s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

This weekend was an entertainment whirlwind. On Saturday we hosted the Two Sisters Cast&Crew party. We had no idea how many people would show up, guessing 10-40, so we got enough food for about 20. In total 15 people showed up… BUT they brought enough food for another 20-25 people. After stuffing ourselves silly we still ended up with a fridge full of food. Today I do creative repacking in the fridge and freezer, but I know that sausages are going to be a dinnertime staple for some weeks to come.

In the “The World is THIS SMALL” department: that evening we were listening to Broadside Electric as nice background music. Liz commented how the music remindered her of another American Folk band, one whose lead singer had been visitng them just a few months ago. But you know, we had probably never heard of (wait for it!) Einsteins Little Homonculus. (For those of you how don’t know, Broadside and ELH are friends with other, and have played together in Boston/Philadelpia crossover tours. Tam went to college with many of the orginal members of BE. Go 10,000 km, and be only 2-degrees of separation away from Club Passim! Weird world.

So, Sunday was our first “SCA-Day-O-Fun” with fighting, archery, and other stuff planned. The weather made fighting less than palatable, so we bagged it. Illness and real-world commitments also cut down the expected number of participats (and those that did come were force fed leftover food from Saturday). In all we had 7 people, and a great time was had. We gave the new archery target a go, and I got to use (for the first time) my new Yumi “Hubris Bow”. I found that I can pull a 78# bow more easily than when I got it 8 months ago, demonstrating the conditioning power of farm work. But after 24 shots my fingers and shoulders were complaining. I did discover that 25 meters is too short a range, as it was damaging the target (blowing chunks out of the target vinyl where the 50# bow was just punching nice little holes). At 45 meters it was an easy nice shoot. And from 80 m it was still following a nice flat tragectory. I want to give it a go at 150-200 meters, as I have never had a chance to target-shoot at that range- and that was the whole reason I got such an overkill bow! Plus an 80# bow is about an average “war bow” from midaevel times, so it is interesting to get a feel for what such weapons were like.

Tam and Jennifer spent much of the day working on Heraldry-things, gently proding me along towards getting a name and device registered.