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Bess

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Retired RPFS participant. Last year I worked Faire was 1988, the last year of Agoura. We are returned to Active Participation at Faire in 2006 with the Country Garden Dancers! :-)
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Re: OT: Ghoulish Portrait of Elizabeth at Big Box Store (in Ren Faire History Snobs) IIRC, it's QEI, the Armada Portrait. But that's off the top of my head at the office with none of my reference books at hand.
discussion post on Fri, October 23, 2009 - 7:50 AM
Hey, wanna know what's goin' on with the CGD? (in Country Garden Dancers) Sign up on our website!

cgdancers.webs.com/
discussion post on Wed, October 21, 2009 - 9:30 PM
Re: What kind of prep does your cast do for faire? (in Ren Faire History Snobs) RPFS in general has workshops/build/rehearsals for four weekends prior to a seven weekend run.

Specific guilds, groups, and troupes that perform at RPFS have their own schedules of meetings and rehearsals.

I can speak specifically for the Co... read more
discussion post on Tue, October 13, 2009 - 7:49 AM
Decisions, decisions. (blog entry) I've decided to pare tribe back to pretty much bare minimum due to the chronic stability issues and not rumors of its demise. I value this site too much to totally be rid of it.

However, this will be my last blog here. If I decide to blog els... read more
blog entry posted Fri, September 12, 2008 - 10:44 AM permalink - 1 comment
Busy, productive, restful long weekend. (blog entry) My weekend started Friday with a day off work. I slept as late as possible; did some computer stuff; got started on my and my sister's T-Shirts for the upcoming Soccer season; hit BevMo for beverages for practice; knitted; washed towels; and got s... read more
blog entry posted Mon, September 1, 2008 - 8:57 PM permalink - 2 comments
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I've decided to pare tribe back to pretty much bare minimum due to the chronic stability issues and not rumors of its demise. I value this site too much to totally be rid of it.

However, this will be my last blog here. If I decide to blog elsewhere, I will, if not, I have 350 pages of a word file in my work machine to add to as the exercise has proven to be cathartic.

As far as backups of tribes here, I have Yahoo! groups and have been there for many years. I have MySpace (under this ... read more
Fri, September 12, 2008 - 10:44 AM permalink - 1 comment
 
My weekend started Friday with a day off work. I slept as late as possible; did some computer stuff; got started on my and my sister's T-Shirts for the upcoming Soccer season; hit BevMo for beverages for practice; knitted; washed towels; and got started on my niece's new bloomers. Friday evening we had a dinner of appetizers and desserts at Bourbon Street while the Dixiedelics played.

Saturday morning I worked a bit more on the bloomers; picked up Sarah and Abby; set off for Dance practic... read more
Mon, September 1, 2008 - 8:57 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
Maggie (Creator of the Compendium of Common Knowledge) posted this in her blog and referenced it on the History Snobs tribe. It might be an interesting character building exercise, though I don't know how much of it will apply to the common folk.


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Character Building for Courtiers
by Maggie Secara

This list assumes a sizeable group o... read more
Sat, August 30, 2008 - 8:47 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
In order to make a decision about going to Northern, I need to weigh the pros and cons.

Pro (with Russ):
More performance time with a mostly different audience
Boggards
Wives
Time with friends

Con (with Russ):
Russ has no time to take off, so we'd have to go up Friday after work and leave Sunday afternoon.
Russ has a traffic ticket to pay
Expense of a hotel room (camping last year on Saturday night was too damned cold)
Expense of gas

Pro (without Russ)
More performance time ... read more
Thu, August 28, 2008 - 2:07 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
Yesterday we got a card from the Vet's office in the mail.
It was signed by pretty much the entire staff, contained a paw-print card and a copy of a poem called The Rainbow Bridge.

I peeked in it before Russ and told him about it and he asked me, "You know where the Rainbow Bridge goes to, don't you?"

I immediately said "Valhalla". Though the poem tells of a different place.

Needless to say, we cried. It was sweet of the Vet's office to do that, but sad all the same. read more
Tue, August 26, 2008 - 10:56 AM permalink - 7 comments
 
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