Purgatorio musings

[gurdymonkey]

Didn't get laundry done today because one of the other tenants was using the machines and I passed out on the sofa for an hour, so that's tomorrow's chore.

I've promised to do instrumental music for a vigil Friday night, so I'm bugging out of work a little early on Friday. Gwenhwyfar said I can pitch my tent by her day shade, though she's planning to motel it on Saturday. Evidently a lot of folks are doing the same, because there was a post today from Her Royal Highness about how they were going to do everything on Saturday (courts, meetings, etc.) with nothing formally scheduled for Sunday. The event site is remote, at altitude and if memory serves, is a haven for star thistle and sheep poo.

Debating whether to show off the Tosenin kosode or to slum it in a cotehardie. Weather report* is for hot and sunny, so I'm going to sweat no matter what I wear. Cotehardie means I can wear the pewter rose brooch, but Japanese means the bigger hat in a shade-poor environment.

*EDIT: Weather.com says highs around 90-92 with 27% humidity, overnight lows about 54. (Must do Sergeant Sikes' hydration drill - a lot....)

Pewter rose brooch could conceivably be worn with modern clothes when we go offsite to dinner, thus demonstrating to the giver that I like it very much....

Comments

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

My vote would be for the kosode, since you worked so hard on it and it deserves to be seen as much as possible. :-) Plus, big hat.

Been meaning to ask (inter-kingdom anthropology geology here, but do you have to drive very far for events? I've heard some of the Western kingdoms are small (not in people but in scale). One of the reasons my husband and I rarely get out is that we live one and a half hours from the closest group (in any direction--and since we're on the border of three kingdoms, there is little consistency in who we see), but outside of these close groups, it's usually 5 to 7 hours in a car just to get to an event. Is that the case out where you live, or are things closer together? (Although I'm sure traffic must be more difficult there...)

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Traffic in the Bay area can be positively heinous and there are bodies of water and mountains complicating things. It takes me about 2 hours to go to things up in Sacramento. Maybe 1 - 2 hours to do something in the South Bay depending on traffic and departure time. The run to Vinton this weekend is supposed to take about 4, but it's up near Reno and if I hit rush hour in Fairfield or Sacramento, it may be longer.

I'd say the average is 3 hours, though I've done 5 for a weekend camping event and it can be 8 for something like West Antir War (which I've only done once). It's about 13 hours from here to Estrella.