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Saturday

Up early to take eggs for inn and sit troll at Cattle Raids. My afternoon assignment didn't occur and walking back up that hill counts for today's walk. I sat with Sabi and Jaylynn working on my inkle loom until court. Investiture happened (no award for me). Left soon after in the rain which fell rather heavily all the way back to Lincoln. Stopped at HyVee on the way home for a nice steak for my supper. Downstairs beginning webbing assembly on one of the Triple Threat tops for Aurora.

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Saturday

Up and leaving Aliner in camp headed to Queen's Prize event. During court Morgana got her AOA, Gyda announced she and Halftroll were stepping down from Barony and at the end of day I rode home with Gwenyth and Asa. I was in bed by 11:30 and slept well.

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Saturday

Up early and off to Omaha with Cera riding along. An abbreviated Coronation but effective just the same and after a year and a half we finally have new royalty, Hirsh and Magda. We hit a few thrift stores in the late afternoon then Pla Too for my late birthday supper.

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Saturday

Up and out for prescription, bank and lunch before heading to Cass County for Cattle Raids. Felt I wasn't really needed at the archery range... left at the end of court. A hot and windy afternoon but except for checking in I stayed outside, I'm beat.

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Thursday (10) a slow start then loading the van for Kris Kinder. Headed out for some lunch then back home to price tag a few more things and pack garb in my tote to load in the morning before heading out. We went to Olive Garden for soup and dessert.

Friday (11) finished getting ready to head out... on the road before one heading out to pick up change and lunch. Arrived in St Joseph about 4pm to hit three thrift stores. I found the spring embroidery hoop I'd wanted recently. Leofwyna found more dishes, etc. We continued to KC for supper at Rhinelander... Jaegerschnitzel with spatzel. Set up at the school grounds was delayed by rain so we weren't settled in until after midnight.

Saturday up at seven to set up for merchanting. Fortunately it was dry for unloading... and the rest of the day, still dry if terribly chilly for loading up. I'd arranged to ride home with the Doerrs, Sally and Gwyneth...supper in the Greek place in St. Jo and in my door by 11:30.

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Friday (noon) loaded up and headed out to get the battery for the camper. Then on the road somehow the emergency brake cable got pulled out and the trailer stopped us. I was a genius and figured it out while Leofwyna was on the phone with Farmers so she cancelled that and called a trailer place in St Joe for a replacement. It all worked out but we covered that piece of road three times (abt 45 min each way). We pulled into Smithville Lake after midnight and found a spot to set up for the night. Getting set up in the cold got a spell started and when I tried to settle into bed it really took hold so now Leofwyna's all worried about me.

Saturday (9:00) up and went to morning court and the tournament. Marius Lucian Fidelis won for Tamar bat Avraham.. It was a really long tourney with 26 entrants. When afternoon court was done I rode home with Gwyneth, Isadora and Natalya. Leofwyna headed into Kansas City for another round of thrifting.

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Saturday up at 5:30 to be at Cat's by 6:30. No problem waking with Leofwyna's helpful, "Wakey, wakey." Today was the memorial for Master Edward Boicewright, my apprentice sister Marcella's husband. I rode down with Cat, Gyda and Asa. Among several topics of discussion was a site for WWM. A suggestion of the school building in Marquette was not immediately shot down so I'll see what I can find out about the possibility.
Back in town by 4pm so I went to Walt Library for a session before they closed at six. At the sewing table I continue stripping the fripping.

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Thursday slept again after feeding Cassie at nine; up at nearly one and out for lunch and library computer. I'm still working up the Roper cousins since 1800. At the sewing table pressed fripping.

Friday up, pack and load the camper to head out to St Joe where we hit a couple thrift stores before finding supper (lovely salmon entrees) at Frederick's on Faraon Avenue. The air-mattress is an improvement as far as shoulders and hips are concerned. I'm not sure what's given me a back-ache between the shoulder blades though and was awake again before seven.

Saturday up and out for court at ten and a full day with afternoon court and a very nice feast. Leofwyna took one of her naps in the afternoon so she was good for the drive home; a good thing as I wasn't.

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Thursday showered and loaded up the ice chest, then headed out for a few days. Spent Thursday afternoon hitting thrift stores in Kansas City and having Jaegershnitzel for supper, then headed to St. Charles Walmart to set up for the night. Spent Friday hitting thrift stores in St Charles and St Louis (linen duvet cover, canning jars, one fripper, journal), then found good Greek for supper. Went back to St Charles to set up for the night again. Saturday was Crown Tourney and I left Leofwyna behind to return with the Doerr's so I don't need to miss gaming again. Saturday night the Doerrs and I visited Grimwulf and Avaine to see the house they've been working on 6-7 years. Very impressive. Sunday we were up early and drove back to Lincoln where Cassie had lots to say about neglect and abandonment. Sunday evening headed over to Theron's where Gnancy earned 1300 helping to deal with goblins, hobgoblins, wargs and a troll.

There's a full trail of blooming daffodils across the front yard now.

