[Bordermarch] Crawfish boil

Wed Apr 7 05:19:28 PDT 2010

My Dearest Weaver,

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Therese

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From: Charles Netterville <ck_netterville at yahoo.com>
To: Barony Bordermarch <bordermarch at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tue, April 6, 2010 3:31:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Bordermarch] Crawfish boil

I'll throw in the peppercorns. I have a couple to spare around here somewhere. 
By the way, just for the record, ( Packrats Unite !!!! ) For all of us who have ever been forced to throw out a valued treasure that would have one day been the center of envy but is now rotting in some landfill due to lack of foresight, I say to you Santiago, we are avenged!!! Your story of perseverance under the weight of scrutiny as your treasure pile
was under siege gives me strength to carry on. 
Never more should we allow ourselves to be goaded into simply casting away dear treasures under the guise of want for a need. Forever more to come shall we site the wisdom of His Excellency Santiago in overcoming all who would oppose him and his triumphant rise to victory in pavilion construction because he did so. 
In closing, I only have this to say. I had no idea that as a young soldier Dwight Eisenhower was stationed on the southern coast of Maine and he was bitten by a Crab-Like Spiny Orb Weaver. 

--- On Tue, 4/6/10, Lathrop, Dave <David.Lathrop at valero.com> wrote:

From: Lathrop, Dave <David.Lathrop at valero.com>
Subject: Re: [Bordermarch] Crawfish boil
To: "Barony Bordermarch" <bordermarch at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 10:09 AM

If someone could scrounge up a new potato and some pepper corns we could have a real party with Lord Adolf's two crawfish!

I've not had time to post lately because HE Elisabeth promised the fine folks at Castleton that we would have our new baronial pavilion ready this weekend. When she hit me with the news I had to come up with a plan to make it happen.

I've been spending all my precious spare play time fabricating a fourteen foot tall center pole for the pavilion. 
Since the pavilion has sixteen sides, hexadecagon, I had to construct a sixteen sided hub that fit around the center pole. The hub had to have sixteen holes in it to facilitate the placement of sixteen six foot long spokes. The sixteen spokes had to have hole drilled in the ends to facilitate the placement of six inch long metal spikes, which I just happen to have in my eclectic supply of scrap metal, the very stuff that HE Elisabeth has been hounding me to take to the dump!

I laminated two sets of three kiln dried fir 2x4's for the center pole. A fourteen foot center pole is a little long to haul around so I once again dug in my scrap pile and found the perfect piece of square metal tubing to use as a sleeve; the center pole shall be tow pieces.
The laminated center pole had to milled to fit inside the metal sleeve. One half of the center pole is permanently bolted half way in the metal sleeve, the other half slips in the metal sleeve and is held in place by the weight of the pavilion crushing it down.
The center pole also needed a spike in the top to hold the center of the pavilion in place.

I've still more to do but I decided to try out my creations and set up the pavilion. It only fell twice before I decided to tie it off to the swing set.
I finally managed to get the spokes placed properly when I had to leave to pick up HE Elisabeth from work.
When we drove into the drive the pavilion was in full view screaming for attention but HE Elisabeth was on the phone and could not be distracted! She got out of the car and headed straight into the manse.

I slumped and pouted a bit then decided that mayhaps the pavilion needed its side walls attached, "Yes, of course! that's what I'll do, put on the side walls!"

I quickly put the side walls on the pavilion and then shuffled into the manse to fetch HE Elisabeth. I was expecting her come out and see the now completed pavilion in all its glory and then immediately shower me with gifts and accolades for a job well done, this is what I got instead; "That looks pretty good but the sides aren't right."

I fixed the sides but by then she had snuck back into the manse.
Five minutes later I had everything torn down and put up.

I still have much to do on the pavilion, but it's so very very hard to focus when your heart is crushed and minced like that garlic you can find in those little glass jars in the grocery store's spice isle.

I did find just a bit of time to cut out a 10"x10"x14'beam from one of my logs in my log-pile; now I've only got 40 or 50 more to go!

We need stuff for the Trumpeter, send it to Chronicle at bordemarch.org It can be stories, pictures, drawings, artwork, or small pieces of fruit.
We would like to get the April issue out for publication this weekend and we need you input to fill the pages.

Lord Adolf has promised to send in a few words of wisdom, perhaps he'll reveal his shaved knuckle!
I forgot to post that that Lord Adolf and I recently went back to Lumberton Mississippi to pick up Lady Colecte's potting shed that she so graciously let everyone use during Gulf War to bath in.

The trip was uneventful. The girls, He Elisabeth and Lady Colecte, stayed home and were going to do some shopping while we were gone.

Lord Adolf and I left Silsbee at around six in the morning, we arrived in Lumberton Mississippi six hours later and spent three hours tearing down the potting shed. During the tear-down process Lord Adolf insisted that he be the one than climbed the ladder to remove the roof, I held the ladder.
All went well until a slight breeze unexpectedly moved the ladder. Lord Adolf's let out a small girlish "Aghuug!" and commenced to blame me for trying to make him fall; I denied everything. When he descended the ladder I could tell his mood had gone south, but when he purposely tried to injure my arm by dropping a heavy 4x4 on it and then saying, "Sorry?" I knew we'd best finish up real soon.
When we did finally finish up we called the girls to see if they had finished with their shopping. After our six hour drive and three hour tear down the girls had only just started their shopping! 

The first 15 minutes of our six hour drive home consisted of conversations that went something of like this; "Hey Santiago", "What now Adolf." "Did you know that as a young soldier Dwight Eisenhower was stationed on the southern coast of Maine and he was bitten by a Crab-Like Spiny Orb Weaver?" "No I didn't know that." "Well it's true!"

After 15 minutes our conversations quickly degraded into nonsense.

What I found most interesting about the whole trip was the fact that on the way to Mississippi we drove on one side of the road, but on the way home we drove on the other side of the road!

HE Santiago

-----Original Message-----
From: bordermarch-bounces+david.lathrop=valero.com at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:bordermarch-bounces+david.lathrop=valero.com at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of ragseg at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:31 AM
To: bordermarch at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: [Bordermarch] Crawfish boil

I have a couple of crawfish in my back yard that I will be glad to contribute.  My wonderful lady Colecte is planning on making some sort of period shellfish souffle with them but I think we will make the sacrifice.

Adolf

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