[Steppes] A pre-event thank you...

[AlKudsi at aol.com]

This is a pre-event thank you to those who have already put in some 
exceptionally hard work helping me get the sideboard ready for Queen's Champion.  

Her Grace, Mistress Willow -- marzipan roses, decorations for the table and 
hall
Her Grace, Baroness Valeria -- marzipan roses
Countess Regina -- donating and cooking roast beef, helping Mistress Kalida 
with preparing site tokens for Steppes Artisan (getting ME off the hook!).  Her 
lord also helped with the site tokens for Artisan.
Mistress Kalida -- teaching us how to make marzipan roses, making a bunch, 
and furnishing a location for preparing and storing them -- not to mention 
feeding us all pizza as a reward!
Mistress Xene -- marzipan roses, decorations, support, and logistics
HL Suzanna -- marzipan roses

Thanks to these ladies, we have over 200 beautiful marzipan roses, and 
Mistress Kalida is ahead of the game on the site tokens for Artisan.  Plus, it was a 
wonderful afternoon of talk, sharing stories (thanks again, Willow!) and 
actually quite fun.

There will, of course be many additional thank yous at the event, but I felt 
that these deserved special word fame.  They were all gracious ladies (and one 
gentleman) who gave up an entire Sunday afternoon to help out.  It certainly 
proved out the old adage that many hands make an easy job, and in the case, a 
merry one too!

In service to the Barony of the Steppes, and the Canton of Lindenwood,

Honorable el-Sayyidda Saqra al-Kudsi
Feastocrat, Queen's Champion

P.S.  A special thank you to two Steppes people: to Baroness Anne Louise of 
Blue Castle, former Baroness of the Steppes, who is donating refrigerator space 
for a lot of this food until the event, and Lord Alaidair who came out in 
blistering 105 degree heat to help me locate and load serving dishes and utensils 
from the Steppes/Lindenwood locker.