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General update
Nov. 9th, 2009 02:19 pmDecent weather over the weekend. Since there was a coming of age rite of passage happening here at the farm Saturday (and into Sunday morning), this was a good thing. Slogging about on the hill in rain wouldn't have been quite as pleasant. Although rites of passage do have their challenges...
Before that on Friday, Fitzw and I managed to pick up some extra syrup from a nearby fellow maple syrup producer, and some maple cream containers from another farm, and then stopped in at Wandering Moon to chat with Aelfdis (Laura) and see what new things they had. I got a lovely little pendant there, and we picked out some books on working with stone (walkways, bridges, walls, buildings) and one on some woodworking techniques.
Wandering Moon is a store in Shelburne Falls, MA. The owners, Laura and David R, started merchanting in the SCA, then eventually got a store in Shelburne Falls. Unfortunately they can't really make it to events anymore, so we try to go see them now and again and visit. David sometimes comes here to the farm to get hay. They have goats and chickens, and Laura makes goat cheese and also some lovely soaps. She is still working in metal and makes some of the jewelry they sell at the store. The store started out selling a lot of medieval, renaissance items (reproductions) as well as things inspired by the original art of those times. They still do, although they stopped selling swords after a break-in a few years back. They also sell books on useful things -- how-to's and informational books on gardening, hiking, building, tools, etc. Quite a long ways from blanket merchants at Pennsic!
Saturday morning we managed to get to North Andover, to the sale at the Museum of Printing. Found some type we wanted and became members as well. Made it back in time for Fitzw to finish putting things together for rite (with some help from me of course, finding things). Then off the men went their way, and off we women went another. They did whatever they did, and I and my friends stayed up waaay too late talking :D
Sunday was the grove's study group meeting, and then Fitzw and I went off to choral practice. It was a little rough this week, but we still made progress on one of the new songs.
Oh also, I have a new computer. Got it last week, and I'm working on it right now. Still have some work to do with figuring out what's going where, as I may be leaving some things on the old computer and we'll just network everything. Unfortunately the old PC just couldn't keep up with all the new software and was getting too slow to work on. Once we move some things over to the new PC, we can probably get the old one working properly again.
I have to get new email software. Um actually, we downloaded some but I haven't looked at it. Bother. Maybe I'll fire up the old PC later today and see what's come in over the past few days...
Oh, the PC is an HP. p6230y. It's really quite nice. The keyboard is taking a little getting used to, but not too bad. I have a flat monitor now, which is 20" wide. This will be handy for doing web site work, so I can have the site in one window side-by-side with the window where I'll be working on the nuts and bolts (HP 2009m). And it was a package deal, so I have a new printer as well. We think the ink for that is cheaper than for my good printer, so I don't mind having it. Overall, I now have better performance, a computer that will have enough space for me for some time to come, and the setup uses less energy than my old setup. My primary way of saving energy with the old PC and monitor was leaving them off; the equipment is 10 years old, so it really probably was time to get a new PC. I can leave the old one off except when I need something off of it, so it's a net gain.
Before that on Friday, Fitzw and I managed to pick up some extra syrup from a nearby fellow maple syrup producer, and some maple cream containers from another farm, and then stopped in at Wandering Moon to chat with Aelfdis (Laura) and see what new things they had. I got a lovely little pendant there, and we picked out some books on working with stone (walkways, bridges, walls, buildings) and one on some woodworking techniques.
Wandering Moon is a store in Shelburne Falls, MA. The owners, Laura and David R, started merchanting in the SCA, then eventually got a store in Shelburne Falls. Unfortunately they can't really make it to events anymore, so we try to go see them now and again and visit. David sometimes comes here to the farm to get hay. They have goats and chickens, and Laura makes goat cheese and also some lovely soaps. She is still working in metal and makes some of the jewelry they sell at the store. The store started out selling a lot of medieval, renaissance items (reproductions) as well as things inspired by the original art of those times. They still do, although they stopped selling swords after a break-in a few years back. They also sell books on useful things -- how-to's and informational books on gardening, hiking, building, tools, etc. Quite a long ways from blanket merchants at Pennsic!
Saturday morning we managed to get to North Andover, to the sale at the Museum of Printing. Found some type we wanted and became members as well. Made it back in time for Fitzw to finish putting things together for rite (with some help from me of course, finding things). Then off the men went their way, and off we women went another. They did whatever they did, and I and my friends stayed up waaay too late talking :D
Sunday was the grove's study group meeting, and then Fitzw and I went off to choral practice. It was a little rough this week, but we still made progress on one of the new songs.
Oh also, I have a new computer. Got it last week, and I'm working on it right now. Still have some work to do with figuring out what's going where, as I may be leaving some things on the old computer and we'll just network everything. Unfortunately the old PC just couldn't keep up with all the new software and was getting too slow to work on. Once we move some things over to the new PC, we can probably get the old one working properly again.
I have to get new email software. Um actually, we downloaded some but I haven't looked at it. Bother. Maybe I'll fire up the old PC later today and see what's come in over the past few days...
Oh, the PC is an HP. p6230y. It's really quite nice. The keyboard is taking a little getting used to, but not too bad. I have a flat monitor now, which is 20" wide. This will be handy for doing web site work, so I can have the site in one window side-by-side with the window where I'll be working on the nuts and bolts (HP 2009m). And it was a package deal, so I have a new printer as well. We think the ink for that is cheaper than for my good printer, so I don't mind having it. Overall, I now have better performance, a computer that will have enough space for me for some time to come, and the setup uses less energy than my old setup. My primary way of saving energy with the old PC and monitor was leaving them off; the equipment is 10 years old, so it really probably was time to get a new PC. I can leave the old one off except when I need something off of it, so it's a net gain.
