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Apr. 27th, 2023 11:05 pmWe're going to a small local event on Saturday. Something happened and the event has been suddenly modified so we can only use the site until 6:00. I bet the head cook is going nuts. I think I remember that at least one dish was planned to be a long slow-cooking one so now it's going to be a choice between precooking (and deciding how long and how much) or creating a different dish. It's nothing that the cook can't handle but I feel for them having this hit at the last minute. I am thinking about bringing my never-used-yet cribbage board with me to see if I can lure anyone into a game or two. It is this one and I think it is very pretty. https://www.amazon.com/Palm-Royal-Handicrafts-Cribbage-Availabe/dp/B093QGGJH9/ref=sr_1_11?crid=1I33LGINPQSI6&keywords=round+cribbage+boards+wooden&qid=1682652732&sprefix=round+cribbage%2Cspecialty-aps%2C104&sr=8-11 I have my embroidery to bring, of course, but I can't do it for very long anymore and need something else to do during the rest of the event. We're not staying for feast so it is going to be a short day but I am okay with that. The temperature is predicted to be in the low 70s (f) with a 16% chance of intermittent showers, which likely means one or two half-hour moments of rain and then we'll be back to partially cloudy skies.
We had planned on just "hanging out". There is no archery going on, so my spouse has nothing to do but help set things up and tear them back down again. This is good, in that if he couldn't be busy at least part of the time he wouldn't want to go. "Just visiting with friends" is not his idea of a fun event. We're planning on bringing our new-ish pop-up and testing out the new walls I bought for it. It didn't come with walls and we need at least one sun & wind break. I'd originally purchased patterned shower curtains to use for that but even though their black patterning on the white cloth is somewhat correct-to-period for woven design, I don't like them. I'd only purchased two, just enough to lap over each other and cover one side of the shelter. During the winter I got a wild hair and bought three red walls (the roof is a pagoda style in red and black, our household colors) so this will give us a chance to try out the walls and see if they work. It isn't easy to find walls for a 12x12 pop-up after the fact. And I know that red walls are not the best choice - a Pennsic mayor once bought a huge black and red pavilion to use in for the motor pool and it was a disaster because of how the sun shining through shaded everything red. It is now used as (I think) the "noisy tent" out near the battlefield, for musicians. Anyway, I'm not too worried about what things will look like in our interior since we'll only be using one wall at a time to shade/shield, and the few times that we put all three of them up it will be because it is raining, when the interior is going to be murky anyway. On those occasions we'll use the two shower curtains as "drapes" for the open side, which should look nice. But first to make sure that the walls actually can attach to and fit the sides. It is going to suck if we get there and find out that the walls don't work on a drippy day!
Weather and pollen have combined to make me grumpy and sore for a while now. But I had a fabulous day yesterday after sleeping for 13 hours (!) and waking up at a normal time for those who live day-focused lives. I got so much done! Went to bed all chipper and happy planning more to do today after I'd wake up, then struggled to get to sleep and finally succeeded sometime after 3am. Urg. My glucose monitor's alarm did not wake me up so far as I can remember but I did wake up a few hours later at a dangerously low level. It read 41. It doesn't register lower than that so I don't know how low my count was. Drank apple juice and ate a package of peanut-butter crackers (nasty. I must have bought the wrong brand) and things improved so I went back to sleep. Woke up to my count almost at 300, then it dropped down to stupid-low again, and back up again, without any food or dink involved. It was frustrating and the aches in my body tell me that it wasn't appreciated. I know this is a common complaint for diabetics so I also know there isn't an easy solution for the yoyoing. It seems to rely on too many vague variables. You just have to treat as you can and carry on. Channel your Inner Brit, I guess. In the meanwhile, today has been a washout.
Tomorrow I have errands to run. I "killed" the chip on my bank card and will have to go in to get a new one. I hate the hassle of switching over the new specs on my card for each account I have at stores and apps but it beats the alternative. Later in the evening I plan on sewing and baking, which I'd meant to do today. Nothing is dire though so I won't be stressing about missing getting any of it done.
We had planned on just "hanging out". There is no archery going on, so my spouse has nothing to do but help set things up and tear them back down again. This is good, in that if he couldn't be busy at least part of the time he wouldn't want to go. "Just visiting with friends" is not his idea of a fun event. We're planning on bringing our new-ish pop-up and testing out the new walls I bought for it. It didn't come with walls and we need at least one sun & wind break. I'd originally purchased patterned shower curtains to use for that but even though their black patterning on the white cloth is somewhat correct-to-period for woven design, I don't like them. I'd only purchased two, just enough to lap over each other and cover one side of the shelter. During the winter I got a wild hair and bought three red walls (the roof is a pagoda style in red and black, our household colors) so this will give us a chance to try out the walls and see if they work. It isn't easy to find walls for a 12x12 pop-up after the fact. And I know that red walls are not the best choice - a Pennsic mayor once bought a huge black and red pavilion to use in for the motor pool and it was a disaster because of how the sun shining through shaded everything red. It is now used as (I think) the "noisy tent" out near the battlefield, for musicians. Anyway, I'm not too worried about what things will look like in our interior since we'll only be using one wall at a time to shade/shield, and the few times that we put all three of them up it will be because it is raining, when the interior is going to be murky anyway. On those occasions we'll use the two shower curtains as "drapes" for the open side, which should look nice. But first to make sure that the walls actually can attach to and fit the sides. It is going to suck if we get there and find out that the walls don't work on a drippy day!
Weather and pollen have combined to make me grumpy and sore for a while now. But I had a fabulous day yesterday after sleeping for 13 hours (!) and waking up at a normal time for those who live day-focused lives. I got so much done! Went to bed all chipper and happy planning more to do today after I'd wake up, then struggled to get to sleep and finally succeeded sometime after 3am. Urg. My glucose monitor's alarm did not wake me up so far as I can remember but I did wake up a few hours later at a dangerously low level. It read 41. It doesn't register lower than that so I don't know how low my count was. Drank apple juice and ate a package of peanut-butter crackers (nasty. I must have bought the wrong brand) and things improved so I went back to sleep. Woke up to my count almost at 300, then it dropped down to stupid-low again, and back up again, without any food or dink involved. It was frustrating and the aches in my body tell me that it wasn't appreciated. I know this is a common complaint for diabetics so I also know there isn't an easy solution for the yoyoing. It seems to rely on too many vague variables. You just have to treat as you can and carry on. Channel your Inner Brit, I guess. In the meanwhile, today has been a washout.
Tomorrow I have errands to run. I "killed" the chip on my bank card and will have to go in to get a new one. I hate the hassle of switching over the new specs on my card for each account I have at stores and apps but it beats the alternative. Later in the evening I plan on sewing and baking, which I'd meant to do today. Nothing is dire though so I won't be stressing about missing getting any of it done.
