Post from last weekend.
Jul. 8th, 2012 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j_v_lynchGentle Readers,
I've been trying to find the time to write this up for about a week, but it's been pretty crazy busy here. Work had been exhausting, today in particular. Partly, there has been lots of work to get done and I have to keep switching tasks, but the other issue is problems with the air conditioning. Today it was 32 deg in the office. It was only 34 outside. It's hard to get anything done.
Anyway, I wanted to talk about last weekend. Last weekend was the big event here in Ealdormere, Trillium War (aka Trillies). We got off to a slow start but made it mid friday afternoon. We settled in and had an exceptionally easy setup as our friends had generously set up our Pavillion. Since they have borrowed it for a couple of demos, they have set it up more than we have. Anyway, this made for a very simple set up and thus a very restful day.
At this point I've kind of lost track of the order in which things happened, but I mostly remember what happened.
I know I helped with an authorization. That was friday afternoon/evening I think. Friday night, Lydia got to play in her first Night Shoot and did pretty well. That night their majesties asked if I would be their rapier champion at Pennsic. I was super flattered, but I'm not entirely sure what that means in terms of responsibilites other than fighting in the champions battle at Pennsic. This will be the second time I fight in that tourney. I'll have to figure out a better way of warming up for it to get my head in the right space. Maybe just fence for a while before hand. I'm not sure if that will be possible.
I spent most of Saturday making a book with Velvetmae. That was pretty fantastic. I finally did a bit of fencing that evening in the Rose Tournament. It was an interesting format. There were two armoured combatants and an unarmoured fencer per team and each round was best 2 of three. Thankfully, my opponents carried me through the first 3 rounds I took to warm up and I was able to have their backs in the final rounds alowing us to win the tournament. It was pretty fantastic.
Sunday morning I finished off my book. It was awesome. I have now made 3 things at three events that I have never done before. I have decided that my goal is to come up with a Pent entry made of things made at events and ideally things that I've never made before.
The rest of Sunday was pretty hot so we disappeared off to town to watch Brave, which was wonderful.
We headed back and I got a bit of cut and thrust with archibald before it was time for great court. After that, finally, came dinner and after dinner came wine. The wine was joined with lovely conversation and I had the most relaxing and cheerful evening with a whole tableful of good friends.
Monday was teardown day and it went went very smoothly. I was able to verify that we could do most of the teardown of the pavillion without taking down the roof. This will make things easier if we ever have to take it down in the rain. We puttered and helped with the food group takedown and finally hit the road just after lunch.
It was a very rejuvinating weekend.
I've been trying to find the time to write this up for about a week, but it's been pretty crazy busy here. Work had been exhausting, today in particular. Partly, there has been lots of work to get done and I have to keep switching tasks, but the other issue is problems with the air conditioning. Today it was 32 deg in the office. It was only 34 outside. It's hard to get anything done.
Anyway, I wanted to talk about last weekend. Last weekend was the big event here in Ealdormere, Trillium War (aka Trillies). We got off to a slow start but made it mid friday afternoon. We settled in and had an exceptionally easy setup as our friends had generously set up our Pavillion. Since they have borrowed it for a couple of demos, they have set it up more than we have. Anyway, this made for a very simple set up and thus a very restful day.
At this point I've kind of lost track of the order in which things happened, but I mostly remember what happened.
I know I helped with an authorization. That was friday afternoon/evening I think. Friday night, Lydia got to play in her first Night Shoot and did pretty well. That night their majesties asked if I would be their rapier champion at Pennsic. I was super flattered, but I'm not entirely sure what that means in terms of responsibilites other than fighting in the champions battle at Pennsic. This will be the second time I fight in that tourney. I'll have to figure out a better way of warming up for it to get my head in the right space. Maybe just fence for a while before hand. I'm not sure if that will be possible.
I spent most of Saturday making a book with Velvetmae. That was pretty fantastic. I finally did a bit of fencing that evening in the Rose Tournament. It was an interesting format. There were two armoured combatants and an unarmoured fencer per team and each round was best 2 of three. Thankfully, my opponents carried me through the first 3 rounds I took to warm up and I was able to have their backs in the final rounds alowing us to win the tournament. It was pretty fantastic.
Sunday morning I finished off my book. It was awesome. I have now made 3 things at three events that I have never done before. I have decided that my goal is to come up with a Pent entry made of things made at events and ideally things that I've never made before.
The rest of Sunday was pretty hot so we disappeared off to town to watch Brave, which was wonderful.
We headed back and I got a bit of cut and thrust with archibald before it was time for great court. After that, finally, came dinner and after dinner came wine. The wine was joined with lovely conversation and I had the most relaxing and cheerful evening with a whole tableful of good friends.
Monday was teardown day and it went went very smoothly. I was able to verify that we could do most of the teardown of the pavillion without taking down the roof. This will make things easier if we ever have to take it down in the rain. We puttered and helped with the food group takedown and finally hit the road just after lunch.
It was a very rejuvinating weekend.
