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[etienettebluet]

SUNDAY

I awoke earty to the sound of gentle rain and went back to sleep smiling; camps around me were quiet.  Got up just in time to throw on some clothes, grab a fruit juice and get to the Exchequer meeting on time at eleven. 

Ran across Isabeau and Carlos in the A&S tents.  He told me Leofwyna had a message on the list asking for help getting a package to me in camp.  I'd forgotten the apricot power cookies she'd made me and Owain.  Oops!  They'll bring 'em back with them Thursday.  Isabeau was hurting and Carlos needed to get to the food merchant area so since I was going for the van anyway I offered to came back and give them a lift.  By the time I got back she'd gotten involved with some feltmaking so I took Carlos to fetch their lunch before heading into town myself.

Now begins the continuing saga of the bed.  The slats had slipped a couple of times during the night and I'd had to carefully climb out of the wreckage and put it all back together.  A trip to town was in order to get additional slats, enough to prevent them all from shifting at all!  I was pleased to find the hardware store open and that they had what I needed and could cut to length for me.  Then, since I was in town anyway, I stopped at Lowman's for barbeque.  Love their barbeque!

Back at camp I dropped off the boards and ice, returned the van to the parking lot, and on the way back in visited with Owain and others at the Chirgeons tent.  Back in camp again I relaxed in the living room until the weather blew in near dark and I retreated to my tent to organize it a little more before retiring.  All through the night there was some major rain coming down 2-3 different times, lighting and thunder, too, making quite a show.

MONDAY

With the morning I had some mopping up to do but nothing terribly major.  I think half of the problem was I hadn't gotten all the zippers completely closed and sealed.  The bed was much improved but still some concern with slats near the middle slipping off the rail a couple times during the night.  I tried rearranging them with the longest ones in the center.  It was only a matter of scant fractions of an inch but worth a try.

Also decided I wanted to limit the number of trips up the hill each day so I organized myself, my basket, my munchies (cranberry granola bars, dried pineapple)  into my cart.  Spent much of the day in the MagMor living room since it was muddy and humid.  Just took it very easy all day.  Isadora invited me to join them for supper so I had her beef-barley burritos.  The weather did a repeat, blowing in about dark again, so I retreated to my tent and read awhile.  I love the sound of distant drums in the night... and the neeker-breekers... thunder... rain...