Work weekend
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norsegirlWent up to the Quad War site this weekend for a "work weekend". I tell ya, it was a lot of people working on their own, personal projects, not so much work on the site as a whole. Anyway, we did our part.
Arrived late Saturday, which wasn't a whole lot of a problem since it had been miserable, cool and rainy all day. Huge thunderstorms over night as we slept in the van. Sometime in the wee hours the storms cleared, the clouds vanished and it was hot and sunny the rest of the weekend. Many silly people refused to apply sunscreen, wanting "a bit of sun, I'll put it on in the afternoon" and wonder of wonder, are now as red as lobsters. Full grown adults should know better, I felt free to mock at will.
Spent Sunday morning moving wood around the site to various camp piles. Noted that none got moved to near the Lost Viking encampment - whatever. Sunday afternoon was spent painting the new biffies they are installing near the tournament field. Monday morning, got up at a reasonable hour, finished the last of the painting, and were the first ones to leave the site at 11am or so. Got home, Jason put everything away, which was dead-easy without a tent, food or dishes.
The last few years we've attended Quad War and seen the personal cabins I'd been idly toying with the idea of constructing one. Touring the site on our own this weekend neatly erased that notion from my mind. The problem with leaving a structure to its own devices for 90% of the year is that nature tends to move in. Most of the cottages/sheds were revolting. Covered in mouse and pigeon poop and generally unlivable as far as I was concerned. last night, we finally bit the bullet and laid down some big bucks for a lovely pavilion. We probably spent around the same that most people spend to build one of these sheds and we can use ours in multiple locations. In case anyone is curious, this is what we ordered, in white and blue. Our original notion was for yellow and red, but they sold out of that colour before we could place our order. I've quite warmed to the idea of blue and white anyway. Good baronial colours and all. Shockingly, the shipping was almost as much as the tent itself. If we'd lived on the US side of the border it would have been much more reasonable, but living way up here we can't even try to get it shipped to someone else and pick it up ourselves. We weren't really ready to lay down the extra $200 to ship it, but figured there isn't really a cheaper/easier way to get a pavilion, so we just sucked it up. This is my BIG birthday present. I figure I won't be getting another birthday present until my mid-thirties. It should arrive by this time next week. Now I just have to make poles and stakes and we're ready to go. And some sort of groundcloth. Any ideas?
Arrived late Saturday, which wasn't a whole lot of a problem since it had been miserable, cool and rainy all day. Huge thunderstorms over night as we slept in the van. Sometime in the wee hours the storms cleared, the clouds vanished and it was hot and sunny the rest of the weekend. Many silly people refused to apply sunscreen, wanting "a bit of sun, I'll put it on in the afternoon" and wonder of wonder, are now as red as lobsters. Full grown adults should know better, I felt free to mock at will.
Spent Sunday morning moving wood around the site to various camp piles. Noted that none got moved to near the Lost Viking encampment - whatever. Sunday afternoon was spent painting the new biffies they are installing near the tournament field. Monday morning, got up at a reasonable hour, finished the last of the painting, and were the first ones to leave the site at 11am or so. Got home, Jason put everything away, which was dead-easy without a tent, food or dishes.
The last few years we've attended Quad War and seen the personal cabins I'd been idly toying with the idea of constructing one. Touring the site on our own this weekend neatly erased that notion from my mind. The problem with leaving a structure to its own devices for 90% of the year is that nature tends to move in. Most of the cottages/sheds were revolting. Covered in mouse and pigeon poop and generally unlivable as far as I was concerned. last night, we finally bit the bullet and laid down some big bucks for a lovely pavilion. We probably spent around the same that most people spend to build one of these sheds and we can use ours in multiple locations. In case anyone is curious, this is what we ordered, in white and blue. Our original notion was for yellow and red, but they sold out of that colour before we could place our order. I've quite warmed to the idea of blue and white anyway. Good baronial colours and all. Shockingly, the shipping was almost as much as the tent itself. If we'd lived on the US side of the border it would have been much more reasonable, but living way up here we can't even try to get it shipped to someone else and pick it up ourselves. We weren't really ready to lay down the extra $200 to ship it, but figured there isn't really a cheaper/easier way to get a pavilion, so we just sucked it up. This is my BIG birthday present. I figure I won't be getting another birthday present until my mid-thirties. It should arrive by this time next week. Now I just have to make poles and stakes and we're ready to go. And some sort of groundcloth. Any ideas?
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Date: 2006-05-25 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-25 05:18 pm (UTC)As for the rope, we were lazy and bought that with the tent. No idea what kind of tarp to get either. I'm thinking plastic=yucky, but no idea where to get a canvas one.
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Date: 2006-05-30 02:13 pm (UTC)As far as canvas tarps, what about painter's drop cloths?