decadence-msg - 8/20/07 Decadent SCA camp sites. NOTE: See also the files: pavilions-msg, tent-alt-msg, p-tents-art, SCA-gates-msg, tent-interior-msg, tents-weather-msg, camp-kitchens-msg, camp-showers-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ Some people's idea of camping involves a back pack. Mine involves a U-Haul truck... Lady Anne du Bosc Known as Mordonna The Cook From: meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org (meg) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: Sleeping at Pennsic (was newbie) Date: Mon, 23 May 94 01:13:34 EDT Organization: Stonemarche Network Co-op Megan here. And then there was the year Claus first came to pennsic. He 'borrowed' (read stole) my period pavillion, since it was the first year I had my cabin, and he figured I didn't need my pavillion anymore. He fixed up the outside so it would look really authentic. He set up his workshop in another tent...again, striving to make everything look just right. It was all in all a very fine encampment. During the week, a group of dukes came by to judge a period pavillion competition. The loved the outside. The inside, however... He brought our bed from home...headboard, metal frame, boxspring and mattress. He brought a floor lamp, a carpet, an easy chair, a refrigerator, a microwave, a toasteroven, a comic book rack full of comics, and a lava lamp. Sigh. Of course, since then, he has repented, and mended his ways... Megan == In 1994: Linda Anfuso In the Current Middle Ages: Megan ni Laine de Belle Rive In the SCA, Inc: sustaining member # 33644 YYY YYY meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org | YYYYY | |____n____| From: corun at access4.digex.net (Corun MacAnndra) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: YKYITSCAW Date: 1 Jun 1995 07:06:48 -0400 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA In article , Razmus the Innocent wrote: > The ideal vehicle? An old school bus: painted like a viking >longship, complete with brackets to hold shields (esp scuta) to the >exterior walls, and a central mast. (A drummer would just be the >icing on the cake.) (Add a mattress and a built in beer cooler, and >one could minimize the amount of mud you would have to clean out of >your gear when it rains all weekend!) Actually Razmus, it's been done. At Pennsic XX, as I was walking up to take a shift at Security one afternoon, I happened to arrive in the area of Troll at the same time the Viking Long Bus pulled in. I think the tape player was blaring some Wagner, but the shields slung from the windows was a nice touch, and if memory serves, they had a dragon prow mounted on the hood. I still don't know who they were, but they were having entirely too much fun. It was great. In service, Corun =============================================================================== Corun MacAnndra | What's coming at you, Dark Horde by birth | is coming from you. Moritu by choice | Jack Flanders From: corun at access4.digex.net (Corun MacAnndra) Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: Those Magnificent Gentles and Their Flying Dome-Tents Date: 11 Jul 1995 08:44:45 -0400 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA In article <3treokINNmq9 at iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu>, william thomas powers wrote: >wilelm the smith who last pennsic spent the time during major storms >in a 8'x12' raised floor, post&beam, mortoise&tennon framed tent, >lounging on the built in double bed and wondering what all the fuss >was about----Better Living Through Decadence! In service, Corun (who was wondering the same thing while lounging on the futon in his yurt) =============================================================================== Corun MacAnndra | The first rule of intelligent tinkering Dark Horde by birth | is to save all the pieces. Moritu by choice | A. Leopold From: Andrew Tye Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Hot Tubs was Re: Caidan Camping Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:56:39 -0800 Organization: Oregon Public Networking On 23 Feb 1997, NatalyaDeF wrote: > "A Turkish bath, called in Scythian _tzerga_, with a hide > cistern of red leather; 12 three-measure pitchers; 12 grates > for the bath (pp 105-7)" > > Ah ha! Just as I suspected! For all of the criticisms we Caidans take > for being not authentic enough, it is obvious that we are actually on the > cutting edge of historical research about this whole hot tub thing..... > > Natalya Ivar here, About 10 years ago or so I remember a household from the Barony of Allyshia, (Humboldt Cty., CA) that showed up at an Egil's Tourney in An Tir, and at a Purgatorio in the West with an early-60s Lincoln, (or some other piece of big Detroit Iron), towing a trailer that had a large wooden hot tub on it. They would dismount the tub, fill it with water, and then disconnect the radiator on the Lincoln and run a pair of hoses from the engine and water pump to the hot tub. It would take about 3-4 hours of the engine at idle to bring the tub up to temperature. (The tub held about 16) I hope they were not using anti-freeze. For myself, I'll stick to the wood-fired baths at Clinton War. Ivar Hakonarson Adiantum, An Tir. From: "Morgan E. Smith" Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Subject: Re: Hot Tubs was Re: Caidan Camping Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 07:37:38 -0700 Organization: Calgary Free-Net A gentle named Geoffrey of Cyrtenham(sp?) started the hot-tub/car radiator thing about fifteen years ago at Clinton. It will always be remembered fondly by me, as he brought it to an Avacal Regional Tourney one year, and a lady with whom I had a long and acrimonious history sat with me in that tub, and we drank wine, soaked and not only resolved all our differences, but became, after that, very close and dear friends. Hot tubs are the ultimate leveller, and far pleasanter than the alternative methods of resolving disputes. Hmm? Maybe this bridge could use one? Morgan the Unknown Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:37:07 -0400 From: Elaine Koogler Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Items of Possible Interest To: Cooks within the SCA Daniel Phelps wrote: > Ran across these and figured at least the first would be of some > interest. > > www.campfireinacan.com > > It is a "flambeau(?)" type arrangement for a vertical campfire. I guess for some folks this would be good, but I prefer a regular horizontally-oriented