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Jul. 8th, 2023 11:09 pmIt was a day for cutting out hood & mantles. Got four hoods cut out and five linings - yeah, that was strange but it is how the fabric worked out. I might save the extra lining to use on something for ourselves. These are to give as bribes to mercenaries at Pennsic. They are getting four full Viking era outfits; trous, leg wraps, tunics, and hoods. I don't know how many of them are in their household or how they are going to divide their take. My job is just to make the hood & mantles. It took me a while to cut them out. I had to keep taking a break so my back would stop hurting. I really should invest in a tall table for cutting out fabric.
We went to Target today where I picked up a strange little lidded basket to take to Pennsic. I was going to include a link to it but they don't have it up online, probably because it is in their shelves by the front door, those ones where they stock ever changing impulse-buying items. It is a good size for sunscreen, Motrin, and Tylenol - the stuff we want handy to grab but is so unsightly in the "salon" section of our "medieval" tent. It will be experimental. Bringing a basket is fraught with risk of angering the man who is not careful with items to be loaded and unloaded from our truck. And who hates, absolutely, baskets with rigid handles so "basket" is a dirty word even without handles.
KFC shares a parking lot with our Target so I went wild and got a chicken pot pie. I like them. I know it is very plebian of me but I am okay with that.
Arni was up and in the front yard almost as soon as the sun started to show. He sorted out all of the loose branches from our downed tree and put them in separate piles so the city's garbage service will pick them up. They have rules about the dimensions of what they will haul away. Then he re-piled what is left of the now-firewood. We both had posted a "curb alert" about it being there and one guy came out and hauled away about half of what had been stacked up but he made a mess as he sorted what he wanted. Arni cleaned that up and added to it by slicing parts of the huge trunk off with his new chainsaw. It is hard to tell by looking at the trunk that he'd sliced any of it except that the wood pile which had been about half a cord is now closer to a full cord. And we still have a piece of trunk wood about five feet long and a solid three feet in diameter. He managed to get the last edge of it away from the stump sticking out of the ground - there isn't much sticking up, honestly. It seems to have sheared off very close to the ground. I anticipate that more trunk "shaving" will happen over the next few days.
We went to Target today where I picked up a strange little lidded basket to take to Pennsic. I was going to include a link to it but they don't have it up online, probably because it is in their shelves by the front door, those ones where they stock ever changing impulse-buying items. It is a good size for sunscreen, Motrin, and Tylenol - the stuff we want handy to grab but is so unsightly in the "salon" section of our "medieval" tent. It will be experimental. Bringing a basket is fraught with risk of angering the man who is not careful with items to be loaded and unloaded from our truck. And who hates, absolutely, baskets with rigid handles so "basket" is a dirty word even without handles.
KFC shares a parking lot with our Target so I went wild and got a chicken pot pie. I like them. I know it is very plebian of me but I am okay with that.
Arni was up and in the front yard almost as soon as the sun started to show. He sorted out all of the loose branches from our downed tree and put them in separate piles so the city's garbage service will pick them up. They have rules about the dimensions of what they will haul away. Then he re-piled what is left of the now-firewood. We both had posted a "curb alert" about it being there and one guy came out and hauled away about half of what had been stacked up but he made a mess as he sorted what he wanted. Arni cleaned that up and added to it by slicing parts of the huge trunk off with his new chainsaw. It is hard to tell by looking at the trunk that he'd sliced any of it except that the wood pile which had been about half a cord is now closer to a full cord. And we still have a piece of trunk wood about five feet long and a solid three feet in diameter. He managed to get the last edge of it away from the stump sticking out of the ground - there isn't much sticking up, honestly. It seems to have sheared off very close to the ground. I anticipate that more trunk "shaving" will happen over the next few days.
