"Skum and Phyfe"

10/30/2002

Wow, a whole week has managed to slip by. I don't know where the time goes. Let's get you caught up with the happenings about the castle, shall we?

Two weekends ago (October 19th and 20th), Celly came up form NC in order to attend the last weekend of the Maryland Renaissance Festival with me. On Saturday, the weather threatened rain all day but never produced. The humidity finally left our area which made for some lovely cloak wearing weather. We got there a little after the gates opened and made our way down to the Dragon Inn to greet everyone. While we were down there, Keltik got one of the more interesting Rose Tag hits from Ani. Celly and I left there and went over to listen to Owain Phyfe. Since it was the last weekend we went back two or three more times.

We also caught the last half hour of Shakespeare's Skum. They were playing to a full house so we ended up in the cheap seats on the hill but we could easily hear all the dialogue. Very funny stuff, I'm going to have to remember to catch their full show next year. After that we mostly wandered around and ate. Occassionally we sat and listened to music. Mostly we just enjoyed the last weekend of our favorite faire.

Sunday was the "Day of Wrong" wherein garbed patron's come dressed in even stranger garb than usual. Celly and I didn't do anything this year for DoW because of money and time but we are tossing around a couple of ideas for next year. You can see what other people did though by clicking here.

This past weekend was spent cleaning and working around the house. I mowed the lawn hopefully for the last time this year. I also took the Lad shopping for a pumpkin. Being the good dad that I am, I told him to go look and pick out which pumpkin he wanted. Naturally he picks one of the biggest ones there -- 38lbs. Guess who got to carry it?

The Lad drew out a Jack-O-Lantern face on a piece of paper and I carved the pumpkin. I thought about trying to carve something crafty but I'm not very good at reliefs and the Lad wanted the traditional triangle eyes and a mouth with two teeth on the top and three on the bottom. He was very specific about that part. Next year I think I'll have to get a couple of pumpkins.

I'll put a picture of it up for tomorrow's entry.