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Tuesday I put 11 hours into the JG project, finishing up at 5am.  Stayed up long enough to pick Leofwyna up from work since I'd borrowed her van that night so didn't fall into bed until 8am Wednesday morning.  I set the alarm though for 1pm so I could get myself back onto a normal sleep schedule right away.  I did get to Wednesday moot, using her van yet again, where we discussed WWM, Herdmaster, Cattle Raids, Crown Tourney and what all else.  Back at home I managed to stay up until midnight whereupon I fell into bed and slept past 10am which felt really GOOD!!!  Now I've just got to get an invoice sent off to JG and hope the check comes fairly promptly.

I might also mention that while at JG's playing with the dogs put the notion of dogsitting into Chris' head.  I told her about the shar-pei's and I'm hoping something might come of that eventually.

Friday the car showed me a low coolant light again.  It's only been a couple weeks since I put $300 into it for that very reason so Monday I'll be calling the garage about it.  I'm almost afraid to consider what else might crap out around here.

I got the things done Friday that I needed to have ready for Saturday and we spent that day at 12th Night.  We didn't get onto the feast list so a bunch of us went to Katie's Greek Restaurant for supper afterward.  Leofwyna accidently locked the keys in the van at Katie's so the whole group waited with us in the parking lot for the locksmith to come and open it.

Sunday I'd only just gotten up when a call rang in from JG about the transcription; I headed over to his place to pick up a hard-copy so I won't be limited to city library time schedule.  I'm back to keying on his wife's number 3 laptop and I'll sit up late working on this... and finish up sometime late Monday, hopefully. 

During the drive up and back Saturday, Leofwyna expanded on her summer camping plans this year.  I had to rein in some of her ideas to leave room for my rummage sale in July.  Gotta hang on to some time for prepping and to keep up in the garden.  Sounded like she was thinking about half a dozen short trips in addition to my time at Lilies.  I held her back to three I think; one in late May, one during the summer and one in mid September.   Of course, all this is subject to change if I find work.

Did a yardwork session Tuesday, getting the entire yard mowed in one go and turning over most of the dill bed where I'll plant the tomatoes this year.  All eight potato plants are thriving, brocolli is coming right along, half the spinach was used in the fowl pastries and the first flush of radishes is nearly gone. The lettuce has bolted already and needs to come out this week so beans can go in.  Still gotta buy a couple tomato plants to put in between rainstorms; this has been a long wet spring.  The basement has remained (so far) blessedly dry... thank Gale!

I got the first third of the fowl pastries made up Thursday evening for the JAV privey tent.  I'd asked Leofwyna to make up the pastry for me again; it definitely turns out better when we do it this way.  This time I didn't bother with the little tool and they went considerably more quickly and smoothly.  They also turned out to be somewhat smaller, a true bite size.  This batch turned out particularly well with the lavender flavor being subtle but definitely there.  I'll make up the other two-thirds next week to turn in Thursday at the last pre-cook.

JG called this week. Apprently he's been let go, too.  One has to wonder are there any producers at NET any longer.  Anyway, he sounded me out for some work in September but he wanted bargain rates.  Since I haven't had any transcription in more than a year and he is just getting started I conceded.  I just won't be quit as thorough as I normally would be and I told him this would be the case.  Part of my decision is the subject is Jun Kineko again and I'm interested in the art world discussions that will be involved.

JAV this weekend turned out well for a wonder.  It rained Thursday and Friday so we were forced to do our set up Saturday morning before the event.  I got there earlier than I normally would so we could set up my sunshade for the steel fighters.  There was a good turn out of help and set up of the other canvas was going well.  I ended up resting on the baronial sunshade matting after 10am for awhile.  Near noon I helped their excellencies with their dress, lacing and tying points and pinning on ruffs.  Once I'd gone up the hill to change I settled in as lady in waiting most of the afternoon, with intermitant asides doing storytelling with random kids and catching the occasional cat nap while sitting quietly on my bench.  The day stayed clear with cool breezes; a late afternoon storm passed west and north of us which kept the temperatures nice for us.  I'd successfully husbanded my energy as I was able to help take down the steelfighters' sunshade and get myself loaded up.  Fortunately the ground had dried enough we could drive in for the load up. 

And yes, a great deal of time is still being spent in genealogy minutia.

WEDNESDAY

A run downtown to deliver the little recorder was a nul result as the recipient was not at work.  With his health issues in mind I certainly hope he's okay.  Instead of doing the thrift store thing again I went back home to the computer for some more job and genealogy searching.  When the evening rolled around I headed back out for the A&S singing session.  I took along the quilt to work on, too.  We taped the beginning of the new survivor and I think this is going to be a good one but in my opinion Phillip HAS to go! 

SATURDAY

Oh so down in the dumps today but I did continue working on the sewing area trying to get it ready to do some work in. A friend of Leofwyna is sending me a quilt to repair and another friend of ours needs some garb done soon. I also have several pieces I need to get done for Leofwyna from the last couple years. They got buried in the piles and I ran across them today... oh the guilts!

Stirring up the dust has made my sinuses itchy... bleh.

FRIDAY

Spent a little time with Gyda's fabric tearing out the panels for the two Halftroll tunics. With care and efficiency I was able to leave a full yard of the yellow and four yards of the blue for another project.

SATURDAY

Got the blue (and absolutely plain as requested) tunic finished tonight. I just want so much to trim it up somehow it's so plain.

SUNDAY

Got the yellow linen mostly sewn up but stopped when I realized I needed to preshrink the trim before finishing it up. This one is looking good and the blue red and yellow trim is Gyda's really nice tablet weaving.

MONDAY

Leofwyna was able to go to sleep early today so she was up early and wanted to go to some thrift stores and a movie. We found a few jigsaw puzzles and some Christmas cards for next couple years and had supper at Valentino's before going to see Percy Jackson. Basically it's a teen date-night revisit to mythology and forgetable enough I had trouble remembering enough of it to come up with the name to key in here.

SUNDAY

I did the machine sewing on the 13 black and white viking caps and got them into the handwork basket for finishing later. While watching a movie on television in the evening I got the handwork done on the small beige viking cap. I like the way these are turning out.

MONDAY

I had an interview for a 12-week full time temporary job at the University for May-June; cross your fingers for me, please.

While I was downtown I stopped in at the four thrift stores on O Street. Found a nice 4-yard piece of dark herringbone wool and a queen-size all cotton bedskirt. I think I can use the wool for a Scandinavian woman's caftan as the wool I got a week ago is too lightweight for the caftan and will probably become a Norman gown (I still have to dye it again to shift the color away from rosy to be darker and more more violet). The foundation from the bedskirt will make 2-3 nice veils; it's a light cotton gauze that works up nicer than anything else I've ever found. They're few and far between though as most bedskirts these days have poly or pellon-type foundations so I'm always excited when I find a good one. I'll use the stripe cotton from the bedskirt for quilt borders.

Back at home this afternoon Hochman called. He said he had a couple more tapes for me to do and offered to deliver them to me. When he arrived he had five tapes... eep! That'll keep me busy most of this week and into the weekend.

FRIDAY

Today I took a pile of Little Sister's spring-summer clothes to a consignment shop in the south part of town.  They're pretty elite there and only took about two-thirds of what I carried in.  I set up another appointment in a couple weeks as there's shoes, purses and a box or two of more summer stuff; I just have to find these boxes before then. 

Stopped at an estate sale on the way home but not one thing interesting except the view from the balcony.  Oh well, back home again for an evening of transcription.

TUESDAY

Got three loads of laundry done and another tape transcribed.