campfire! > www.roundthecampfire.com > > This is a cast iron clamp shut "pie iron" arrangement for cooking > sausages and cornbread. The pie irons are a great idea. Plow and Hearth (www.plowandhearth.com) also sells the fire rings. > www.peak62.com > > There is one of those foldable collapsible fit in a bag tables and > a windup, with a crank, blender. Now this is a GREAT idea...just think: Pina Coladas at Pennsic!!!!! Kiri Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:20:14 -0400 From: "King's Taste Productions" Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Items of Possible Interest To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" We'll evidently have a marine-battery-powered-solar-recharged blender in camp this year as well - somebody is addicted to his smoothies :) Christianna <<< Pina coladas at Pennsic? You should drop by the Western encampment and ask Sir Geoffrey Scott about this. He has a blender powered by a garden mower engine. It's been a popular item at war parties for a year or so. Cordelia Toser >>> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:45:58 -0400 From: "Daniel Phelps" Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Items of Possible Interest To: "Cooks within the SCA" Was written: We'll evidently have a marine-battery-powered-solar-recharged blender in camp this year as well - somebody is addicted to his smoothies :) Christianna Check out Cabelas' Catalog they have a battery powered one and one that looks like a cross between a blender and a chainsaw. Comes with a very nice case. Daniel Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:01:19 -0700 From: "Laura C. Minnick" Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Items of Possible Interest To: Cooks within the SCA At 09:05 AM 7/15/2006, you wrote: > Pina coladas at Pennsic? You should drop by the Western encampment and > ask Sir Geoffrey Scott about this. He has a blender powered by a > garden mower engine. It's been a popular item at war parties for a > year or so. > > Cordelia Toser I thought the booze whacker was banished? Alail said something about it earlier this weekend (I just got home from An Tir Coronation) and everyone agreed that a two-stroke engine has no place at a camping event... Of course, the only blender drink that I like is a margarita. Given the choice, I'd much rather have ouzo. 'Lainie Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:25:04 -0700 From: "Dan Brewer" Subject: [Sca-cooks] Hand cranked blender To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" http://www.realgoods.com/shop/shop6.cfm/dp/602/ts/4063867 http://www.gsioutdoors.com/products/lexan/73365.html For those of you that can provide your own power and not rely on a gas motor. Dan in Auburn Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:23:22 -0700 From: "Laura C. Minnick" Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Silly Season Starts August 4 To: Cooks within the SCA > But I am with you in the Stuff That is Necessary to Camp With... If I were > to drive to Pennsic with all of my Stuff, it would take a week to get there, > two weeks camping and a week to drive back. When I go, I plan to fly there, > find a nice B&B with a hot tub, and day trip it. You never saw all of the > Stuff that I brought with me when I camped at GWW, which is only 45 minutes > from home. Two loaded station wagon trips, so that I would have that > "home-away-from home" feeling... Sigh... I am so effete... > > Huette Heh. Well folks, I camp pretty decadently- full-size bed with four poster frame and curtains, rugs, occasional tables, trunks, candelabra, washstand, and sometimes my pre-dieu. The pavilion is 12x16 up, no guys. The kitchen goes up under the dayshade out back- full service, water, stove, coolers, tables, and dishwashing assembly. Could be my old days of playing Tetris, but I can fit all of that into an 82 Volvo wagon. With room for a passenger even. Oh- almost forgot- there's a 9-foot spear on the roof, too... Now what I _really_ need is a sedan chair and a fleet of good-looking slave boys to tote me around site! (oy, especially the Coronation site last month, where no matter where you go, it's UPHILL!) And someone to wave a big feathered fan in my direction, and someone to bring me tasty treats. :-) Must go now- my favorite Cabana Boy is due into town any minute! 'Lainie Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:12:03 -0700 From: Mark Hendershott Subject: [Sca-cooks] Powered blenders To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org Some while ago there was a discussion here of gas engined blenders. I received a catalog from Northern Tool today. They a sell one quart blender with a 23cc gas engine. $250 for those comtemplating the purchase. Simon Sinneghe Briaroak, Summits, An Tir Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:35:35 -0700 From: lilinah at earthlink.net Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Powered blenders To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org Simon Sinneghe wrote: > Some while ago there was a discussion here of gas engined > blenders. I received a catalog from Northern Tool today. They a > sell one quart blender with a 23cc gas engine. $250 for those > comtemplating the purchase. One of our stickjocks - eventually a Prince and later a Knight - made a powered blender by combining an electric blender with a WeedWacker. He made it for Royal parties, so they could have blender drinks at events, since nearly all ours are camping in rather undeveloped settings. He called it the BoozeWacker. It was annoying under any circumstances, beyond annoying after 10 PM, and downright rude around midnight. I don't know if this intentional one is any quieter - but if sound is a factor, i'd watch out. There are hand crank ones - not cheap, but about 1/3 the price. Maybe they can't make a Margarita really quickly, but they'll be quieter and give the user some exercise :-) -- Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM) the persona formerly known as Anahita Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:46:50 -0600 From: "Georgia Foster" Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Powered blenders To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org Weed Eater now makes a version using the power head and a blender converter. It is called a "Tailgater". The Romanii in Artemisian Royal had one at Pennsic. Works great ... but MAN is it a gawdawful noise. Malkin Edited by Mark S. Harris decadence-msg Page 7 of 7