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What a wonderful weekend!
Friday night we welcomed the lovely company of Thjora, Corby, Philip and his daughter Samatha for the weekend.
Saturday was Lochmere Baronial Birthday and the Masters of Defense tournament. Kit and I arrived on site with the tents and stuff since I promised to be early for set-up, and I encouraged the boys to take their time in following. I was asked to fill in as the MOL again this year, and I had the excellent company of Adriana from Dun Carraig as an MOL-IT. She was amazing and will be a great addition to the small army of Atlantian MOLs. She must have memorized the handbook, as she was spot on and we got immediately to signing folks in and handling the paperwork for the authorization and transfer. First on deck was Brian's Free Scholar prize and some socializing. But, I'm not sure that my cheer was appreciated. ;) Then 18 fighters braved the heat to fight in the tourney, 4 heavy, 11 rapier, and 3 crossovers. Corby, Theron and Griffin went to the finals, which we did round robin style, where Corby was determined the overall Master of Defense for the 3rd year in a row. Philip was the winner of the heavy list, and Alan was the winner of the rapier list.
After court, we took orders for Outback, called in the Takeaway order, and Alan and I picked it up on our way home. There was a great impromptu feast and party back at our place with the additional company of the Mellins and Morgensterns. Isobel sold some more of her beautiful jewelry. Philip, unsettled with the terrible caulking job in our guest bathroom, tore out the old stuff and re-caulked it in the right color and technique, with my blessing and thanks. He's just like my Dad, can't rest easily if something needs fixing, and I'm okay with that. Everyone was dog tired from the heat and activity of the day, so we weren't a wild party bunch, but we managed to have a good time just the same.
This morning, I was able to sleep late, and then we had a brunch of turkey bacon, asiago cheesy eggs and toast before folks got on the road for home. Alan went to work on the pond, deconstructing the bog filter garden and fixing the leak that has been plaguing us off and on since Pennsic. I did some cleaning up, dusting in the den, and hung up some of the eradicated iris leaves and sweet flag in the garage to hopefully basket weave with later. All I've read on the subject says to dry materials in the circle, but these leaves are too firm at the base to coil, so they are currently hanging straight upside down and I hope they will still be workable. perhaps I'll test to see if they can coil after drying out a bit but not all the way. We shall see. (BTW, anyone with experience in drying your own basket-weaving materials, I'd love to hear from you.)
Then, whilst Alan continued to slave away in the heat on the pond, I decided to tackle the bookshelves in the living room. We ran out of space and the display shelves for the pottery and glassware were a bit crowded, so we got a new bookshelf with lighting and doors from IKEA and, after some shifting, had extra space. I was tired of shoving new books just where they fit, so I took almost all of the books off the shelves, re-grouped them by categories that apparently only I understand, and then put them back on so that we could more easily access those we like to access more often, and show off those we want to display, as well as tuck away those we like but don't use much. Clare, Ealdthryth and Nia would likely still be appalled by the organization system, but I'm much more comfortable with it. And now we have room to grow in several areas. I also discovered duplicates of some books. So the first person to contact me (either not requiring shipping or willing to pay for it) who wants a copy of The Book of Margery Kemp ISBN 0-14-043251-5, New Worlds, Lost Worlds by Susan Brigden ISBN 0-713-99067-8, or Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services 1570-1603 by Alan Haynes ISBN 0-7509-0676-6 will get a free copy. :) The entire re-shelving and organization took 3.5 hours, but I think it was time well spent. Maybe I'll post pictures later.
And now I'm sleepy. The things I didn't get to today was doing the re-caulking in our bathroom (inspired by Philip's work in the guest bath) or shoe shopping with Theo, but perhaps some of that can be remedied tomorrow after work.
Friday night we welcomed the lovely company of Thjora, Corby, Philip and his daughter Samatha for the weekend.
Saturday was Lochmere Baronial Birthday and the Masters of Defense tournament. Kit and I arrived on site with the tents and stuff since I promised to be early for set-up, and I encouraged the boys to take their time in following. I was asked to fill in as the MOL again this year, and I had the excellent company of Adriana from Dun Carraig as an MOL-IT. She was amazing and will be a great addition to the small army of Atlantian MOLs. She must have memorized the handbook, as she was spot on and we got immediately to signing folks in and handling the paperwork for the authorization and transfer. First on deck was Brian's Free Scholar prize and some socializing. But, I'm not sure that my cheer was appreciated. ;) Then 18 fighters braved the heat to fight in the tourney, 4 heavy, 11 rapier, and 3 crossovers. Corby, Theron and Griffin went to the finals, which we did round robin style, where Corby was determined the overall Master of Defense for the 3rd year in a row. Philip was the winner of the heavy list, and Alan was the winner of the rapier list.
After court, we took orders for Outback, called in the Takeaway order, and Alan and I picked it up on our way home. There was a great impromptu feast and party back at our place with the additional company of the Mellins and Morgensterns. Isobel sold some more of her beautiful jewelry. Philip, unsettled with the terrible caulking job in our guest bathroom, tore out the old stuff and re-caulked it in the right color and technique, with my blessing and thanks. He's just like my Dad, can't rest easily if something needs fixing, and I'm okay with that. Everyone was dog tired from the heat and activity of the day, so we weren't a wild party bunch, but we managed to have a good time just the same.
This morning, I was able to sleep late, and then we had a brunch of turkey bacon, asiago cheesy eggs and toast before folks got on the road for home. Alan went to work on the pond, deconstructing the bog filter garden and fixing the leak that has been plaguing us off and on since Pennsic. I did some cleaning up, dusting in the den, and hung up some of the eradicated iris leaves and sweet flag in the garage to hopefully basket weave with later. All I've read on the subject says to dry materials in the circle, but these leaves are too firm at the base to coil, so they are currently hanging straight upside down and I hope they will still be workable. perhaps I'll test to see if they can coil after drying out a bit but not all the way. We shall see. (BTW, anyone with experience in drying your own basket-weaving materials, I'd love to hear from you.)
Then, whilst Alan continued to slave away in the heat on the pond, I decided to tackle the bookshelves in the living room. We ran out of space and the display shelves for the pottery and glassware were a bit crowded, so we got a new bookshelf with lighting and doors from IKEA and, after some shifting, had extra space. I was tired of shoving new books just where they fit, so I took almost all of the books off the shelves, re-grouped them by categories that apparently only I understand, and then put them back on so that we could more easily access those we like to access more often, and show off those we want to display, as well as tuck away those we like but don't use much. Clare, Ealdthryth and Nia would likely still be appalled by the organization system, but I'm much more comfortable with it. And now we have room to grow in several areas. I also discovered duplicates of some books. So the first person to contact me (either not requiring shipping or willing to pay for it) who wants a copy of The Book of Margery Kemp ISBN 0-14-043251-5, New Worlds, Lost Worlds by Susan Brigden ISBN 0-713-99067-8, or Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services 1570-1603 by Alan Haynes ISBN 0-7509-0676-6 will get a free copy. :) The entire re-shelving and organization took 3.5 hours, but I think it was time well spent. Maybe I'll post pictures later.
And now I'm sleepy. The things I didn't get to today was doing the re-caulking in our bathroom (inspired by Philip's work in the guest bath) or shoe shopping with Theo, but perhaps some of that can be remedied tomorrow after work.
Mood: 
sleepy
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