[Bordermarch] Heather Dale House Concert

[W G Wimberley]

   I so wanted to make this concert, since I love music and it was held at
   Their Excellencies' lovely abode, but, alas, my lord husband and I were
   spending the evening in the emergency room at St Elizabeth's due to his
   having a fever that afternoon of 103.4 degrees. Doc said that he likely
   had a three days' flu and said he could go back to work Friday.
    So glad to hear it was a good time with great music, food and folks.
   So sorry to have missed it.

   Meresankh

   -----Original Message-----
   >From: "Lathrop, Dave"
   >Sent: May 5, 2011 1:05 PM
   >To: Barony Bordermarch
   >Subject: [Bordermarch] Heather Dale House Concert
   >
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   >
   >Heather Dale House Concert
   >
   >Ok folks, if you weren't at the baronial manse for the Heather Dale
   and Ben Deschamps house concert you really missed a great show!
   >
   >Heather and Ben are travelling
   musicians/performers/storytellers/singers/song writers and really nice
   folks to boot who hail from Texas's northern most county known as
   Canada.
   >They arrived at the baronial manse on May 2nd from their previous
   engagement in the great city of Houston. When their adoring fans
   started arriving at the manse for the house concert, Heather and Ben
   were there at the door to greet them like long lost friends. Heather
   and Ben brought with them plenty of really cool silk screened tee
   shirts and a bucket load of their fantastic CDs. The tee shirts and CD
   thing worked out very well in my favor because while people were
   scooping them up I was in the kitchen scarfing down all the eats that
   the good people of Bordermarch always bring when they visit.
   >I swear I could taste the excitement crackling in the air when Heather
   and Ben started their first set, on second thought, that taste might
   have been the caramelized habanera/butterscotch bunt cake Lady Jillian
   contributed to the food fest that evening.
   >
   >Heather and Ben are fantastic entertainers! Their songs transported
   the audience back to a time when the Dream was a reality that had honor
   and chivalry ruling the day.
   >There was one particular song they performed that really pulled at
   everyone's heartstrings as well as wetting more than a few eyes in the
   crowd. The song I speak of floated us not into the Dream, but trucked
   us right up the Chattooga river and dumped us slap-dab in the middle of
   the front porch where that banjo-plucking-slack-eyed-Gemini-twin who
   portrayed a young man in the movie 'Deliverance' was playing a solo
   rendition of 'Dueling Banjos'.
   >The afore mentioned eye-wetting song of which I speak described the
   shattered love between a man and his wife whose cohabitation of the
   same planet was just not working out.
   >The man finally made a deal to have old Be-L-sa-Bob take his crabby
   wife on an extended vacation down to the centrally heated Hood. When
   the wife found out what her husband had done she had a full blown
   conniption fit and went totally ape on the devil. With the deal sealed
   the man had finally found the peace and tranquility he had almost
   forgotten existed, but the peace did not last! It wasn't long before
   old Be-L-sa-Bob realized he had been schnozzled by the man, and
   therefore decided to return the wife to her husband! It seems that the
   man's wife was upsetting the residents in the devils crib due to her
   being so ornery and cantankerous. When the devil approached the man and
   said he was going to void the deal, the man ran off into the hills
   screaming. Unfortunately, due to the sharp snapping sound of hankies
   whipping out of pockets to take care of the weeping and sniffling from
   the audience, I did not hear what happened to the wife.
   >It was one of the best love songs any of us had ever heard.
   >
   >When Lord Jacob Rot Ross Templin showed up with an arm load of pizzas
   he was immediately crowned 'King of the Eats'! The best pizza he
   brought was a 12-cheeze pizza with raw spinach roots imbedded between
   the 5th and 6th layers of cheese. Lord Jacob had crafted the 12-cheeze
   pizza himself and said he made it to honor Popeye and Mighty Mouse. He
   would like to think that Heather and Ben appreciated the extra effort
   he put into making the pizza.
   >
   >When Lord Simon Mac Crimmon entered the manse everyone was
   flabbergasted at his growth since he was last seen in public. When he
   realized that the group gathering around him was staring at him, he
   proudly lifted his head to one of the light fixtures in the ceiling and
   bellowed, "I am no longer to be called Little Simon! From this day
   forth I shall be known as Half Man Half Dan, or maybe just Half Simon".
   >
   >HE Don Armand was not present at the Heather Dale House Concert.
   >
   >HL Mea Passavanti came in from Houston to visit with Heather, Ben, and
   her Bordermarch friends. She was, as always, gracious and a pleasure to
   be with. I did try to shame her, but unfortunately she had earlier been
   conversing with HE Elisabeth, [who has known me for a long time because
   she is my wife], and was warned of the techniques that I employ to
   compel one into a condition of ignominy. HL Mea has also been in the
   SCA far too long to ever reach an appreciable state of mortification
   inflicted by one who has barely reach level 3.5 on the road to
   Shame-Wow perfection.
   >
   >All of the Bordermarch Lady bards in attendance somehow knew all the
   words to Heather and Ben's songs. When they harmonized with Heather's
   beautiful voice the room seemed to fill with angels. Not to be out-done
   by the ladies, Ben tried to get the guys in the audience to sing along
   with him, but when he heard the cacophony of baritone warbling and
   witnessed the small pieces Tostitos chips spewing from the mouths of
   the Bordermarch males he rescinded his request for harmonization
   assistance. There was one fairly decent high pitched male voice, but I
   think it was present due to Lord Malcolm's trousers being pulled up a
   bit too high and tight.
   >
   >Lady Padraigin shown up without her articulating monkey charm
   necklace, but she did have a rag doll with a photo of Herbert Hoover
   glued over the face of the doll. I noticed that whenever Heather and
   Ben were singing their songs Lady Padraigin would hold her Herbert
   Hoover doll by its two little hands and make it appear to be jumping
   and dancing all over her knees!
   >
   >Lady Lyllianne, our Bordermarch Poetess, was seen secretly coveting
   Heather Dale's wooden flute! For the life of me I don't understand why
   her father, Lord Phocas the Flute Maker,
   >does not make her one. Does anyone know if there is a homeopathic cure
   for someone with flutosis?
   >
   >Although Heather and Ben are from Canada, they are very fluent with
   the English language. Their musical odyssey has led them to places
   where most of us can only dream of visiting.
   >They can now truly lay claim to having more friends than anyone else
   in the world!
   >
   >HE Elisabeth and me, as well as our fellow Bordermarchers, are truly
   blessed to have been able to share some time with Heather Dale and Ben
   Deschamps right here in Barony Bordermarch. Our time with Heather and
   Ben has brought us an understanding that their music is a reflection of
   their hopes and dreams, their friends and adventures, and ultimately,
   their love of sharing it all with any who would but take a moment and
   listen.
   >
   >
   >HE Santiago
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