luscious_purple: Julia, the Maine Coon Cat (Julia)
This past Saturday, I went to the Lochmere event known as Night Under a Fae Moon. (Lochmere is one of the neighboring SCA baronies.) It was relaxing and productive at the same time. I didn't have any tasks to do, other than perform four carols/songs/motets/whatever with Laydes Fayre, an a-cappella women's group. And performing with them is fun, rather than a choir.

Every year (well, except for the plague years), this event has a component called "Lochmart," which is basically a flea market for SCA stuff. I brought a bagful of items and managed to sell three of them, netting me a total of $15. My friend Teleri sold her lightly used Panther hunter's tent for $400, half of its original price. A good deal all around.

I also got my new-to-me archery bow inspected by a marshal. This is a fiberglass recurve bow I bought at a yard sale for $10 last summer. (The sellers were people who had played in the SCA back in the 1980s and 1990s but are no longer active.) The bow is sound, but the metal nock thing on the string is in the wrong place. I will bring it to an archery practice session one of these days and see what can be done about it. I'm happy the bow is safe, because even a used fiberglass bow costs upward of $100 at Pennsic.

The boy toy and I had a quiet Easter. Instead of cooking up a huge ham, we just had some barbecued meats from Mission BBQ, plus a couple of homemade sides.

Today I took Julia the cat to the vet for another round of blood and urine tests. We shall see what the results will be.

Date: 2022-04-20 03:33 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] cellio
cellio: (Default)

If the metal thing on the string is really in the wrong place, they can just put another one on and you'll remember which one to use. If it's only slightly off, that's harder but should be fixable one way or the other.

Worse comes to worse, a new string is much less expensive than a new bow. If it's that old, the marshals might recommend you replace it anyway.

Date: 2022-04-27 06:53 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] sister_raphael
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That is a seriously great price for a Panther tent! I have a longbow but I really need a lighter one. That's a rerally great price you paid for your bow!

Date: 2022-05-28 05:19 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] cz_unit
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Lost you here at Balticon. Do you still have my number?

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