Finally; coffee on the deck!
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grnvixenSo sunday I finally got to enjoy morning coffee on the deck for the first time in a long time. A combination of weather, schedule and health had meant no deck time for over a month. I enjoyed it :).
I was another renfaire widow this weekend while Himself was down at White Hart with the LMC. I was really worried about folks in the heat on saturday but it appears all were smart enough to take precautions and survived. The front that blew throw the area saturday night also cooled them down and it sounds like sunday was a lot more enjoyable for everyone.
Heat did not stop Himself from shopping however and on saturday he found me a lovely surprise gift at one of the crafters; a copper glazed raku pot decorated with gingko leaves. Does he know me or what :). It is really very lovely and I think calls for reorganizing the mantle to properly display it.
Otherwise the weekend was quiet. Ran errands on saturday with the houself, found a good sale on something I needed at JoAnns (like, when isn't there going to be something there I need) and then a small, but good score, at a thrift store. Almost thought one of our favorites had moved further out down the road but it is actually a few blocks closer, reopens Jul 11. Sunday I never went out of the house (except to enjoy the back deck :) ) and spent the whole day doing laundry and trying to get all the piles of misc. crap that build-up at this time of year under control. Didn't do to bad a job if I do say so myself. The dining room table is still full of boxes, but I know what is in them now :). Definitely need to organize a bunch of stuff for eBay soon though.
The last week has been rough for a couple of losses, and not the ones in the headlines. Cut for length.....
Every one was home, starting laundry but still feeling the glow from Lilies when we got word that had lost one of the founding members of our Barony: Sir Ternon de Caerleon. Ternon had not been playing SCA very much for several years but thanks to the online forums had kept in touch with a lot of folks. He was one of the fighters I watched at my first renfaire, and I also watched him fight in our first principality tournament, and become Calontir's first prince. Several years after that we were baronial officers together. Folks have been telling a lot of great stories (like the time he rode his bike to Pennsic, got injured and couldn't ride it home, so it was duct taped to the back of the Vatavian bus...) and I expect more at the memorial on friday. It will be a sad time, remembering the loss, but a good time for memories.
This morning I had email from my sister that an old friend of my father's had passed away. Don Coldsmith was in my folks wedding, and attended ours. He was a family Doctor in Emporia (graduate of KUMC) but retired in the mid-eighties to follow a life-long dream of writing westerns. He was successful at this and was at a writer's conference in OKC the weekend before last when he suffered a stroke and passed away last week. Don's kids were all girls and about the same ages as my sisters and I so we all hung out together a lot as kids when the adults got together. They had horses, which I was quite envious of :), and later bought my second horse, an Appaloosa mare, from them. We went trailriding in the Flint Hills with them at the Y camp my folks had first met at, and both my Dad and Don had been a part of getting it reenergized in the late 80's. Don did a lot of public speaking, especially on American Indian culture, and middle-sis and I were able to suprise him when he spoke here at KUMC several years ago. The last time I talked with Don was when I called to tell him we had lost my father.
Sigh, as Bette Davis said; growing old is not for sissies..
I was another renfaire widow this weekend while Himself was down at White Hart with the LMC. I was really worried about folks in the heat on saturday but it appears all were smart enough to take precautions and survived. The front that blew throw the area saturday night also cooled them down and it sounds like sunday was a lot more enjoyable for everyone.
Heat did not stop Himself from shopping however and on saturday he found me a lovely surprise gift at one of the crafters; a copper glazed raku pot decorated with gingko leaves. Does he know me or what :). It is really very lovely and I think calls for reorganizing the mantle to properly display it.
Otherwise the weekend was quiet. Ran errands on saturday with the houself, found a good sale on something I needed at JoAnns (like, when isn't there going to be something there I need) and then a small, but good score, at a thrift store. Almost thought one of our favorites had moved further out down the road but it is actually a few blocks closer, reopens Jul 11. Sunday I never went out of the house (except to enjoy the back deck :) ) and spent the whole day doing laundry and trying to get all the piles of misc. crap that build-up at this time of year under control. Didn't do to bad a job if I do say so myself. The dining room table is still full of boxes, but I know what is in them now :). Definitely need to organize a bunch of stuff for eBay soon though.
The last week has been rough for a couple of losses, and not the ones in the headlines. Cut for length.....
Every one was home, starting laundry but still feeling the glow from Lilies when we got word that had lost one of the founding members of our Barony: Sir Ternon de Caerleon. Ternon had not been playing SCA very much for several years but thanks to the online forums had kept in touch with a lot of folks. He was one of the fighters I watched at my first renfaire, and I also watched him fight in our first principality tournament, and become Calontir's first prince. Several years after that we were baronial officers together. Folks have been telling a lot of great stories (like the time he rode his bike to Pennsic, got injured and couldn't ride it home, so it was duct taped to the back of the Vatavian bus...) and I expect more at the memorial on friday. It will be a sad time, remembering the loss, but a good time for memories.
This morning I had email from my sister that an old friend of my father's had passed away. Don Coldsmith was in my folks wedding, and attended ours. He was a family Doctor in Emporia (graduate of KUMC) but retired in the mid-eighties to follow a life-long dream of writing westerns. He was successful at this and was at a writer's conference in OKC the weekend before last when he suffered a stroke and passed away last week. Don's kids were all girls and about the same ages as my sisters and I so we all hung out together a lot as kids when the adults got together. They had horses, which I was quite envious of :), and later bought my second horse, an Appaloosa mare, from them. We went trailriding in the Flint Hills with them at the Y camp my folks had first met at, and both my Dad and Don had been a part of getting it reenergized in the late 80's. Don did a lot of public speaking, especially on American Indian culture, and middle-sis and I were able to suprise him when he spoke here at KUMC several years ago. The last time I talked with Don was when I called to tell him we had lost my father.
Sigh, as Bette Davis said; growing old is not for sissies..
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Date: 2009-06-29 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-29 07:44 pm (UTC)I was holding my post about my pottery purchase till I had heard you'd seen yours. SO pretty! I'm glad you like it!
As long as we remember them
Date: 2009-06-29 09:53 pm (UTC)We lost Julie Hise Sunday morning, but we were expecting it. It was a race for which system was going to quit, she had an endocrine carcinoma that had pretty much gone all over her body.
I have a Pennsic memory of Ternon that aren;t exactly repeatable in a family audience. I'm going to pass this news on to Rohanna.
Re: As long as we remember them
Date: 2009-06-30 02:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-30 03:21 am (UTC)The pottery sounds lovely.....picture?
The last 12 months have been rough on personnel; I suggest a shore leave. Let's see if the two really terrific guys who got together to save the Universe can order us all some....