I find myself being rather excited to go shopping for rattan at War Practice coming up. I'm just itching to get back into heavy weapons fighting, seeing as I haven't done any all year, which is almost half over already. Friends will guide me to the ways of getting proper sticks from which to fashion a naginata (pole-arm) and perhaps two katana ( ( Read more... )

We had our A&S gathering last night at the house, and I thought it went very well. We spoke of judging as it relates to SCAdian arts&science entries, what it is, how we approach it if we do it, what it should be, and what we want as an entrant. Folks from various disciplines were there, which made it a nice cross-section of our local A&S ( Read more... )

I was psyched to get to field herald at crown for the first time in at least two years, and only blew one name (who eventually won- heh). The winning battle was wicked. Two swords each, Master Robyn Wallace, who had legged Sir Angeus (sp?) MacBain, was dancing around. Then, he jumped in the air, crossed his swords and when coming down sliced ( Read more... )

We're going to crown tourney tomorrow, and I'll get to field herald and herald for court! Whee! I haven't done that in a long time, and I've never heralded for a kingdom court. Should be fun! It better not rain, too ( Read more... )

So, went to Baronial 12thnight yesterday after church. There was a lot more going on than I thought there'd be, which I think to be a good thing. Especially for a garb-optional event. I watched Lake for a while, who was having so much fun with Elizabeth and other kids there, and looking so damn cute in the dress that Mikoy made her. We shared pasta ( Read more... )

I just wanna take a nap right now ( Read more... )

The weekend was great. As my sweetie fiannaharpar mentioned, it was way too long since we've seen the Buffalo crowd, and hope to never wait that long before going up there again ( Read more... )

So, I went to the Bog Chaos last weekend, and I got to talk with Katja (I forget her LJ id) which was neat. What follows is part of an email I sent to her, just talking about what I want to do in the SCA.

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