The Good Ship White Star

So, I hadn't planned on fighting in the Queen's Champion tourney, what with the newborn and all, but as the tournament neared, I couldn't help myself, Edward has always been an inspiration to me (can't imagine why) and I've heard such great things about them from my good friends, like Gull and Viv. I've also gotten reports of them really trying to get to know the rapier community and the fighters there and I wanted to make sure they had a good liaison. I figured that even

So I worked the last 2 days on a new cook table for the camp. Since I was working up plans on the fly (my CAD computer took a dumper) it has been a little more challenging than I would have liked with more scrap wood than I'm comfortable leaving. Fortunately, I bought way too much of the oak so I didn't have any supply issues. Well, we'll have some nice hard wood to add to the fire at the beaching anyway. I'm no were near done at this point. The bottom section is fabricated but needs a lot of sanding and then staining. I've not eve begun to work out the upper portion and associated lighting.

Done and done; dusacks for the Cap'n. Easy project, just about anyone could make these, provided you've a drill, a jig saw and an angle grinder with a sanding wheel.
Eric/camp perimeter pole project had become quite long in the tooth so since I was already out in the shed with the tools out I drilled the holes for the spikes in the wooden poles, cut the heads off the spikes and pounded them into the holes. So easy I don't know why I've been dragging my feet on this one.

I just came in and cleaned up from making the post mods suggested by our good captain as well as making 2 more of the short uprights for the middle sides (stole them from the 3DC day shade and cut them to length as we, the 3DC, hardly ever used all 8 anyway). All looks well with the new shade now but Kings hunt will be the true test. Who's in to giver her a good work out... No need to reply, I'm just say'n! This will end the posts on the topic unless it fails utterly at the hunt or someone has questions.

Congratulations to THL Eilidh Swann, who won the Bard of Caid competition last Saturday!

Huzzah! Yar fertar!

Well, I'm a little slow on the report here but here goes anyway. Jan 1, 2008 we put up the new day shade. It went quite easily. Picks have been put up already so I'll not bother here. I need to rework the vertical poles as the hinge design I settled on will not be sufficient. The easiest fix will be a simple pin and hole set up so that's the rout I'm heading in. I like the looks of it and the size is just great. We can all easily fit under it and the long dags on the side should provide shade well toward dusk. Thanks to the Cap'n and Momma Cat for the kind words as well.

• Lots better/more garb
• Sew more garb for other people, too
• Improve the Coffee Bar / Dayshade look
• Finish the ropes / tassels project
• Do lots of Pentathlon work
• Upload lots of photo albums
• Write (and post) more persona stories

That should keep me busy. *grin*

1. Get our Pentathlon team organized and start working on projects.
1a. Work on a Caid Sciences Day project.
2. Sew. I haven't in ages and I am in pretty dire need of garb. Preferably persona-appropriate, but can I help it that I lurv Tudor dresses? And Vikings? And Persian? And German? And Italian? And... You get the picture.
3. Set spinning goals and work towards them.
3a. Pay attention to what I am doing (no zoning out) and work towards even-ness throughout. 3b. Practice woolen vs worsted and with different fibers and pay attention to the differences in feel and in the end result.

Well, that wasn't so hard...

I cut to length, routerified to shape, drilled to fit and stained to match all the wood then assembled them into their 3 major components. All in one day, all by myself. Hey, I'm getting good at this shite. Well, good enough anyway.

All that needs doing now for the shade is the first set up so I can work out any kinks that may be in the design and cut the ropes to length. Oh, I need to pick up some spikes too, but I'll get those around the corner from practice on Tuesday.