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luciabI'm logged on at my brother's house in Akron, Ohio. Nice to be online.... confusing to be here in the middle of Pennsic, though. I had temporal dislocation when I got in the car and drove here.
The drive up wasn't bad, though it took about an hour longer than I expected. For some reason I thought it was about the same as the drive to my parent's house, which is 8 hours. Nope, it was 9+. I was fried when I got in. I stayed in Nia's tent Monday night and Her Excellency and other assorted ladies helped me set up my pavilion the next morning. I've never been in charge of setting it up before, so I learned a lot. Like, always set it up somewhere before the trip to see if you're missing anything. Someone had told me I was one pole short, but as it happens, I am FIVE poles short. Duh. Plus, it turns out there is a "door" if you know how to put it together, which I didn't, so the "door" space is at the exact back of the tent. Oops. It works, though, and it's simpler to deal than to change everything.
Tuesday was setting up, or at least getting everything in and findable. I was still tired, though, and didn't really make it organized inside till Wednesday. I wound up reading the immediately previous HP book to refresh my memory on Wed and Thursday, finishing the last few pages on Friday. Went to class Fri AM, packed up and left for Akron mid-afternoon. I've had a headachae most days, but it hasn't been bad. I'm going back on Sunday morning, planning to be back in plenty of time to see Declan fight in the Laurel's Tourney.
My brother's house.... oh, my GOD, is beautiful. Of course, it always is. This one was built in about 1917 and is of a style I've never seen in NC. It's like there's a "Northern style" house that wasn't built in the South. Weird. They have haunted antique shops for some pieces, other bits of furniture were built by our Dad, and Danny says some bits came from K-Mart. Wow. I knew Tar-zhay had some nice stuff but had no idea K-Mart did. I just love the way he puts colors and textures together, plus all the artwork they've collected. It turns out it was almost exactly a year ago that I came up here the first time. The animals (4 dogs, a cat, and a parrot) are calmer about my presence this time, fortunately. Not that the parrot does anything that suggests she remembers me, but the dogs are barking less and the cat wanted to stay with me last night.
For the first time ever at Pennsic, I found myself missing my cats. The first night I kept thinking about the kittens giving me those adoring looks and flopping over to get their bellies scratched. Awwwww.... it's been nice being able to pet the cat here. I needed a kittie fix.
I'd better get back downstairs. Just before I got online, Danny got a call.... the birthday (dinner?) that the D's thought was tomorrow is actually today and they were wondering why the guys haven't shown up yet. Daniel has some more to do on the b'day cake, and Danny is doing some minor house stuff, so I took the chance to come up and check online. Back to the family now. Ta.
The drive up wasn't bad, though it took about an hour longer than I expected. For some reason I thought it was about the same as the drive to my parent's house, which is 8 hours. Nope, it was 9+. I was fried when I got in. I stayed in Nia's tent Monday night and Her Excellency and other assorted ladies helped me set up my pavilion the next morning. I've never been in charge of setting it up before, so I learned a lot. Like, always set it up somewhere before the trip to see if you're missing anything. Someone had told me I was one pole short, but as it happens, I am FIVE poles short. Duh. Plus, it turns out there is a "door" if you know how to put it together, which I didn't, so the "door" space is at the exact back of the tent. Oops. It works, though, and it's simpler to deal than to change everything.
Tuesday was setting up, or at least getting everything in and findable. I was still tired, though, and didn't really make it organized inside till Wednesday. I wound up reading the immediately previous HP book to refresh my memory on Wed and Thursday, finishing the last few pages on Friday. Went to class Fri AM, packed up and left for Akron mid-afternoon. I've had a headachae most days, but it hasn't been bad. I'm going back on Sunday morning, planning to be back in plenty of time to see Declan fight in the Laurel's Tourney.
My brother's house.... oh, my GOD, is beautiful. Of course, it always is. This one was built in about 1917 and is of a style I've never seen in NC. It's like there's a "Northern style" house that wasn't built in the South. Weird. They have haunted antique shops for some pieces, other bits of furniture were built by our Dad, and Danny says some bits came from K-Mart. Wow. I knew Tar-zhay had some nice stuff but had no idea K-Mart did. I just love the way he puts colors and textures together, plus all the artwork they've collected. It turns out it was almost exactly a year ago that I came up here the first time. The animals (4 dogs, a cat, and a parrot) are calmer about my presence this time, fortunately. Not that the parrot does anything that suggests she remembers me, but the dogs are barking less and the cat wanted to stay with me last night.
For the first time ever at Pennsic, I found myself missing my cats. The first night I kept thinking about the kittens giving me those adoring looks and flopping over to get their bellies scratched. Awwwww.... it's been nice being able to pet the cat here. I needed a kittie fix.
I'd better get back downstairs. Just before I got online, Danny got a call.... the birthday (dinner?) that the D's thought was tomorrow is actually today and they were wondering why the guys haven't shown up yet. Daniel has some more to do on the b'day cake, and Danny is doing some minor house stuff, so I took the chance to come up and check online. Back to the family now. Ta.
