Question of the Week...

Which pretty much mostly applies to the North American crowd, the feedback from my Overseas Coterie is always appreciated.

While I think movements like "A Gathering of Fools" are a good thing (though I'm not convinced there will be enough pushback against current SCA inertia to do any good), it makes me curious:

Is anybody making any plans to salvage anything if/when we lose the lawsuit?

Talking with John in the car yesterday (more on the weekend in general later) it occurred to us that as devistating as it would be to loose all our assets, the sudden loss of liability insurance in itself would be even more crippling.

None of the big "Wars" will happen uninsured. Even the small events are threatened. Even if you could "pass the hat" to finance the site - I had to have a liability rider on my renter's insurance for my wedding. It was required by the event site. It wasn't all that expensive, but that was *mumble muble* years ago.....

John was positing hooking up with the sorta-local HEMA group. But doing anything of that sort would create a new Society with much greater focus on the arts martial and I do not mean archery. I don't oppose that but there are lots of people who will.

Herding all the cats back into one corral may be impossible as well. A lot of them will believe and insist that any form of centralization is bad. (They already hotly resent the BoD). More will believe that the Society can be remade in their image. Then there are the Ancient and Honorable Peers who will want everything put back the way it was....

So, I ask - is there anybody in your neck of the woods that is at least laying contingency plans?

Following the rest of the sheep...

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Life in My Shoes

So, returning to life in my little planetoid:

This weekend, I hit the Fiber Festival with Lisa and Paul. (No, not THAT kind of fiber. Yarn and wool, ya sillies). I came home with a few skeins of yarn for various things, a shawl pattern (50 rows in and already screwed it up. *head desk), and plans to try to sucker Dad into building me a swift.

Sunday we hit the Lansing Feis. To my relief, Liesl enjoyed it thoroughly. I don't know if it was the earplugs, the absence of "Frau Blucher", or just starting to dissociate whatever it was that she disliked so from the dancing itself - she was hopping around and going "One, two, one, two" for all she was worth. She also insisted in getting the next book in a series of mysteries whose main character is an Irish Dancer. This included buying the book, having it signed, and sitting in the lap of the author for a picture. Sweetly, said author remembered her from last year and was very kind. We read the first chapter last night at bed time.

I've gotten back in the saddle a bit on a couple fronts. I posted my bread recipe on my GF blog:
http://glutenfreegoesvintage.blogspot.com/
I promise to be a bit more faithful to it in the future.

I've also started a new blog just to chronicle day to day things with my girls. Their educations, their dietary requirements, and even dance and all the little facets of seeing life through Autism. Not because I think anybody is interested but because it's basically my journal. Heh. Tonight I should probably style it and have it ready for launch soonish.

Thanks to Jerusha, I happened across the FB group on Elizabethan costuming. They were discussing the Cheese ladies. I jumped in and made some new friends. Interestingly, I get a LOT more props from people OOK than I do in. :-D Heh. Possibly, given my recent improvements with messing with GIMP, I will delve a bit deeper into the Cheese Ladies. Possibly New Friend will also visit and get pictures.

Anyway, lots of little things to do, including editting other people's stuff for the Campaign Against SCArb (Even if I don't think the SCA will survive its encounter with Liability Law). Design a few more T-shirts. Make a shopping list for the Pat Roche Feis and for Christmas shopping in general. To say nothing of filling out paperwork for the new school year and finding dance classes for BOTH girls.

*whew* No wonder I'm tired!

Aesthetics....

I promise, I'm off to go play with some Dutch stuff.

In the meantime, any suggestions on color schemes/header images for the new blog? It's mostly focusing on parenthood with ASD - with some crafting, baking, and Irish dance thrown in.

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Who is probably the only one who even begins to understand this or find it amusing:

Sidenote

Hmmm, one of my new leetle FB Elizabethan costuming friends has pretty clearly been snagging some of her finds off my website. :-) I doubt she cropped that last one pixel-perfect to the way I had cropped it.

I don't mind, really. But some attribution would have been nice, eh? Both for me and for Mona, who TOOK the picture.