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The weather forecast LIES.

There is a fairly narrow but pretty severe thunderstorm system moving through the metro at the moment. We got back at around 4, and thus when it hit Richfield at 6-ish we were not driving through it. We do need the rain, but this means that I am getting no gardening done. *sigh*

Weekend summary without tournament results.

I took a half-day from work, which let me run by Cost Plus to pick up another nifty basket which will fit in the one I bought to haul class materials and Whole Foods to shop for nibbles including some really good giant green olives. I will have to buy more of them. I potted the two roses I bought at Home Depot into larger pots, watered all the gardeny sorts of things, and packed. But not in that order. D showed up a little after 5, we went and fed the car, had sandwiches at Subway, and hit the road. While in traffic on 94 still in MN (road construction, don't you know) I realized I'd forgotten to pack the scroll, so back we went. Only lost us an hour, and by then the traffic had thinned out pretty substantially. More traffic at Menominee, no traffic after that. Exploding cows south of us pretty much the whole way through Wisconsin, rain starting at about 40 miles out of Green Bay.

D and I rolled in at about 12:30, unloaded, and went to bed at what was probably 1 or so. Woke up at 6:30 because *someone* insisted on a wake-up call then. Something about an early court meeting or something like that. Anyway. Had a meaty-good breakfast buffet (which comes with the room), drifted on down to the exhibition hall which is where things were set up, put A&S stuff out on the display, chatted the sad state of A&S with Roxelana, drifted into the main room to discover court was in session. Stood in the back and snarked at bad garb. Got called up as a scribe. There was a gentleman standing behind me at one point who was very confused as to what was going on during the actual investiture part, and asked me lots of questions. I think he was either someone's parent or someone's SO who'd never been to an event before. He commented that I seemed to know what was going on--I decided not to enlighten him as to who I was. I'll just let him think I'm really smart. :-) Cruised the merchants after court, but chatting with various people made it longer than originally intended. I bought a lovely rosewood spoon from Solly and Priscilla to add to my nifty period serving pieces, even though I'm pretty sure rosewood isn't period it's a nifty spoon regardless. I found three books at TJ's and D found a ring he liked, which is the same as my lapis one but larger. I picked up a copy of Here Be Wyverns, which is Nancy Spies's book of charted patterns. It will work for beading and TW, and can be adapted for embroidery that isn't cross-stitch. D bought trim. Medb had baskets of scribal goodies from TSH Anne and Aubrey that she was charged with distributing--I am now the proud owner of a box of period pigments. I think there might be a couple of them that are actually period for me and for the primary styles of illumination that I do. I suppose I have less of an excuse to procrastinate learning gilding, now, too.

Notes on the new dress pattern: It looks right and it fits pretty well except for one teeny tiny problem, which is that it is too snug across the middle chest. I'm not sure how to make the adjustments so that it will still hang right but there will be more boob space so when I wear a bra which is more supportive than the one I was wearing it will fit properly. That fabric desperately needs an undergown of some variety because it is wool gabardine, and it ravels like crazy, and it itches. Other than that, it is pretty much right. A couple of people noticed my shoes, which were the brown and white fabric ones that I've had for years and years, and you couldn't see them really well under the skirt of the dress. More on that in a bit. Nobody noticed the new brooch until it was pointed out to them that E and I had matching ones. Somebody admired my belt.

E made new shoes out of this blue and white upholstery fabric with stylized ferns on it. White ground/blue ferns or blue ground/white ferns. Very 16th/17th century to my eyes, although it was a lot better than the wool his mom gave him which was extraordinarily 60's. Only a couple people noticed his shoes, which were brand-new. More people noticed mine, which were not, and we were amused.

Corydon and Typhaine's little girl is teeny, only 10 pounds at 2 months. And Typhaine, of course, shows no sign of having ever been pregnant--she's still wearing her old garb from before. It was declared by all the women who'd had children that they were now going to hate her for that. She and Corydon are just totally gooey about each other, and gooey about little Claire Marie--it's that sort of infectious kind of gooey that gives everybody around them big goofy grins too. This is an Extremely Good Thing. We'll have to forgive them for forgetting to announce Claire on the Hall.

The extremely short tournament summary: Ziggy and Tarrach in the finals. Ziggy won. The full impact may have finally hit him by now, not sure.

Feast took as long as some poorly run SCA feasts, which was sad because this was a professional kitchen used to serving a group our size. Luckily there was birthday cake for HrRM's birthday that came out before dinner was served so we did not starve to death while waiting for real food to arrive after having devoured our small salads and the tiny amount of bread provided. Food was good, although the vegetable was mixed broccoli and cauliflower, and there was no dessert. I consider this a major fault. Court was very late, because feast was at 7:30.

Court did not take forever, which was a good thing. Some embroidery finally got done. I'd brought both my spinning and my embroidery, but no spinning got done at all, and the only embroidery that I got done before court was to whipstitch the raw edges of the canvas I'm currently working the beading on. Court was a typical NS love-fest--I hope certain non-natives who are hoping to win a future Crown were taking notes.

After court, we wandered around a bit and chatted with people and eventually got to bed around 2. if it weren't already 7:30 now I'd consider napping, but I'll probably just go to bed early. I nearly fell asleep in the car several times, and no, I was not driving. Maybe I will go lay down anyway. Or perhaps I will peruse one of my new books.