That's right, kiddies! It's the return of Izzy's (& Peire & Rachel's) Halloween Open House Party! Here's all the details ( Read more... )

I've only been away from acting as a living history interpreter at Mission San Luis since mid-May (when the heat started to really get to my expectant self), but I had started to forget what fun it truly is to be out in the reconstructions onsite and talking to the visitors that come through. These last few days back "in the rig", so to speak, have ( Read more... )

This summer, I've been working (or not working) in stages. For a decent amount of June I was completely away from work on maternity leave. Then I did a work-from-home thing for all of June and a portion of the months on either side. Technically I started back to work at MSL full-time last Friday, but since Friday was a Volunteer Coordinator and ( Read more... )

Happy May Day! I'm off this morning to the Oldenfeld Anniversary/Baronial Investiture event -- I'll be taking Dad with me, and meeting Peire there. Recently I was having a discussion with someone over the concept of medieval maternity clothes; my conversant was of the mind that there really was no difference between a regular wardrobe and a ( Read more... )

Today finished up the final performance of Capital City Shakespeare's Macbeth at the Young Actors' Theatre, and a fine time was had by all! There was some background drama in the beginning of the production (various cast replacements, for various shadowy reasons), but once we got into the actual theatrical run, things really pulled together. In the ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everyone! As always, things have been better with work, family and my other extracurricular activities. At Mission San Luis, the unseemly warm winter we've been having makes it very easy to be cheery outside, but I wonder if the 70-degree weather is going to affect the garden planting we start to do in February. At home, Mom & Dad ( Read more... )

Things have been going busily but pleasantly through Holiday Season 2008 here! I successfully sent greeting cards to many out-of-town family members & friends (although _geekie_, I think I must have an outdated address for you, since your card came back to me with a chastising note upon it from the postal service), I hosted my family's gift-opening ( Read more... )

Once again, I slip into bad habits and do not update my journal. So, I play catchup again. This has been a busy month!

( I made my 'Macbeth' deadline! )

Okay, I've got an amusing Mission San Luis tour story for y'all today. We've got a group of 4th graders that are sitting down on the benches where we give the brief introduction to the site -- and it so happens today that the Introducer is Brent, who plays our Franciscan Friar. This means that he wears a long brown cassock robe, and today it was ( Read more... )

I've been remiss in posting lately, partly due to feeling under the weather and partly due to busy work and play schedules.

( MSL News )