That Wonder Under has a shelf life? While making up samples for my applique class earlier this week the Wonder Under I was using shredded my piece when I tried to remove the paper.



Nice, huh? I've never had this happen so I tried it on different fabric, made sure I followed the directions exactly and got the same result. The stuff was pretty ancient (probably over 5 yrs or more) so I wasn't totally surprised. Got new stuff and it worked just fine. Top piece is the old stuff, bottom piece is the new. Lesson learned.

Congratulations to Dame Gwen the Potter who became our Kingdom Arts & Sciences Champion this weekend!

We had about 6" of snow this morning at 6am but it was already raining so it could have been more. It's now sprinkling and the clouds are beginning to clear. There's still plenty of snow on the roads so we're not going anywhere.

Guess who was back in the yard tonight (like about 5 minutes ago)

So last night about 9pm we heard this noise outside. We thought it was one of the cats in the outside cat run but B decided to check it out and found a bear right outside the kitchen glass door with his nose in my now destroyed bird feeder! He snapped a couple of pictures but the flash reflected off the glass so they didn't come out very well. We didn't see the other one until he went out the front door. Pictures be here:

Despite the mud the equestrian championship at June Faire went very well. There were three horses and four riders, two of whom were competing for the championship. Congratulations to our new equestrian champion Arnora from Stromgard!

Thank you to all who came out to ride this past weekend; Her Highness Miranda, Alina, Arnora and Dryfa and their mounts Cookie, Hondo and Lucky.

Thank you to all who helped with ground crew, games set up & tear down and related duties; Johannes, Ula, Gæira Runfastsdottir, Cystennin and his apprentices, Thorin, John the Immobile.

Thank you to Angharad and Madeline who helped me take down the far end of the equestrian field on Sunday afternoon.

If I missed anybody it is completely unintentional.

When I went out to the mailbox this afternoon I discovered a visitor in the woods, a barred owl.  Way cool!

Yesterday at my house.  Supposed to be cooler today.  Currently 93.

It's 12:20 on Sunday, April 20, 2008, I'm about to leave for HL Anne's for the scribal workshop and it's frakkin' SNOWING in my yard!?!?!?!!!!!!

That is all.