wussing out f'real | Pennsic update

[dragonlady7]

It was so hot by 9 am that sweat was rolling down my back as I stood in the kitchen making coffee.
Z had to go in to the office today.
I packed up Chita and her litterbox and supplies, filled a basket with sewing work and my computer, and hopped in the car, clutching a yowling cat, and had Z drive us over to his mother's house on the way. She's out of town. She has central air.

It is still 83 degrees in this house an hour after I turned the AC on, but 83 degrees and not humid is perfectly tolerable. (I have set the thermostat to 77 but we'll see if it ever gets there.) Compared to outside, where it's in the upper 80s temperature-wise, and upper 80s humidity-percentile-wise? No thank you. Last night I was sitting out on the sunporch-- the minute the sun goes down, the temperature drops 15-20 degrees out there, because there's no insulation so it heats rapidly but cools immediately-- and pinning the straps onto the bodice of the blue kirtle (I should probably finish the bodice before I attach the skirt, what do you think?). I was sitting on a milk crate with a cushion on top of it, so I could work at the sewing machine which is on a coffee table. So my knees were at about a 90-degree angle. I kept starting up and swatting at the backs of my legs, thinking a spider was crawling there (not an unreasonable expectation, given the population of the sunporch). My hand would come away wet-- it was drops of sweat rolling down my calves.

That's how gross the weather is, all of a sudden.

I think all my cold-weather crops are going to bolt, what do you think?

In other news, I found out today that my ride to Pennsic has, as anticipated, evaporated. I will need to drive myself there. I am apparently the only Buffalonian going, that I know anyway. So 1st off, that means no one to share gas cost with-- which I don't mind much, because 2nd off-- I don't have to pack my stuff that well, I can just throw it in the car. And I can bring all kinds of things that take up space and are impractically large, because, well, I've got the room.

I'm wondering if it would be utterly impractical to bring a few little pots of herbs. I am totally addicted to mint tea now, and if I could bring my own fresh mint, that would be so rockin. I can't think of any way of keeping it fresh for 2 weeks without refrigeration except bringing it in a pot. Anyone who's been, would that be an utterly ridiculous thing to do? I mean, I'll have a little bit of room! (You see how this little bit of room will rapidly vanish. But anyway.)

I've also volunteered to be the one to buy and bring the beer, since I'll have the room in my car. Since I'm not about to go to Rochester to pick up someone's gear, and then drive back through Buffalo to embark upon a 4-hour car trip the opposite direction.
But I will be swinging through Rochester at some point, so I could reasonably pick some stuff up then.

Why am I swinging through? because I am planning on visiting my buddy Liesl, who has promised to loan me garb, since she has tons and isn't going to Pennsic this year! Hurrah!
Oh-- Kat-- Katie McNight's putting together a big trip to the Stirling Renn Fest for Aug 9th-10th or so-- and oh apparently Kearlet just moved to Buffalo! I haven't spoken to her since senior year Latin class. So I should maybe look into that. I don't think I'll be back for the Stirling trip though. :(


Chita is pacing around and yowling, like she's forgotten that she lived in this house for over a week two months ago. I told you she's got no long-term memory. No short-term either, really. I'm just ecstatic that I can breathe in here. ... I should be sewing, though.

Comments

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Bring the mint!

There will absolutely be room in the camp for it. That, and I have a feeling it will be much appreciated. Although, alas that Pete and Min will be camping with Royal. Mindy would have gone loco to have it. ^_^

I'm going next year, I PROMISE.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I might bring mint, oregano, and basil, if I can get the basil repotted. I have SO MUCH mint, I can bring another dang pot for Min if she wants it. (It has begun to take over my yard. I was warned this might happen. I didn't plant it!! It came up between some bricks the previous tenant had put down, and NOW I KNOW WHY THOSE BRICKS WERE THERE. There is a sprig of mint, I am not kidding, it is four feet tall, IN the patio. We've had a lot of rain this year.)

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

Do you think they'd mind if I crashed their Sterling trip?

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

That's why I figured I'd tell you about it-- I bet they wouldn't. I just wish I could go-- actually I might come back from Pennsic for it, if it's on the Sunday. Hm. Hmm... I think that would be funny, actually, to show up all grody and nasty and Pennsic-y to a Renn Faire. Mmmm smell the authenticity???

I might have just gotten a job while at Pennsic though so I don't know how that will go. (Man, they need waitresses everywhere, which would be a damn shame except that I am so good at it. She says humbly.)

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

A job at something like Pennsic??!! Wow that would be the coolest thing ever. I hope it works out.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

It's just a temp gig at one of the coffee shops, for the two weeks while everybody's there. If I work a ton of hours I might break even on the trip. We'll see.

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

That is so cool.

[greenworldgirl.livejournal.com]

Just dry the mint! Bundle it up and hang it upside down. It actually tastes pretty much the same when you brew it for tea. I have a TON of peppermint, and that is what I do with it so that I will have it all winter long. In fact, since it's doing so well in this heat, I have to keep watering it and in the next few days make a harvest. Thanks for the accidental reminder!