If I have any readers, other than myself, you are probably in the SCA and by now lamenting the fact that everything has been shut down.  We were going to kick off the opening of the Kingdom in the beginning of August with my Barony of Twin Moon’s annual Middle East Feast, but due to Arizona becoming a major hot spot for COVID (aka we opened up too soon) we had to cancel our event.

During our time in isolation I did a few things…finished up the Queen’s Graces and the Commander of the Queen’s Grace and made a Seax (along with a sheath for it).  I also have read two books (“The Great Siege of Malta 1565” by Ernle Bradford and “1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West” by Roger Crowley.  Moving on from those two, I have started reading two more books (“Gods and Myths of Northern Europe” by H.R. Ellis Davidson and “The Last Battle” by Stephen Harding).  Once I have completed those, I plan on purchasing “The Accursed Tower” by Roger Crowley for my future readings.  I am also looking at a few books about medicinal plants as well as roadside geology of Colorado and New Mexico.  I do have a rather wide range of topics I like to read about (I got that from my father, who in his retirement is driving my mother crazy with the amount of books he had read and has stacked around the house.  She swears he is trying to kill her with those stacks).

For Father’s Day and my birthday, my wife gifted me with a manual industrial strength leather sewing machine.  Since it is a knock off on an old Singer sewing machine, made in China, it is covered in oil and requires some TLC before I can start using it.  It does work and it has good reviews on Amazon and I have several projects I am thinking about.

I am also reviewing several wood working blog and YouTube sites since I have a desire to make medieval furniture…mainly boxes.  And finally, I play Elder Scrolls Online…which is were I spend a lot of my free time.

Despite all of that motivated sounding stuff, I have had the Lion of Atenveldt scroll sitting on my art table for the last 3 months and cannot bring myself to complete it.  I have it all laid out in my head but the motivation is not there.  I also feel that my time in the SCA is coming to an end.  There a personal and political reasons for my feelings on this but end goals are not being met and my time could be better spent.  Maybe I will go, maybe I wont…we will see after this whole COVID thing passes.

* I am going to edit this post soon to include some pictures and links.

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