Creative Supplimentation (was RE: [Sca-cooks] English Doctors want to ban pointy knives...)

[Huette von Ahrens]

Well, there is truth to the witticism "If four hours is a long drive or a short court, you
must be a Caidan."  There are kingdoms where people would be grateful to have only a five
hour drive to the nearest event.  And then there is the reign of Gregory of York and
Bevan Fraser of Sterling, who were the only Caidans to sit on the Western Thrones, just before
Caid became an independent kingdom.  Gregory lived/lives in San Diego.  Beven lived in the
San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.  Gregory and Bevan had to drive 10 to 12 hours and sometimes
more to fulfill their duties as King and Queen of the West.  Hey, but they knew their jobs were
dangerous when they took them, Fred.

During my most active years, way back when I was in my 20's and 30's, I didn't think twice about
driving to Nordwache or Califia or Starkhavn for a kingdom event.  I even took a Greyhound
bus to Nordwache for a Coronation, when my car died and I couldn't find anyone who had room
for me in their vehicle.  Now that was an experience.

Huette
Angels, Caid


--- Alexa <mysticgypsy1008 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I started in the SCA in Florida (Trimaris) then after
> a short time ended up in Caid, most northern part of
> Caid, Barony of Nordwache.  IF you go much more north
> of Fresno, you are no longer in Caid, you are in
> Kingdom of the West.  I, too, was in a bit of 'culture
> shock' at the difference in the events.  
> As Huette mentions, most of Caid is a short
> drive--down side is, if you live over the grapevine,
> towards Fresno or Bakersfield that short drive just
> doubled.  It is a 5 hour drive to San Diego, and was
> about 2 1/2 to Los Angeles. Not something you really
> want to do for a day trip type event (the 2 1/2 maybe,
> but not the 5). 
> 
> Now I am back on the east coast (Virginia to be exact)
> and happy to be back to the weekend events that have
> feasts.
> 
> 
> --- Huette von Ahrens <ahrenshav at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > As a long time resident of the Kingdoom of Caid [31
> > years next Sept.] and a Feast chef for
> > almost as long, another reason for the lack of
> > frequent banquets and a lack camping events in Caid
> > is that, not counting our Hawaiian territories, we
> > are a very compact kingdom and Southern
> > California is a very heavily populated area.  People
> > can drive to one day events and go home
> > to a warm bed and clean showers.
>  
> 
> As far as the West-Caid wars go--being in that Barony
> on the boarder that I was, Nordwache ended up doing a
> weekend event  called Treasure Chest that pretty much
> became the substitute for that war.  Last one I went
> to, was bigger and better than the one before.  It is
> a weekend event, held at a regular park that they let
> the group use for the weekend (meaning no regular
> showers, and no one brave enough to do primitive
> feasts).  
> 
>    Although
> > there has been a push in Caid to restart the
> > West-Caid wars.  If that happened, that would
> > be seven.
> > 
>  
> I have played in the kitchen w/ the Darach cooking
> group-they are an awesome bunch of people!
> 
> > Caid has several baronial level cooking guilds.  I
> > believe there are at least two in 
> > Califia.  The Baronies of Gyldenholt, Dreiburgan and
> > Wintermist and the Shires of Darach
> > and of Heatherwyne all have a cooking guild of some
> > sort.  There might be others that I am not 
> > aware of. 
> >  > Huette von Ährens
> > Barony of Angels, Kingdom of Caid.
>  
> 
> Alexa
> Barony of Marinus, Atlantia
>    
> 
> 
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