[Sca-cooks] A toast to the SCA

[Elaine Koogler]

Well said, Mistress! I've been in a little longer, but have the same 
feelings. I know I would not have survived my three bouts of cancer 
nearly so well...and most importantly of all, I would probably never 
have met the love of my life(25 years ago last April)! And the 
friends...oh my! Friends like you, Regina, and my first protege to get 
"kicked upstairs"...in opposite parts of the country, but we still keep 
in touch. I have learned so much over the years...about everything. So 
yes, even though it's a glass of diet Coke...I do join you in your toast!

Kiri

kingstaste at mindspring.com wrote:

>Good Gentles, I ask you to raise a glass with me.
>	25 years ago this weekend I attended my first SCA event, Trimaris Memorial
>Tourney at the Mariana Caverns in Mariana, Florida.  I rode to the event
>with 3 other folks and all our camping gear in a mid-sized sedan (boy, those
>were the days!).  I met my future husband, Knikolos Major of
>Salem-by-the-Sea.  I drank Krupnik for the first time, and bugged the fellow
>who brought it from Friday night until Monday morning for the recipe, which
>I proceeded to make for my college roommates and supplemented my book money
>with for several years.
>	I paid my Royal University of Meridies 2 dollar registration fee (now
>there's an investment that I've really gotten my money's worth from) and
>took my first RUM class - Basic T-Tunics, from Knik as a matter of fact (he
>never remembered me from that class, but I still have his handouts).
>	I attended Court for the first time and watched them awarding this strange
>thing called an OOO - to Ammalyne's dog - I was seriously confused.  I also
>saw a gentleman (Lord Seamus Mccryu McHoo) awarded with the OOO, and a
>watermelon plaid kimono that a strange beggar fellow called "Mad Randy" (Hi,
>Orlando!) modeled before handing it over.  Though I didn't really understand
>what was going on, I loved it, and knew it was funny even if I didn't know
>why.
>	I know I attended feast, but don't remember much about it except eating it
>out of my Girl Scout mess kit.  I stayed in my 2-man pup tent (which I still
>have) and had 2 dresses to wear that was my entire SCA wardrobe.  All in
>all, I had one hell of a time.
>
>	So, here's to the Society for Creative Anachronism.  A fascinating,
>frustrating, individualistic, intelligent, faithful, loyal, artistic, and
>wonderful group of people.  I couldn't have found another group I would
>rather have spent a quarter of a century with.  I have never been a
>'joiner', and in fact have not belonged to any other organization other than
>what professional obligations dictated.  I can not imagine what my life
>would have been like without the SCA as a background to it.
>	Raise your glass of mead, home-brew, sekanjabin, krupnik, or rose-scented
>water and join me in a toast to this organization that has given so much to
>me.  Thank you one and all for being a part of it, and here's to another 25!
>	Sincerely,
>	Mistress Christianna MacGrain
>
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