I was confronted with this problem at Charles City. I had read about this but never actually done it before. Eventually one the more experienced members came by and showed me how to do it his way. I watched carefully, and am here recording what I saw. I have amplified this with additional comments where appropriate ( Read more... )

Interesting historical note here.  Ganked from
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See kass_rants .

Hey, guys, I actually dug the white carrots before the ground turned completely to rock!

As some of you may remember, I had planted white carrots because they are period for us. Unfortunately, my resident bunnies decided carrot tops would be delicious, so I did not expect much for size.

In fact, they were thumb-sized at best, and not terribly sweet ( Read more... )

What was everyone's opinion of the Des Moines ren faire last weekend? (Other than the weather, that is?) Despite it being far away and wet and miserable, is anyone interested in doing it again?

Your loving contracts rep.

It was a good weekend at Deer River for the White Oak Rendezvous.  I was head campfollower for three days for a small contingent from
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Does anyone have a quick, easy-to-use/make pattern for period shoes (meaning something that a klutz like myself can follow and crank out between now and Scottish Fair)? Online options?

once more how grateful I am to our clann-kin for Sunday night.  There were
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At a recent meeting of some members a consensus emerged that we need to share our research more. Following up on that, many of my research notes can be found via

http://home.comcast.net/~gmcdavid/HistNotes/RefIndex.html

So, good people, we had a rather wet weekend down at Charles City. It was by no means a Loch Rosenthorne, but it was good and damp. We ended up breaking camp right away after breakfast on Sunday morning, as we were released from our contract by the bourgeoisie ( Read more... )