Coronation and more

[aelfgifu]

We managed to get hanksans bid approved for Kingdom A&S next March! Yay! It will be sponsored by the Shire of Mountain Edge, and will be at Pacific University in Forest Grove.

We arrived on site for Coronation REALLY LATE. But we found a relatively level spot for our tent and had lots of help setting up (THANK YOU EVERYONE!) and even ended up neat Alfric and Leith and Allessandra, so had good neighbors. Well, aside from the  annoying dancing pirates that is.  I will see enough dancing gypsy/pirate next saturday when we go slumming. ;-)

ursuleand I attended the apprentices tea on Saturday Morning. I displayed some of the items I had made for commission, which worked well as the recipiants all found me. I also managed to sell a few extra items and pick up a few new commissions. Not to mention just having fun talking about glass and showing off. :-) I managed to not eat any of the cookies, which made me proud, and saw a lot of people I know and like. All and all a good experiance. I did have to haul the stuff all the way from our ampsite across the road, This has raised my determination to cart train Rasuptin. I am looking at dog carts and found the old TI article on dog carting, which has a lot of good info. I now have a winter project of making a dog cart, unless I can convince Ed to make one for me.

We had some chicken, leek and barley stew that I made from an anglo-saxon recipie in the brittish museum cookbook for lunch. It was quite good, and we have a bunch left ovber that I foze. Yay for pre-cooking medieval foods!

The red pavilion had its first set-up after being waterproofed and with sides on. It was nice, and gives me ideas about how to finish it. I also did the first trial set-up of the not yet finished fire pit. Very useful for design ideas also, though I don't know when I will have time to finish everything. I am now wanting mroe period cooking implements, but they are all expensive, so I may just  have to start making stuff this winter once we have a better blacksmithing area set up. I may also experiment with some copper work. I think dad still has a prewter spoon mold which I will also drag out.

Leith has apparently been practicing five balls in hopes of surpassing Jason and I in numbers juggling. We can't have that. luckily there is a five ball workshop at the International Jugglers Association Festival which is in Portland this week. I am going tomorrow. It should inspire me to practice hard for at least a month or two. I also am going to take a hat manipulation workshop. ursule gave me another couple silly knitted 16th century hats and I think I need to use my silly hats in a performance. It will be entertaining.

Guiseppie (sp?) is pressuring me to enter something in Kingdom Bardic. I did actually think about this before, but was going to wait a year or so because I have some specific ideas about Things To Do which require a lot of practice and some more advanced props. On the other hand, if I can track down some better Diabolo documentataion I may be able to pyt something decent together. I could do a new version of the Magnificent Maurice (espec. if I can juggle fire on site and find a place to set up a slack line), then do a diabolo act to music, and then I just need one more piece really. Does anyone know anything about medieval Chinese music and where I could get a recording of some or someone to play some for me? I would also need garb to prefrom in which could be interesting timing wise.

I am also now oficailly the figure-head autocrat for an equestrian event in November. I hadsort of forgotten about volunteering for this, but luckily I just have to show up and Macca is handling all of the real organization stuff. It should be fun. Being a person who wants to do everything, I am excited about this chance to learn more about equestrian stuff. Maybe I can even get Ailie to show up.

All right, I have written mroe than enough. I could write more but you are all probabaly sick of my ramblings. And I have procrastinated long enough. Must go solder. Sorry, not spell/typo checking because I suck.