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Thursday we loaded up to go to Topeka and hit into several thrift stores and supper before driving on to Wichita to set up the camper in a Walmart there. It was a cold night without heat but plenty of wool blankets. During the night it started raining and kept on with it all day Friday. We spent all day Friday in various thrift stores with mixed luck and finished the day trying to find the right Walmart where we'd left the camper. Third try was successful much to our relief. It was another cold night with light snow flurries. Saturday we overslept (alarm was mis-set) but arrived at coronation, missing only a Laurel elevation and a few recognitions. It was a beautiful site with a 'town square' community hall. Leofwyna also was approached about a co-hosting of 2020 summer coronation with Lonely Tower; they have a site that might work. She napped part of the afternoon. Returning home late Saturday night coming through Beatrice where we were stopped for a broken taillight and into Lincoln found 5-6 inches of snow. What a delight to pull up home to find someone had cleared our drive and walks. I only had to push snow off the two steps in front.

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Friday out to lunch and library for genealogy then an evening with the sniglets. I burned my tummy with boiling water when I drained the potatoes for supper, ouch! Saturday we headed to Weeping Water for Coronation. We hadn't signed up for feast so we were home again and crashed (from the heat of the day) by seven.

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Saturday up early, load up and go to the opposite corner of town for WWM. Was timely for a change and sat Leofwyna's troll shift. Since I hadn't slept well and the canvas was not there to paint after all I left at the end of the shift and got a nap at home before going to the library computer. Finished ironing JAV whites but aside from that loafed. The energy levels were definately off from the broken night's sleep.

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Saturday we went up to Lonely Tower for 12th Night. We gifted close friends with the Peach Butter I made last fall, 15 half-pints and we could have used a couple more. I took one of my baskets to give Isabeau (I'd overheard her lamenting the demise of her previous one last month). I'd given Carlos some of my to-short wool socks at Yule Court. During court Odierne was given a leather mallet for her many scroll texts and Ffelix got a Cross for the internet work he does for the kingdom. Halftroll and others complimented my 14th Century Florentine ensemble. Leofwyna's singing group performed at feast, then Leofwyna and I went to Pla's as we hadn't sent in a reservation. I owe Shandra a coif for 12th Night... she offered to give up her peach butter for Vereena in exchange for one of my coifs. She likes my coifs... with extra long strings to tie up around her head.

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Friday afternoon I baked up a double batch of banana bread. We are really enjoying using up inexpensive, overripe bananas this way. Leofwyna had an errand in the evening and I baked up a package of chicken thighs so I could have some with my leftover goa rice... nom!

Saturday morning got up VERY early to load up and go to Council Bluffs for Lonely Tower's 12th Night. I wore my new Florentine daydress, adding the sleaves for court to 'dress up'. There was a morning court to tag Volkmar for Pelican and everything was ready for him to receive his elevation at afternoon court this same day. I spent the day visiting, hand-sewing and by 4 o'clock eyestrain struck with painful muscles in my right eye and threatening headache. I put away the sewing and was able to enjoy court but alarmed Leofwyna by 'disappearing' afterwards. I'd only sat down at a quiet table when I came out of the bathroom and she couldn't find me. We went with Volkmar, Isadora, Asa and Morgana to Greek Isles for supper. OMG it was good. I don't know why we haven't been there in so long; it was one of Roxane's favorites way back when.

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Friday I put some time in on the computer at the library. After lunch I stopped in at the central Goodwill and found a set of plastic drawers. At the cutting table in the evening I'm still dealing with slicing the washed cutters into strips. Leofwyna had also brought home a set of plastic drawers for me to sort into so I started reorganizing as things had been getting somewhat cramped. This will take awhile but will make it much easier to access pieces when I'm building new tops.

Saturday I went to crown tournament in Council Bluffs alone. Both Leofwyna and Morgana were under the weather and stayed home. It was a beautiful day and the 31 contestant field moved briskly along taking merely 3.5 hours to reach a conclusion. Ashir and Ashland are now the prince and princess. Court lasted long and accomplished much but a keenly anticipated accolade was not included at this time. At least Leofwyna didn't miss it thereby. I left before feast, stopping at PlaToo for my supper before continuing home.

Sunday we both went up to Omaha for Annalise and Gavin's afternoon wedding. It was another glorious day and the lovely ceremony was held in a beautiful yard at UNO's Alumni building. Afterwards there was time for a stop at one Thrift World where Leofwyna bought bagsfull of stuff. We got back to Lincoln in time for me to grab a burger on the way to gaming at Theron's where a 'stony' troop of bullies were ignored, then a little later 8 trogs and two trolls were destroyed. The wagon is yet to be repaired but it has been unloaded.

