[Ansteorra] Pyromaniacs Unite!

Marcha nigsdaughter at satx.rr.com
Mon Feb 11 20:41:40 PST 2008 

Guess my geo. prof was wrong...thanks for showing me the spelling of the 
thing.. Plus I spent quite a bit of time in my Pow-wow days in Llano and 
believe me, it is not flat.....
Shalom,
Bertha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan McMahill" <sueorintx at hotmail.com>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Pyromaniacs Unite!


> Actually, I don't think that the town of Llano is in the Llano Estacado. 
> The L.E. is considerably to the north and west and covers most of the 
> panhandle and the western portion of the state, west of Abilene. The map 
> shown in this wiki article shows it pretty dramatically. The really flat 
> section is the Llano Estacado. Llano means flat or plain. I suspect that 
> the town of Llano is in a flat area of the Edwards Plateau, not the Llano 
> Estacado.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_Estacado
>
> Lyneya de Grey...whose other passion is geology.
> Well-behaved women Seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
>
>
>
>> From: nigsdaughter at satx.rr.com> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: 
>> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:07:32 -0600> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Pyromaniacs 
>> Unite!> > Please excuse what I am about to say, I am not in the least 
>> trying to be > smart but Llano is in Llano County and is located on the 
>> Llano river and is > located in the Llano Es....rats, can't spell, it but 
>> it is a geological term > about rocks, really ancient rocks.> > I live in 
>> San Antonio and to get to Llano from here, I would take I10W to > (I 
>> beliieve it is IS16) turn right at the signage that says there be > 
>> Fredericksburg and follow said highway to Llano. It, Llano, is in 
>> northwest > Texas. It is beautiful and from app. April to May the country 
>> side is awash > in Bluebonnets.> > FYI, the folk who live there pronounce 
>> their city Lano not Yano.> > Some of the rock formations in the general 
>> area are absolutely gorgeous and > just south of Llano is the Texas 
>> version of Ayres Rock. It is called > "Enchanted Rock" and it is
>  fun to climb. Almost forgot, Llano is home to , > my geology prof. told 
> us this, the only blue crystal in these parts.> > Hope this helps a bit,> 
> Bertha von Caffei, Bjornsborg> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr. 
> C. M. Helm-Clark Ph.D." <cat at rocks4brains.com>> To: 
> <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:41 PM> 
> Subject: [Ansteorra] Pyromaniacs Unite!> > > > Good evening, gentle 
> cousins,> >> > I can find no fault and certain much to praise in the> > 
> nine days that I have been a subject of this fair> > kingdom. But since 
> these funny flowery phrases are a bit> > of a stretch for me, even on good 
> days, let us now do> > without them and get back to plain speaking:> >> > 
> the hospitality that I and my husband have received> > since we got here 
> (to quote someone I overheard this> > weekend at kingdom A&S) certainly 
> does not suck.> >> > or to put it otherwise:> >> > golly gee wowee!> >> > 
> Having been waylaid...well, maybe not waylaid, per se,> > but
> definately subject to the undiluted attention of> > a certain laurel from 
> Bryn Gwlad (did I spell that> > right?), it has come to my notice that 
> there may be> > a few other folks around here other than myself who might> 
>  > be interested in one of my favorite SCA hobbies: making> > iron, from 
> rocks, in a bloomery, with lots of charcoal> > and lots and lots and lots 
> and lots of FIRE!!!> >> > Bwahahahahahahah!!!!!!> >> > ...ahem, excuse me, 
> cough cough, hack...ok, I'm better> > now, really, I'm fine, really...> >> 
>  > as I was saying, lots of fun with reducing flames in a> > early to mid 
> Medieval bloomery furnace built to torture> > innocent little rocks that 
> never hurt anyone or even fleas> > before and turning them into "blooms," 
> which are tortured> > further to make them into wrought iron.> >> > If you 
> have been to Pennsic, you may have seen people> > there who do something 
> like this... The folks who do the> > bloomeries at Pennsic are the folks 
> who taught me (and> > when I can
>  make it to Pennsic, you'll find me down at> > the furnaces, cranking the 
> bellows or mixing cob or> > shovelling charcoal and rocks). I'm still on 
> the learning> > curve in leading my own smelting crew but I get better 
> all> > the time and with good enough advance notice, the experts> > from 
> Pennsic will come and teach and help too if at all> > possible. It's a 
> conspiracy, you see, to get all sorts> > of otherwise untainted SCA folks 
> and turn them into maniac> > metal geeks who gather in the dark of night 
> and play with> > lots and lots of fire...> >> > I'm not advertising for a 
> crew yet (and I already have> > two volunteers without trying...must me a 
> lot of fellow> > metalgeeks hiding down here... ;). However, I do need> > 
> some help. The first thing you need to smelt iron is a> > pile of iron 
> ore. I have an excellent site to collect> > iron ore but it's a two day 
> drive from here... So I have> > been researching potential locations 
> within a reasonable> > drive from Raven's Fort
> , which is where we are moving to.> > And to that end, I have some 
> questions. First: could> > someone please tell my geographically 
> challenged self where> > Rusk or Cass counties are? And where is LLano? I 
> do know> > where the Guadalupe mountains are, but how long a drive is> > 
> it from Raven's Fort/Stargate to get there?> >> > Last, and this will take 
> some thinking on someone's part,> > is that every bloomery needs a home. A 
> bloomery needs> > about a 40 feet square to be safe. You build them out> > 
> of cob, and sometimes, cob on a willow frame depending on> > your soil, 
> and they are not permanent. They get built,> > fired and then knocked down 
> to recover the iron bloom.> > They have a life of two to four days max. 
> But they need> > a home during their short existence where they won't set> 
>  > the world around them on fire or evoke the wrath of the> > homeowner's 
> association or the inner city fire marshal...> > If you think you might 
> have an adequate home for a few> > days for a
> bloomery and the pyromaniacs who will feed it> > rocks and charcoal, 
> please contemplate if you could possibly> > host such a thing and when it 
> might be possible.> >> > You can find pictures of the bloomery I and a few 
> pyromaniacs> > from Artemisia and An Tir built and fired this last June 
> at:> > http://groups.google.com/group/metalgeeks/files> > There are 
> pictures of the building and firing plus some> > pictures of one of the 
> trips to find and collect the iron> > ore we used in the furnace. This 
> should give you a good idea> > of what's involved. (ok, we cheated, we 
> collected magnetite> > and since we lacked a horde of peasants to dig us 
> an iron mine> > on the plans of Agricola, we used old speaker magnets we 
> dragged> > around behind us on string... ;)> >> > Thank you for your time 
> and attention.> >> > ttfn> > Therasia, metalgeek, new to town> >> >> >> >> 
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