War of the Roses Weekend

[helwen]

Had lots of interesting conversations while waiting at the vigil tent, and also some great food! Our own mizpagan helped with making some of the food :)

My leg was doing well enough I could put on my medieval shoes for the afternoon evening. They did however get rather thoroughly soaked with the rain that kept happening here and there, so after dark last night and also this morning I wore my walking (supported!) shoes.

Many people recognized in court. Among them, George Emerson True was given an Augmentation of Arms (a rare thing), Simone de Villeneuve was made a Baroness of the Court, Jaji got a Burdened Tyger, and Angus Kerr was elevated to the Order of the Laurel. Vivant all!

I handed off stuff to hlinspjalda to give to danabren -- quite coincidentally we set up camp next to her and a bunch of other folks we know. Enjoyed chats of varying lengths singly or in groups with Alistrina, Thora, Dof, shalmestre, hudebnik, Deonna, Max, Fritz, Fergal, a couple from Delftwood (merchant jeweler and able wifely assistant), the amusing and curious owner of Calontir Trims, harpnfiddle, mizpagan, bytechearse, hugh_mannity, Angus K, Mercedes, Angharad, Marcele, Grim, Rowan de Beauchamp, and of course various and sundry other Bergenthalers who were there.

Saturday night it rained cats, dogs and small ponies. The light show was also fairly spectacular as seen through canvas. Our new tent held up quite well, with just a little light misting during the heaviest of the downpours.

We left around 1pm, having decided we'd like to stop in at Hancock Shaker Village, which neither of us has been to in decades. We also needed to get home early enough that L can practice on his trombone for the Memorial Day parade (we start at town hall and then proceed down and into the cemetery to the main place with the flag and then over to the old war memorial).

We only had a couple of hours at Hancock, but it was quite enjoyable looking at things and talking to a few of the folks there. The lady in the woodworking shop was a real cracker -- more plays on words then you could shake a stick at and all very nicely delivered.

From Roses we came home with trim, a silver pin (six-petaled shape), and some wrought iron S-hooks (How to keep an art from dying out? Support it!). From Hancock we have a book on various ways to finish chair seats (rush, cane, split, etc.), a straw hat that actually fits L's head, and a rolling pin with two rollers on it. Supposed to make rolling pie crusts even easier -- mind, I've never had much trouble with rolling (other problems maybe, but not that) -- but other folks seem to find it a challenge, so if it really is easier and gets more people to try making crusts, I'm for it.

Hm, overall a pretty good weekend so far. Can't walk much now, but lots of good things happened. Some practice tonight, a call to my mom, and then tomorrow the parade, and of course class tomorrow night. Hm, maybe I should add in a bath there, at least for myself!

Comments

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Emerson got an Aug? Sweeeeeeeeeeet!

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Definitely! He was his usual gracious and attentive self of course, kneeling but upright. Then when they were reading the scroll and said what it was for, he put his hands to his face and collapsed to sitting/kneeling :)

[danabren.livejournal.com]

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