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Apr. 19th, 2016 02:27 amI thought I was going to work this evening - but I was wrong.
We had a demo over the weekend, and that involved Bossman and I bringing out our pavilion and filling it with a static display, a 'food challenge',
and a table of medieval/Renn period games. One of my protégées ran the games table each day.
She was a real trooper, as she had not planned on doing that but stepped in when it became obvious that the other members of our local group were really just there to hang out with each other and watch people walk by. She worked her hinny off.
I did the food challenge. Arranged a bunch of fruits and vegetables between two baskets and then challenged passerbys to sort them into "known in Europe before Columbus sailed" and "introduced to Europe after the finding of the New World". No one got it 100% right. In fact, I think the best was about 80%, but oh how decisive some of the wrong answers were! As I unloaded the baskets and put the items back in the middle, I told the players stories about the items - just minor tidbits like "Carob comes from the Locust tree, which has led some scholars to conclude that John the Baptist ate carob & honey, not insects and honey while he wandered the desert. In fact, carob is sometimes called "St. John's bread." or "Bananas are the largest herb in the world and originated in Malaysia, then passed into India, where Alexander the Conqueror found them and ended up transporting them to northern Africa, where they spread like a weed - like kudzu!"
We did the final unloading of the truck this afternoon, after I had spent the earlier day shopping for supplies for the lumpia fundraiser. I am sore and exhausted. The loading/unloading and setting up of our equipment gets more difficult each time, I swear. And driving an hour each day to work from 9-5:30 was no way to rest up between the setting up and the tearing down. Luckily we had wonderful people who helped us with both. But for tonight, after unloading and schlepping all the heavy stuff, I don't trust my judgment for driving unknown routes - my brain is tired and my body aches moving or sitting still. So home I stay. I watched the latest episode of "Call the Midwife" and now I'm going to retire with a new book. Hopefully it will lull me to sleep.
We had a demo over the weekend, and that involved Bossman and I bringing out our pavilion and filling it with a static display, a 'food challenge',
and a table of medieval/Renn period games. One of my protégées ran the games table each day.
She was a real trooper, as she had not planned on doing that but stepped in when it became obvious that the other members of our local group were really just there to hang out with each other and watch people walk by. She worked her hinny off.
I did the food challenge. Arranged a bunch of fruits and vegetables between two baskets and then challenged passerbys to sort them into "known in Europe before Columbus sailed" and "introduced to Europe after the finding of the New World". No one got it 100% right. In fact, I think the best was about 80%, but oh how decisive some of the wrong answers were! As I unloaded the baskets and put the items back in the middle, I told the players stories about the items - just minor tidbits like "Carob comes from the Locust tree, which has led some scholars to conclude that John the Baptist ate carob & honey, not insects and honey while he wandered the desert. In fact, carob is sometimes called "St. John's bread." or "Bananas are the largest herb in the world and originated in Malaysia, then passed into India, where Alexander the Conqueror found them and ended up transporting them to northern Africa, where they spread like a weed - like kudzu!"
We did the final unloading of the truck this afternoon, after I had spent the earlier day shopping for supplies for the lumpia fundraiser. I am sore and exhausted. The loading/unloading and setting up of our equipment gets more difficult each time, I swear. And driving an hour each day to work from 9-5:30 was no way to rest up between the setting up and the tearing down. Luckily we had wonderful people who helped us with both. But for tonight, after unloading and schlepping all the heavy stuff, I don't trust my judgment for driving unknown routes - my brain is tired and my body aches moving or sitting still. So home I stay. I watched the latest episode of "Call the Midwife" and now I'm going to retire with a new book. Hopefully it will lull me to sleep.
