[Ansteorra-archery] Re:Archer's Revel

[Jen and David Shipman]

I would like to add my thanks to Middleford and Bryn Gwlad.  Archer's Revel
is always a good time!  Good food, good friends, and good shooting is the
order of the day!  Great baked apples, by the way.  And I feel really bad
about Robert's pretty new arrow.  Really.

Gee, I guess I should be getting reports from ALL those lovely Middleford
archery marshals for the work they did this weekend?!  <g>

Moreg


>
> Greetings Friends,
>   Many thanks to Arcus Gilli and HL Darcy for all their hard work,
> generosity, and hospitality in hosting Archer's Revel. It was all about
good food, good
> company, and good archery. Even the fickle Ansteorran weather did it's
part by
> bringing a breeze to push the dark clouds far from our happy gathering.
>   Our friends from down south in Bryn Gwlad put on a really fun
tournament,
> in which each archer had to shoot scores with an open bow, a period self
bow,
> and a crossbow. Now, as a diehard longbowman, I consider a crossbow to be
an
> infernal mechanism with the devil's own taint upon 'em, but I must meekly
> confess they are a load of fun to shoot (just might have to make me one of
them
> <grin>). Hats off to Ricardo the Wanderer for putting together such a fun
and
> challenging tourney.
>   If that weren't enough excitement, our own Southern Region Archery
Marshal
> displayed her prowess with my 48 lb. longbow, by promptly "Robin Hooding"
one
> of my brand new arrows (and oh by the way, she'd just put that one in the
> gold, before she split it with another one). Kind of hard to get
aggravated at
> that, and kind of hard not to be tickled pink that folks were having fun
shooting
> my twelve dollar "AOB floor demo model" longbow (yup, it's the one I was
> whittling on in the class). Judging by the interest in that humble stick
and
> string, there's going to be a few more of them made first part of next
year.
>   Well, I'll sleep good tonight, with a belly stretched full by Gilli's
world
> famous meatloaf and "Death by Chocolate". But, I gotta tell y'all, as I
was
> driving off site this afternoon, Arcus Gilli and Ld Edward McTavish were
down
> there clanking around on the combat range, letting the arrows fly quick
and
> thick. You could see their silly grins gleaming through the grilles of
their
> helms. Archers, God love us, we're all just a wee bit nuts;-)
>