Interesting times, weekend edition.
Friday: Tent repair party at Dafydd and Brigit's after work: made a detour to the Milpitas Ranch 99 for groceries first, then had to unpack half of the back of the truck to get to where my canvas was stowed. I believe I mentioned the raffle and new fire-pit previously...
Robert (the four year old) was, as usual, stoked to see me, and a little disappointed when Mommy and Daddy explained that I was there to work on my tent and couldn't play. I did sit next to him at dinner (yummy veg lasagne, tabouleh, Italian bread and mango sorbet to finish). Spent most of the evening attempting to pick stitching out along the bottom of the tent to remove the old stake loops. Only it was machine sewn by a maniac at a zillion stitches per inch. I broke one seam ripper. Brigit was painting the edges of a strip of dagging for their new dining fly and Dave was working on a new center pole spoke for their pavilion. I got most of the loops out of one side of the tent after several hours of struggle, told Dave it would be OK if we just did the one side tonight and left the rest for after the end of tourney season - then he saw how tiny the original seam allowance the tentmaker had used, declared "Screw it!" and handed me a pair of shears to cut the rest off with. He had plenty of scrap canvas to sew a strip along the bottom edge of the tent and set new stake loops with d-rings into it, which will now probably outlast the rest of the pavilion. Anyway, mission accomplished and I got home only a little after midnight.
Saturday managed to get up early enough to do my monthly hair color. As I may have mentioned, I started touching up my rootage using a lighter shade of brown in what may be a lame attempt at dealing with an eventual transition to old-lady-gray hair. Headed over to BART and met James and Sylvia in SF at eleven to catch the 38 bus up to Japantown. First stop, Soko Hardware so James could get a sando-gasa hat. Sylvia pounced upon their one cup rice cooker and I succumbed to the lure of the sale table and bought a very nice little square tetsubin (iron tea pot), which will fit into the camp box a lot better than the flying saucer shaped blue one. We had lunch at the little yoshoku curry joint on the bridge. My spaghetti plate contained fresh tomato, broccoli, eggplant, mushroom, chicken, nori strips and tobiko. Really good.
Swung through Kinokuniya and a couple other shops, then caught the bus back to Muni. They were going to meet Jeff and his girlfriend later. I got back to Fruitvale a bit after three and decided to finally check out Powderface as the idea of an iced coffee was appealing to me. Good coffee and an order of beignets fresh out of the fryer came home with me. This knowledge has the potential to be extremely dangerous.
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karisu_sama and didjiman's party. Always a fun time with people I don't get to see very often, plus some I hadn't met previously.
This morning I went into Berkeley to (a) pick up some beads as I am now a Lady of Rank and it is a good and proper thing to have some sort of tokens to bestow upon people who Do Cool Things. Sadly, there were no monkey-themed charms, but I got some little cloissone yin-yang beads and some carved agate dragons, which will have to do. (b)I swung by Stone Mountain and picked up a half yard of something with the plan to make a pillow to go with the new futon cover. Ran into a co-worker looking for quilt fabric. Also met the lady who does the Decades of Style pattern line - there were finished garments on display and I may have to try some of these at some point, maybe adapt something for future tweed outings or something.
Came home and started work on a new basket lantern - the old ones are getting pretty beat up and I'm experimenting with a new design. Will post more if it works out. Glue is drying at the moment.
Also updated some class notes for the garb class I'm co-teaching with Ishida-dono and sent a copy off to him. Looking forward to hanging out with him this week.
Dye experiment on the upholstery jacquard I picked up for possible rapier armor was not worth the trouble - it didn't look that good and I can live with the yellow, particularly as I will probably tart it up with some big Heian medallion stencils.
Robert (the four year old) was, as usual, stoked to see me, and a little disappointed when Mommy and Daddy explained that I was there to work on my tent and couldn't play. I did sit next to him at dinner (yummy veg lasagne, tabouleh, Italian bread and mango sorbet to finish). Spent most of the evening attempting to pick stitching out along the bottom of the tent to remove the old stake loops. Only it was machine sewn by a maniac at a zillion stitches per inch. I broke one seam ripper. Brigit was painting the edges of a strip of dagging for their new dining fly and Dave was working on a new center pole spoke for their pavilion. I got most of the loops out of one side of the tent after several hours of struggle, told Dave it would be OK if we just did the one side tonight and left the rest for after the end of tourney season - then he saw how tiny the original seam allowance the tentmaker had used, declared "Screw it!" and handed me a pair of shears to cut the rest off with. He had plenty of scrap canvas to sew a strip along the bottom edge of the tent and set new stake loops with d-rings into it, which will now probably outlast the rest of the pavilion. Anyway, mission accomplished and I got home only a little after midnight.
Saturday managed to get up early enough to do my monthly hair color. As I may have mentioned, I started touching up my rootage using a lighter shade of brown in what may be a lame attempt at dealing with an eventual transition to old-lady-gray hair. Headed over to BART and met James and Sylvia in SF at eleven to catch the 38 bus up to Japantown. First stop, Soko Hardware so James could get a sando-gasa hat. Sylvia pounced upon their one cup rice cooker and I succumbed to the lure of the sale table and bought a very nice little square tetsubin (iron tea pot), which will fit into the camp box a lot better than the flying saucer shaped blue one. We had lunch at the little yoshoku curry joint on the bridge. My spaghetti plate contained fresh tomato, broccoli, eggplant, mushroom, chicken, nori strips and tobiko. Really good.
Swung through Kinokuniya and a couple other shops, then caught the bus back to Muni. They were going to meet Jeff and his girlfriend later. I got back to Fruitvale a bit after three and decided to finally check out Powderface as the idea of an iced coffee was appealing to me. Good coffee and an order of beignets fresh out of the fryer came home with me. This knowledge has the potential to be extremely dangerous.
Got a little down time at home before heading off to
karisu_sama and didjiman's party. Always a fun time with people I don't get to see very often, plus some I hadn't met previously.This morning I went into Berkeley to (a) pick up some beads as I am now a Lady of Rank and it is a good and proper thing to have some sort of tokens to bestow upon people who Do Cool Things. Sadly, there were no monkey-themed charms, but I got some little cloissone yin-yang beads and some carved agate dragons, which will have to do. (b)I swung by Stone Mountain and picked up a half yard of something with the plan to make a pillow to go with the new futon cover. Ran into a co-worker looking for quilt fabric. Also met the lady who does the Decades of Style pattern line - there were finished garments on display and I may have to try some of these at some point, maybe adapt something for future tweed outings or something.
Came home and started work on a new basket lantern - the old ones are getting pretty beat up and I'm experimenting with a new design. Will post more if it works out. Glue is drying at the moment.
Also updated some class notes for the garb class I'm co-teaching with Ishida-dono and sent a copy off to him. Looking forward to hanging out with him this week.
Dye experiment on the upholstery jacquard I picked up for possible rapier armor was not worth the trouble - it didn't look that good and I can live with the yellow, particularly as I will probably tart it up with some big Heian medallion stencils.