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So here's my plans for free-time this week. I have lumber to make the collapsible camp bed for Pennsic (well, siderails and bedposts). Yay!! It's poplar, because it's cheap, and should hold me (and Eleanor - seemed a reasonable thing to account for, as 3-year olds are more easily accounted for than kept off beds), and there's documentation of poplar leaves being used in poltices back in the Middle Ages, but I don't know of any for furniture. However, cheap beat documentable. The Hardwood Store where I went had probably enough ebony for me to do documentable, however, it wasn't worth the cost :) Not for something that's having a lot of the ornateness stripped off to the point where it's a project I think I can handle.
Complicating this is the fact that I'm about 2/3 of the way through The Name of the Wind. It's a good book, and I've spent pretty much the entire weekend reading it. It was slow starting out, but now I really want to know how the main character got from where I am in the story to where he was when the story started (the first couple chapters were setting up for him narrating his story to a chronicler; there are interlude chapters of grown-up main character & other characters interacting)
Now I'm going to read some more, and then maybe I'll mark up the lumber for the first few steps...
Complicating this is the fact that I'm about 2/3 of the way through The Name of the Wind. It's a good book, and I've spent pretty much the entire weekend reading it. It was slow starting out, but now I really want to know how the main character got from where I am in the story to where he was when the story started (the first couple chapters were setting up for him narrating his story to a chronicler; there are interlude chapters of grown-up main character & other characters interacting)
Now I'm going to read some more, and then maybe I'll mark up the lumber for the first few steps...