was a
bit more comfortable than the 11 from Friday night's Alyce and Freddy
catering service. Mmm... still have left over BBQ chicken and
pork from that. Finally we worked more on Ella's superb pear pie
and cheesecake for dessert. And then Mr. Food Coma came for a
visit and we all sought the lowest gravity in the living room and
stared at the fish tank until the sleep vibes overtook us and only the
fear of waking up to a cold puppy nose on toes gave us the last gasp to
go to bed.
Sunday:
dawned.
yep, it did.
We had breakfast of chicken and apple sausages and scrambled cheesy
eggs, and a lovely sit down meal. Then Bob, Roland, and Alyce
came over to fight with Thjora and Aedan in the backyard, so Thjora
wasn't completely deprived of fighting for the weekend. I think
there was also some Evja spear time, Roland and Corby Polearm stuff,
and other random SCA martial arts around the pond. We also got
the dulcet tones of the AoD on her mandolin. I made a double
batch of brownies (from a box, hello, it's me!) which folks scarfed up
before they were done. Thjora was the wise one who combined fudge
brownie with mint chocolate chip ice cream. I tried that last
night, it was lovely! When we got folks on the road, Gen napped
and Alan went to get fish. Then we watched the new cute fish get
acclimated, and then ordered Outback takeaway for dinner and watched a
movie on TV. Mona Lisa Smile. sigh. I was foolishly
hoping for more laughs. Way too much drama, phooey ending.
Should have just popped in a DVD, but oh well.
Fish:
So, I have discovered a new form of geekiness. Fish
Geeking. Alan and David got to fish geek on Thursday night, and
again last night when he dropped off regalia decorations from the
Crusades hall. Alan used his AWS day off to move the fish from
the 65 to the now 90 gallon tank in the living room. So far the
angelfish and cardinal tetras seems to get along with the rainbow fish
and tiger barbs. We were a little worried about the nippiness of
the Tiger barbs, but they seem to be keeping their distance from the
stand-offish angelfish for now. So with the 65 gal tank free of
fish, the cichlid tank plan went into effect. Alan tore down the
65 and moved it to the basement and set it up with pretty rocks and few
plants for the new fish,
cichlids.
Note, not chiclets. The new fish were added and are so
cute! There are orange fish, blue fish, spotty fish, stripey fish
(both horizontal and vertical stripey) and even a plaid fish or
two. yay, fish. It also gives us an odd glowing light in
the corner of the space bar where the dalek used to live. Hey,
anyone want a
dalek?
Negotiate price with Bob. You must pick up.
Misc:
We had our first play of the season last Wed.
Macbeth.
Not bad, but not the best in the whole wide world either. Loved
the witches. Those witches were the best. Really liked the
costumes for easy transformation from normal looking ladies to bizarre
hags. Kymber thinks I need one of those outfits. I did
really like the costumes in their tone on tone decoration and
constructions and stuff. Zippers I can ignore and allow for quick
backstage changes. Although I confess that part of my brain was
trying to figure out the construction of the costumes and lost parts of
the dialog of the play. eh.
So, yay office, boo play, yay fish, boo movie, yay food, boo sleep, yay
crusades... you get the idea... :)
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