2024 Happy Blog Challenge Continues

 It was a good day.  According to my phone, it is 25 degrees outside.  I'm in my tent and things are okay so far.  I can easily get to my friend's house if I'm too cold.  My happy things will be short.   It is late and I am tired. I drove about three and a half hours to the SCA event.  I made it!  That is a long way for me to drive by myself lately and stay awake! The event was good.  I got to visit with good people and help with Their Majesties by retaining.  I only had to go about two and a half hours to get to a friend's house, join with the party and sleep in my tent tonight.  I'm thankful for a hot hands and my wool. ☮ Currently listening to: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity , by David Graeber & David Wengrow. Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay safe.

The SCA event this coming weekend is a little complicated.  I am doing more things for it than I planned to in a smaller amount of time.  There are surprise awards that are happening that need preparation.  Some of that happened today.  Here are the happy things I can talk about: This morning, I drove to a friend's house and dropped off the sewing I was helping her out with.  That is now out of my hands. Yay! Earlier I had been perusing Facebook Marketplace for a treadmill.  There was one for free not far from my friend's house so I checked it out.  The first thing I decided after seeing it was that I probably couldn't fit it into my car.  I drove by and pulled over at a parking lot to do some more research.  It seems that it is a good possibility that the treadmill weighed over 100 pounds.  So the second thing I decided is that I wouldn't have been able to lift it by myself.  The third thing I decided is that if I ever get a treadm...

Happy Saturday SCA things: A few days ago I ordered something that was delivered after I left for the event.  Gideon was driven up with a friend and they were kind enough to bring the box to the event as well.  Because of that, I was able to fly my banner outside our tent.   It is never a good thing when an ambulance shows up at an event.  Today in the heat one of my champions fell on the field and was brought to the hospital.  I am so thankful that they made it back to the event to tell their story. There was a vorpal rabbit archery shoot that I took the time to do.  I shot it twice, the first time I misunderstood the rules and so I counted that as a practice.  The second time I scored a total of 20 points out of the 21 possible.  It was a fun shoot. During morning court a dear friend was called in and asked to join the Order of the Pelican.  This is the highest award for service in the SCA.  She was asked at morning court, took th...

Some happy things from today: At work I spoke with my supervisor about time off.  We have Mandatory Extended Time (MET) for the next two weeks.  My actual vacation starts before the MET ends.  So I'm leaving for Pennsic when they want me to be working.  My vacation time for the next week was approved, but I can't ask for time off that I'm not scheduled for.  And they won't approve vacation time when there is MET.  So, the end result of all this is that my supervisor assured me that I would get the time off with no bad repercussions.  For that I am happy. An eighteen year old that I babysat, at least once, drove me to the event in Maine today.  I worked until just after noon and I was falling asleep on my way to his family's home to pick him up.  I'm so thankful that he was able to get me to this event today. It was another hot July day.  I'm really thankful that Keziah was able to get the common tent up. A little while after I arrived, w...