SC - Okay, that was the shortest event I've been to!/long

[KallipygosRed at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/12/00 7:37:38 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
Seton1355 at aol.com writes:

> So.... how was me
Excellent! Everything was on sale about 25-50% off by Sunday. I got some 
plans for a viking rope bed, tables, and benches; some great trims no longer 
carried by my shops, and made a deal to buy some existing rope beds in the 
near future. Ran into Stephen of the Close and found out that our team took 
the competition; and he was understanding as to why I had not shown. They 
held the competition a little differently than this year in that everyone 
brought their dishes in sort of in sequence to a head table in a hall, where 
all the teams could see the foods and taste them (last year, the judges went 
to the different teams cooking area and tasted). The comments he was later 
told was that many of the teams made remarks upon tasting our submissions as 
"no **wonder** they won". So, he war rightfully proud. Plus everything was 
made with as period a receipe and in a period cooking style at our team, 
although that had not been a "requirement".  He had even "ended" the meal 
with a period white cake receipe with fruit syrup. I was so proud for them. 
So, now this year, the second year of the event here, our barony gets to take 
home the winners standard. It is too headless, footless dancing dressed 
chickens on a white background. In the upper corner is the Twin Moons 
insignia as they won last year, and by Baronial in December we hope to have 
the Tir Ysigthr insignia of the boar on it as well. I want to do a chef's hat 
for both the team leader and our head cook in baronial colors (blue and gold) 
with a plattered boar on the front as a gift for them; and for them to wear 
next year. I was so proud for them.

We (my little house of 15 people) decided to hold a big party at home that 
night, cooked up all the food we would have eaten at war. Including the 
turkey we wanted to deep fry. We were joined later by friends who couldn't 
make it to war and we all stayed up late and reveled in being alive and 
toghether. We rented "Final Destination" and watched it on VCR. Decided we 
wanted to see someone else who had a worse trip than us. Could also have 
rented "Planes, Tranes and Automobiles", but couldn't find that. 

Life can be good.

Lars