In the process of setting up a new workshop.

Partway through stripping the old carpet.

Still to do...
Put in new flooring
Design and build workbench
Build shelves/bins for storage
Build anvil stand
Build stand for dishing stump
Build armor stand/form
Unpack my tools

Should be all set for...
Leather work (tooling and armor mainly)
Sewing (2 sergers and an industrial sewing machine)
Dyeing Area (primarily for my sisters cashmere)
Stained Glass (my brothers work)
Amtgard weapon construction

Photo by Ivar.

To start, I hate mornings and I have difficulty sleeping in a tent while it is raining (tent on left in photo above). Every 10-30 minutes or so I would be startled awake by the noise and flip on my flashlight to make sure the tent wasn't leaking onto my sleeping bag and mat. This is pretty much how my evening went since I went to bed sometime after midnight.

I'm finally moved in. Lack of posting in the last week was because of lack of internets. I'm mostly unpacked and have my computer up and running but I still need to set up my workshop, so no new equipment/stuff for Clan this year.

If anyone needs to get in touch with me, my message number is 505 680-2471. My cell phone is still active, but I can't check my messages unless I'm near civilization.

If anyone decides to come up to the site before Harvest War to do some work, let me know. I'll be up here pretty much any day except during Clan.

We had approximately 20 people out today in all.

Everybody showed up a little after 1:00 PM, for the most part, and we started off with some jugging, as per F'lar's suggestion on the PV list. We haven't had jugging at the park in years. Since most of the people who played never jugged before, it was fairly unbalanced, but we still had fun for the most part. We got 5 rounds of jugging off before everybody got tired of losing so badly.

We had an althing in which people voted for whether or not we were going to pay for our P.O. Box. The vote passed the althing. Additional topics of discussion included Harvest War and GM elections. There is also some hideous rumor of people being able to assault me freely with baked goods, to which I raised serious objection and confusion.

I'm working on a simple newbie guide that covers everything that you would need to know for your first month out at the park.

Outline

• Before you come out
• Your first day
• Making a weapon
• Making garb

The framework is up:
http://www.pegasusvalley.com/node/122

Suggestions are welcome and comments are enabled on the individual pages for suggestions.

Tried making more breads. Turns out that juice seems to work just fine in the previous recipe I mentioned.

Black raspberry juice was good even though the juice was quite old had fermented a bit.

Used red creme soda and some of the new "undercover" Sierra Mist and they both turned out ok. Can't really taste the flavor of either of them, though the dye in the red creme soda made the dough look like bubble gum.

Have some grape juice to try out next, I have the feeling that it will be very similar to the grape soda bread. There is also a random bottle of beer that I will try at some point.

Now I have to get my rules change/clarification stuff done so there can be at least a little discussion on them.