Finally posted thank yous to the Bergental list this morning.

Thanks to Lyle, Henna, and Eleanore for teaching classes. I helped a little with the braiding class, but it was great being to sit on on various bits of Eleanore's ongoing teaching about cooking with fire, and helping folks (including me) with questions about specific things. Henna's demonstration of how to dress a distaff was fascinating -- had no idea how that worked before! And I got to try spinning flax on the wheel, which is a bit of a challenge but I think I'm getting the idea.

I think I saw a bit of informal teaching and sharing going on here and there during the event by various folks; also good to see!

L and I also had some great talks with Harkin about martial arts; we did spear form a couple of times, and led Charis and Angharat through Yang Tai Chi 24 form once too.

Folks who weren't here on Friday missed meeting a new person, Liz, a friend of Erin's. I believe we can expect her to show up at a fighter practice in the near future :)

Bardics on Friday and Saturday night were informal and lots of fun. Thank goodness we had clear skies Saturday night and got to see some shooting stars as well.

Singing at the farmers market Saturday morning was fun, shopping was good, and we got to hang out with a hammer dulcimer player for a bit too.

My thanks to Gwilym of Fflint, who set up a great shoot; I saw quite a few folks over there making good use of those targets!

As usual, the food was great. We ate well on both Saturday and Sunday especially.

Had some great few/one-to-one conversations throughout the weekend, which I really enjoyed.

Our chief druid had some good ideas for our future grove, too!

Not including Lyle and me, Friday we had 7 folks plus one wee one for a couple hours in the afternoon. Saturday was the busiest day, with 21, and Sunday there were 15. Again not including us two, there was only a solid 4-person overlap for all three days, with one other person coming Friday and Saturday, and two coming Saturday and Sunday. Four people camped the whole weekend and one stayed overnight from Sat to Sun.

That's what we're trying to decide, with the lovely weather we're having. Do we hope it's only occasionally sprinkling tomorrow, or do we accept the forecast of 50% precipitation with t-storms and delay the gathering for 2-3 weeks? (Family reunion next weekend, so that time is out).

Scything workshop will have to be delayed but an herb walk could still happen as long as everyone dresses appropriately for walking through wet grass....