Early Thursday afternoon jmaynard and I started out for Fargo, ND because, well, we had time, he had never been to North Dakota, and the weather while cold wasn't expected to be stormy. On the way we stopped at Burghardt in Watertown, SD for a while.

It was quite cold and we saw sundogs when we left Watertown. A while after sunset, for a brief time, we ( Read more... )

The Martin Luther College Renaissance Faire was today. My folks are visiting this weekend so they could attend this faire. When that was first suggested I was concerned they'd come a great distance for very little.

We got our start a bit early, which was good as I either misinterpreted the MLCRF web site's map or didn't make the same assumption ( Read more... )

I got home, changed, and checking the time we decided that dining in New Ulm was workable. Another visit to the Kaiserhoff, and while I did try another of Schell's products, I didn't have anything just too heavy to eat as I opted for the special: salmon. That went well enough and we expected we might be just a couple minutes late.

Then we got ( Read more... )

Tonight jmaynard and I will be going to New Ulm to see the Martin Luther College Renaissance Festival folks at one of their weekly meetings. This time we'll be dressing for it, which means when I get home I get to change. This, as Jay pointed out this noon, takes a bit of time, which might well cause a sufficient delay that we would miss the start of ( Read more... )

I saw a notice for a new faire (Warning: The site is hosted on Tripod so don't expect it to work right and do expect it to be spammy) in New Ulm. I'm a bit concerned that this is the "Martin Luther College Renaissance Faire" and they need to use a Tripod web site.

It's scheduled for May 6 which seems a bit early in the year for the latitude. ( Read more... )