It lives!
I am still alive -- just been busy and monumentally tired. The 1st was my birthday, which we spent camping in the mountains East of Granite Falls, at an
SCA event.
As part of the SCA event, the husband and I made a giant wild pig pinata. We made it over the course of about six weeks; we were given a base spine, legs, and head from the last year's pig, but had to build up a rib cage, muscles, etc. It wound up being a pretty serious commitment, and honestly took a lot more time than I was expecting. That said, it turned out okay:
We didn't do too much at the event itself -- mostly we relaxed at either our camp, or our friend's camp.
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| We were camped out by the river, which was lovely. |
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| Cooking up some mushrooms and bacon, yum! |
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| Can you see the salmonberry they are looking at? |
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| Oz was given this, and was very excited to show it off. |
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| Saffron and I hanging out. |
At Saturday court, the husband received his award of arms, in recognition of his involvement in encouraging new members. The award grants him the right to be styled officially as "Lord", the right to wear a circlet, and elevates his device to an actual coat of arms. I was very happy to be able to see him get this award -- I've missed the ceremony for every other award he's received (not on purpose!).
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| Being granted the award by our baron and baroness. |
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| The actual declaration of the award. |
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| All of the kids at the event were called up as well, to be given gifts -- it seems that our new baron and baroness are very interested in encouraging the involvement of families. Unfortunately, there were so many children that they ran out of gifts before my boys had their turn, so they took the kids names and tracked us down later in the day. It was very kind of them. |
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| The husband, wearing his new circlet. I told him to look regal -- did it work? |
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| Us with our pig's head, post-pinata-beating. |
