YAWN!
We had a nice time for most of MTT. We arrived at dark on Friday and set up the tents, than ran out to Walmart in Roxboro for yogurt and munchies and a flashlight. I didn’t sleep well at all on Friday night. My sleep apnea makes me feel like I’m drowning all night and I wake up every 20 minutes or so. But I was up bright and early Sat. morning, took a shower and had some breakfast. Tiernen slept like a rock and was still snoozing at 9:00 when we finally roused him. The site was pretty, with a lake and resident geese. We hiked over to the stables to catch some of the equestrian events. They were still signing in some visitors to the site and seemed to be having trouble getting the non-SCA people to understand why they had to sign the SCA waivers, so nothing much was going on. We then hiked back to watch the hounds coursing. That was pretty wonderful. There were four greyhounds who were amazing to watch as they tore around the roughly “L” shaped course. The lure was a plastic garbage bag on a cord stretched along the ground around some pulleys. The people at the end of the course were operating a little winch that pulled in the rope and the dogs followed about 10-20′ behind. The corners caused them to overshoot and make a big turn to correct which I think kept them from catching the lure. All the dogs were wearing muzzles which kept them from hurting themselves should they actually catch up to the lure.
After the coursing was the feast, very delicious and not the usual SCA “rain of food” as it was a midday thing. Then Tiernen went out to fence. I stayed to help wash dishes and then we moved into the kitchen to prepare our food fundraiser for the evening. I’m glad we did the pre-prep we did as the kitchen was pretty small and people were still coming and going. We did get done in time to start serving at 7:00. People were hungry and pretty generous, so I think we broke even. Many thanks to Kate and Jay, Danr and Isabel, and Kim and Don for all their help. And to Solveg for fixing the pig cooker and giving us his propane.
It was at this point that I wore out. My feet were killing me and I was feeling the definite effects of interrupted sleep the night before. Tiernen was my knight in fencing armor. He packed up the car and drove us both home, even though I kept snoozing the entire way home. We were in bed by three and very grateful to be there.
Yesterday I slept until 4:00, then got up, watched the Muppets and Frankenthumb, unpacked the car and went back to sleep.
Today, work! Still tired, though.
Sparkly Things 