SC - Is drinking water "period"

[CBlackwill@aol.com]

It is a choice for a vacation.

I as do many others on this list have stressful jobs/lives for one
reason or another.

I choose to enjoy my vacation.

We have a roughly 20x20 firepit seating area, with a 10x20
cooking/pantry area and a 10x10 work/picnic area, with 3 trees
separating the public area from a roughly 10x10 very sloping area where
the sump was dug in. We hung a hammock from the trees to hang out the
drying dishes.

If you have the main schmooze meal being served at dusk, by the time
dinner was done, it was pitch black, and it is a tad difficult to do
dishes standing on a slope in the dark...We did have a dirty dish issue
last year that I really want to avoid.

This year, my lord is building us a field kitchen that is 10x20[designed
to fit the same footprint as lastyears pantry cooking area] that has a
pantry area, a countertop area with a double sink sunk in designed to
use a garden hose as the water source, and a garden hose as a drain line
to the sump behind the trees[a perfect sopt for our shower sump, by the
way] and a cooking area designed to hold both coleman stoves and the
nifty smoker/grill of Phlips, and have a serving/buffet counter. This
will be a great adjunct to the wonderful fire ironmongery of Phlips. It
is a project I have wanted to do for several years as we keep ending up
with camping and event sites with inadequate kitchens.

As to the fibreware, it is plain, and off white. The plates are oval
with a bit of a lip, and the bowls are plain and about 12 oz in
capacity. They are recyclable and from a renewable resource-and also
bear a resemblance to feastgear i have seen at events.

 http://www.chinetco.com/foodserv/products/table/tablnatr.htm

The plastic flatware, well-we had assorted mundane flatware and instead
of having to wash these, we can chuck them. I dont have a problem in
bringing my modern mugs and glasses[well, plasticswares] to pennsic, but
i will be damned if i bring my period looking expensive spanish blown
glass or german tankards. Despite the intrinsic value that could walk
off, there is a breakage issue. I could spend 60 for polycarb beer
tankards from work, that at least look sort of period, but i have no use
for them other than for pennsic. i may buy them next winter for next
year, but i make less than 20k, and i dont feel like dodging phone
payments and car insurance to have a period campsite!

Our site is cramped enough, and people mostly forgot their feastgear
anyway....it would eb easier to provide the fibreware and plasticwares.
I consider the point of pennsic is vacation. I want to cheer the
fighters, do classes, sit and schmooze and network . I consider the
nonperiooid feastgear a good compromise...if i wanted a period camp, i
would camp in the enchanted ground. we did have a period feel to the
evenings. We talked about period food, redacting recipes, garb, music
and we listend to and sang period music, music written in the period
manner and some downright classic sca filk[and sci-filk as well] we
played chess, we sewed and did handworks, we cooked, we redacted and we
drank. we had people over for meals and we visited other
people[especially the live music and dancing at Orluk!] and complained
about the portapotties. We traded food and coffee for the use of our
neighbors shower, and [after we left] the pantry got flooded out by our
other neighbors wading pool. It was vacation and it was fun. I came away
relaxed[just in time to have my kidneys consider shutting down on me]
and with plenty of wonderful emmories. I would not have traded it for
anything, except maybe another few weeks of it!

margali
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 As for mundane eating wares and modern dishes, there is a difference
between
picnic dishes and real dishes.  Even if it is mundane, there is a
difference
between non period, obviously non period, glaringly obviously non
period, and
phenomenally obviouslly non period.  Plasticware and paper plates fall
into the
final category.