Tacking vs Driving

Those of you who drive large vehicles will understand this post’s title.  It’s been raining buckets, pails, cats, dogs, wild mongeese and a few badgers over the last few days so the roads are covered and flooding has started in the low lying areas of our neighborhood. Add to that the large rectangular sail on wheels that is my van and this morning was more a lesson in tacking with the wind and water than it was driving on the roads.  Fortune smiled on me and I didn’t actually hydroplane but it was interesting having the back wheels trying to out race the front wheels on the highway this morning.  The weather reports are calling for freezing and snow overnight…. joy.

The holidays flew by this year.  It literally seemed like they were here and gone in the blink of an eye.   We got to visit with family and friends over Christmas.  We got to have a quiet evening to ourselves for New Years.  We missed those that weren’t able to be with us.  We cherished those we had with us, and we slept late when we could. 

The New Year’s project of making a new personal SCA banner got finished W00t!  I’ll post pictures.  It was warm and sunny enough on Sunday to go out and actually fight at fighter practice.   I had a really good time.  I got to work with a couple of new fighters. We also had enough people to do some melee fighting, which isn’t my favorite to say but it did help with the knocking the rust off the blade bits. 

January activities are starting to kick into high gear.  We’ve started cooking for Holly and Ivy in earnest.  Becca is a first time feastcrat and I’m having a good time watching her learn.  Ahhh memories.   The Nun’s Priest’s Tale and the Wife of Bath’s tale have been cast and rehearsals are going well.  Everyone should have down their parts really well by the time Black Gryphon gets here.  Having them done pantomime is interesting and rehearsals have been a scream with some of the stuff the actors have been coming up with to do.  I’m also catching up on all the data entry stuff that I’d let slide over the holidays.  (“hey there’s a light at the end of this tunnel… I hope it’s not a train.”)  Oh and there is always getting ready for Gulf Wars, the planning for tends to start pushing it’s way to the front of my brain about this time every year.  It’s going to be a really large camp this year 25+ people.  I think that it’s going to be a really terrific war.

At the end of January I get to go take another bead class at the John C Campbell school.   I’m really looking forward to it.  The class is being taught by the author of one of my favorite lamp-work bead books.  So hopefully I’ll learn lots.

Now I must return to plotting what I’m going to do if I get to have a snow day tomorrow. muwahahahaha…