SC - 101 ways to punish a Herald...

[Laura C. Minnick]

"James F. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> "Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
> 
> >
> > JUST FYI, Stefan-
> >
> > A) I already own a whip. It was gifted to me by an Earl some eight or so
> > years ago. He thought I needed one.
> 
> A Party Whip? This _is_ an election year in this mundane state....

Not party. Edward told me it was for _riding_.

> > B) My idea of tortures are more likely to be of the pleasurable sort-
> > low necklines, whipped cream, soft music, candles, and an irresistable,
> > um, er, 'bedside manner'. 
> Bedside? Bed _side_? As I recall, the side of the bed, nor beside the
> bed had much to do with anything......

Will respond privately... ;-)

> > Real torture is having the object of one's passions 180 miles away. Day,
> > after day, after day...
> 
> 183.1 miles.
> 294.67 km
> 14648 chains
> 159.11 nautical miles (so there's no navigable bodies of water between
> us...)
> 1464.8 furlongs

And what is that in leagues? (the Frank in the room really wants to
know...)
 
And for food content- since the mention was amde of strawberry seasons-
here in the Willamette Valley, strawberries ripen locally in early June.
Anything coming in before then comes from California, and we know Oregon
berries are yummiest. Of course, you can get all sorts of interesting
things because of all the eco/organic/super-natural growers around here-
some greenhouse, some not. (And no, not all of it is cannabis.) Of
course, you PAY well for this produce...

Southern Oregon has been called the 'Appalachians of the West Coast' and
has beautiful landscape (something like southern France or parts of
Italy) with mountains, rivers, beautiful beaches... But the unemployment
rate is fairly high, wages are disproportionately low compared to living
costs (especially housing) and we have too many displaced timber
workers, too much crank, and too few old-fashioned jobs. 

But Where else can I drive down a major interstate and see a peregrine
falcon sitting on a fencepost? Where else can I go to an event for the
pleasure of watching a tournament and then cooling off in one of the
cleanest rivers in the nation? And where else could I sit around a
kitchen table with a bunch of people laughing their heads off eating
artichokes for a truly obscenely low price?

Observing Seumas putting together the Investiture feast, I realized that
on a large scale, we were doing what people surely did in period- they
made do with the resources they had. He put together a magnificent
feast- which garnered compliments even from my curmudgeonly SCA-mum, who
hates 'yet another chicken wing' as much as Akim (;-) Nothing fancy,
just good food, period recipes. I did my best to recreate period
presentation. And we made do in an elementary-school gym.

It is not how much we can get away with- but how little we can get away
with. I don't want to make-do with mundane things and pretend, I want to
try to do/make/have period stuff, and work at not seeing the things that
I can't get to yet...

And how did I get _here_?

'Lainie