weekend
Despite all the last minute challenges for the staff, I thought K&Q Rattan went very well. Only one merchant because of a snafu with the town, but the rattan and archery tourneys went well and the participants all enjoyed themselves.
Many good conversations -- never enough time of course, but still. A particular pleasure was seeing Josephine, Hemeor's lady, who I haven't seen in ages. She's still in school in the Midwest, becoming a doctor. Looking lovely and a lot less stressed, so I think she's really coming into her own.
Court was not too long and quite interesting. GNEW next week will be a "succession war", with the current king and queen having declared their daughter their successor, and the crown prince and princess contesting this -- sort of a Stephen and Maude kind of thing. The discussion of this between the royal pairs was entertaining ;)
Healthwise, I need to work on remembering not to eat all treats offered by friends, but when I'm tired I still forget. Had a "medieval" ice cream sandwich Saturday night (ice cream sliced and put between two pizelles). The quality of the ingredients helped to make it less worse than it could have been, and I think the anise in the pizzelles helped too. Still feeling the effects of the weekend this morning, for sure.
Cooler today. This week, will work on getting a few more herbs from the south garden lifted and into pots. And get some more ginger into the ground -- should have been done a while ago, but well, at least they're still alive. Fortunately ginger is pretty good at hanging in there!
Many good conversations -- never enough time of course, but still. A particular pleasure was seeing Josephine, Hemeor's lady, who I haven't seen in ages. She's still in school in the Midwest, becoming a doctor. Looking lovely and a lot less stressed, so I think she's really coming into her own.
Court was not too long and quite interesting. GNEW next week will be a "succession war", with the current king and queen having declared their daughter their successor, and the crown prince and princess contesting this -- sort of a Stephen and Maude kind of thing. The discussion of this between the royal pairs was entertaining ;)
Healthwise, I need to work on remembering not to eat all treats offered by friends, but when I'm tired I still forget. Had a "medieval" ice cream sandwich Saturday night (ice cream sliced and put between two pizelles). The quality of the ingredients helped to make it less worse than it could have been, and I think the anise in the pizzelles helped too. Still feeling the effects of the weekend this morning, for sure.
Cooler today. This week, will work on getting a few more herbs from the south garden lifted and into pots. And get some more ginger into the ground -- should have been done a while ago, but well, at least they're still alive. Fortunately ginger is pretty good at hanging in there!