Pennsic. The short form.

[herveus]

Much commerce was committed at us. This is good. Almost as good as our best ever from two years ago. Midnight madness was, well, crazy. Friday fair blew it out of the water. *boggle*

The weather was splendid. The rain never a problem. The heat? Not bad at all. The dust? No black boogers. Soot from poorly trimmed tiki torches? Again, the morning nose blow says "not so bad as usual".

We got a new water heater for the shower in camp. It worked very well. It will work better next year with some tweaks.

I'm home. I'm tired. I'm sore. I'm pretty happy overall. Got some really cool news at Pennsic. Saw Istvan get his Pelican, including a way cool reading of the scroll in Hungarian, followed by Ateno getting bushwhacked big-time for a Pelican. Two Atlantian Laurelings. Much secanjabin disbursed in various places. Mr. Northshield took some away. Curly red maple seemed to be a big hit (being a corruption of "curly mint with red wine vinegar", which turned out especially fine).

Comments

[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

Ateno pelicanned?? w00t!

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Any pictures from Istvan's Pelicaning??

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Verily. :) Word on the fighting lines the next morning was that he was muttering under his breath "Ican'tbelieveitIcan'tbelieveitIcan'tbelieveit..."

I can haz new friends....

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Glad we caught some time to chat before business got, well... busy. :)
(Yes I do plan on purchasing that belt, but I am more the sort who purchases at the event for take-home, souvenir-style... Sooo.... Birka?)

I absolutely loved the "gnome" outfit, too. (Probably the only thing we could see from the "cheap seats" at the back of court!)
Great stuff, hope to have pics up later this week....

--Kayleigh

Re: I can haz new friends....

[herveus.livejournal.com]

I don't remember which belt we were talking about, but it was good to get your face to your LJ name (and now to your SCA name).

As for the "gnome" thing, I was present for a Pelican-making, so I wore one of my Caps of Maintenance. Regalia and all that. *sniff* :) Just becuase I had the biggest hat there is merely secondary. :)