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Aug. 23rd, 2022 05:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichI'm back to sleeping during the day and being awake at night. Pennsic time is so weird, that I am ready for bed by 8:00 in the evening and up without an alarm by 7:30. Well, except for the couple of cloudy days in the second week. I don't mean that I go to bed at 8:00, just that I am already winding down and thinking about it.
I'm doing laundry still, a week after getting home. We take so much fabric to the event. Clothes, bedding, curtains for our tent dividers and curtains for the big ger in the camp, sheet walls, towels for bath and for the kitchen, towels to cover/hid the contents of the open bins in the kitchen, cooler covers, covers for the gallon water jugs... a lot of fabric. It is all worth the hassle except during the two weeks following the event. Really, I ought to suck it up and go to a laundromat but the only ones near our home require their own brand of card to operate their machines, which you pay for and then can only load or reload with $20 at a time. The last time I used one I ended up giving the card to someone else there at the laundromat because I didn't have $15 worth of laundry still to do and was not taking the danged thing home with me to get lost somewhere in the house. Although it did feel nice to randomly brighten someone else's day.
A shopping bag I'd put into the washer came out a ragged mess. The canvas shredded all along three seam lines. I guess it is a good thing that the weakness showed up there instead of when it was full of groceries. I wonder if I ought to warn the base commissary that their shopping bags were made so poorly. Nah, they probably already know.
One of the best parts of being home is salads. Oh yes, yummy salads. Salads take up 'way too much room in a cooler or a small camping fridge so I don't indulge much during the vacation time. It would be nice if the event had a food merchant who sold salads since the weather is so hot. As I am typing I havethree four salads keeping cold in our fridge. One of them is going to be breakfast later on. Or dinner, depending on how you'd view my upside-down day.
A friend had an absolutely adorable little pot, cast iron with an enameled interior, at Pennsic and once I got home I ordered it for us. It is a tiny little thing. Can one call a cast iron pot "dainty"? It holds 17oz and comes with a wooden lid and a table protector. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JUZQ7WK?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details I ordered a slightly larger one after this one arrived. So our camping kit just got enhanced. I think one might end up as a 12thNight gift for someone we camp with on a regular basis. He is starting to create his own camp kitchen.
I'm doing laundry still, a week after getting home. We take so much fabric to the event. Clothes, bedding, curtains for our tent dividers and curtains for the big ger in the camp, sheet walls, towels for bath and for the kitchen, towels to cover/hid the contents of the open bins in the kitchen, cooler covers, covers for the gallon water jugs... a lot of fabric. It is all worth the hassle except during the two weeks following the event. Really, I ought to suck it up and go to a laundromat but the only ones near our home require their own brand of card to operate their machines, which you pay for and then can only load or reload with $20 at a time. The last time I used one I ended up giving the card to someone else there at the laundromat because I didn't have $15 worth of laundry still to do and was not taking the danged thing home with me to get lost somewhere in the house. Although it did feel nice to randomly brighten someone else's day.
A shopping bag I'd put into the washer came out a ragged mess. The canvas shredded all along three seam lines. I guess it is a good thing that the weakness showed up there instead of when it was full of groceries. I wonder if I ought to warn the base commissary that their shopping bags were made so poorly. Nah, they probably already know.
One of the best parts of being home is salads. Oh yes, yummy salads. Salads take up 'way too much room in a cooler or a small camping fridge so I don't indulge much during the vacation time. It would be nice if the event had a food merchant who sold salads since the weather is so hot. As I am typing I have
A friend had an absolutely adorable little pot, cast iron with an enameled interior, at Pennsic and once I got home I ordered it for us. It is a tiny little thing. Can one call a cast iron pot "dainty"? It holds 17oz and comes with a wooden lid and a table protector. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JUZQ7WK?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details I ordered a slightly larger one after this one arrived. So our camping kit just got enhanced. I think one might end up as a 12thNight gift for someone we camp with on a regular basis. He is starting to create his own camp kitchen.
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Date: 2022-08-23 01:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-29 03:39 am (UTC)The lack of salads, and really anything that is both nutritious and vegetarian, among the food vendors has been a longstanding Pennsic problem, alas. I do what I can with the limited resources of camping, but yes yes yes, getting back to salads after is wonderful.
(Our camp has a pair of small propane refrigerators as part of our kitchen setup, and yes I know how unusual that is, but that's for ~30 people in a normal year, 20 this year, and some of that space is reserved for that day's dinner cooks. I usually spend my share of that on compact stuff like carrots and hard-cooked eggs, not greens.)