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Friday we drove down Pueblo way for Battlemor. Since we encountered horrendous traffic along I25 what should have been a three hour drive became five; we didn't arrive on site until well after five o'clock. However since we were in time for opening court we weren't too unhappy. We were able to spend some time with Marcella and Ed that evening and Leofwyna joined the hafla drummers for a couple hours which pleased her no end. The hospitality included go-carts and we were fortunate enough to catch the last one out to the parking lot at the end of the day. Saturday we were back on site around noon and spent the afternoon in the costuming tent. We attended court again beginning at five o'clock and this one lasted until full dark as there was much business and three elevations to be presented. We bid farewell to Marcella and Ed after court, gathered up our chairs and baskets to go to the hospitality tent where we found the go-carts weren't running for the rest of the night. This was a very bad thing as the trip out to the parking lot would be majorly uphill and roughly half a mile at that. A pair of brass-hatted ladies hearing of our plight rounded up a ride for us for which we were very thankful. The drive back to Loveland was nearly exactly the three hour drive we had expected it to be and we fell directly into bed when we got there.

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Wednesday I did my first reward recommendation. I know it 's bad to have to admit that but I finally knew enough about someone's endevours to feel I'd be able to do justice to it. Spending so much time at the Great Machine at 50th year Celebration gave me a good handle on the subject and inspired me to follow through with the following comment.

"It started with a dog cart. He wanted his dogs to be able to be out of their kennels and have a purpose at weekend events. The Great Wheel evolved as another venue for the dogs as well as furthering his own other interests. I recently had the pleasure to spend several fascinating afternoons during the 50th year Celebration this July watching as the dogs eagerly awaited a command to enter the wheel and their reluctance to stop once started. This gentleman shared his knowledge with the folks who came to see the Great Machine and the dogs. During the seven years he's been building and improving on this creation he has been learning and sharing his craft in metal working, wood working and dog handling. Closer to home over the years we've seen him redacting medieval glues and growing flax with which to make his own rope among many other interesting related subjects. He has never failed to impress me with the variety of medieval things he'll set his mind and hands to and the patience with which he trains his dogs so the work they do is as play for them. Each year as the Great Machine has grown the plastic buckets, ice chests and Coleman lanterns have gradually disappeared and documentable medieval replacements added which continue to add to the ambiance inside his fences. In the last year alone he's added a power hammer and begun a huge pair of bellows. He's given thought to his own appearance and fine-tuned his garb so he matches the workmen in document illustrations."

I had only one letter left available to me when I finished expanding, rephrasing and polishing my commentary on Master Gerald Goodwine.

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50th Celebration and Michigan lake shore

It was a lovely thing that Leofwyna had obtained a plug-in site for the camper. It was a hot-hot-hot week in Danville, Indiana and we were able to rest well. There were some great amenities in the form of a/c'd shower trailers and a/c'd flushy trailers between our site and the Great Machine making things very convenient for us. We were pleased to attend the founders' get together the first Saturday and had the good fortune of an informal meeting in the hall with several others and visiting with Diana Listmaker herself for nearly 20 minutes. Leofwyna had three really good drumming evenings which put her in great spirits throughout. I spent most of my days at the Great Machine helping as I was able, mostly allowing Master Gerald the opportunity on his 'off-days' to know he could get away awhile. The reception for the Great Machine by folks was consistantly a fission of excitment and awe which was a wonderful boost for his lordship. Wednesday night's bloom compression was especially impressive. (Back at home we found numerous photos and videos of the Great Machine available in Facebook.)

When 50th was done Leofwyna and I headed north to camp in the woods near the south edge of Lake Michigan. Leofwyna got to put another stamp in her passport for the Indiana Dunes National Park. We daytripped to Chicago, Shipshiwanna, and up into Michigan more than once. Of course we visited many thrift stores everywhere we went and we looked diligently for Habitate ReStores where we did find some of the tiles we need for the laundry room floor. We developed a special fondness for New Buffalo, Michigan, where we found wonderful ice cream at Oinks and attended the fireworks on the beach on the Fourth of July. Although we sprayed ourselves with mosquito spray repeatedly through the days we came home with extensive bug bites all up and down our legs, very itchy for days. One suggestion after the fact was chiggers but that doesn't seem right to me.

NOTE: Most likely the 'chiggers' were oak mites. The itching eased off after a week or so and the spots finally disappeared a few weeks later.

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Back home again and worn out. Friday we loaded up and went to Des Moines where Leofwyna had found us a nice camping spot at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. We had time to hit a couple thrift stores and found a great Indian Restaurant on University Ave near 73rd. It was a short drive Saturday morning to the Coronation site where we arrived in time to ensure seats at feast. Leofwyna spent a significant portion of her afternoon between courts finishing up the bid for next years coronation and I found an opportunity to present my 'queen's hankies' to HM Ylva and pledge more to come during her reign. During afternoon court I was having a stomach ache but fortunately it had passed by time we sat down for feast.

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Monday I dropped the tire off to be repaired but when I came back later I learned it was done. Looking back over repair slips I am reminded I've been warned the past year that this was probably coming up. Gotta find a replacement tire or buy a new set; remains to be seen which that will be. It was a pretty day but rained again in the night. I remembered, finally, to send in a membership update. At the sewing table I ironed the stack of cottons I washed the other day. Tuesday I got bumped off the libraries computer after only one 'sett' and didn't make it back for more. Tuesday evening was Fighters and Fibers where I worked another arc on the quilt and it rained steadily throughout the evening with a Tornado Watch until 9pm. I washed up another stack of cottons from the box ready to iron.