12 March 2011
We spent the day at the Scarborough Renaissance Festival site, cleaning, maintenancing and readying our booths for the upcoming faire season. Remember that March snowball rolling downhill? If we don’t do this now, it’ll be April before we know it, and faire is upon us. So, off to faire we went this morning, only to drag our butts home ten hours later—dirty, sore, and exhausted.
We owe a huge debt of gratitude to those who came out and helped us today—friends and chosen family—generous, talented, wonderful people who helped us clean and move furniture and a million other things. Curtis and daughter Rebecca, and later the rest of the family as well! Whatever would we do without them? Kat and Jeff, who worked hard for me on the Pendragon Costumes side of the lane. Marcus, our manager, and Jordan, his son—an awesome father and son team. Mike and Frank who not only cleaned and schlepped and hauled, but who replaced my broken back door. Rod, whom I adore and I think would do just about anything we asked. Steve, who did such a beautiful job on the garden-building! (We sent him and Curtis to Home Depot and they procured everything we needed to have a successful work day. And with my birthday Home Depot money I got “rocks” and they look awesome! LOL) Dwayne, whose decorating touch makes the East Wind Games booth a real thing of beauty. And, Laura, who was perfect in her efforts to make our living space habitable after ten months of un-use.
The end result of the day, is two clean booths, ready for product set-up, a new door, a new garden, a new floor plan at East Wind Games, a bunch of sore muscles and two much-emptier beer coolers! 
Okay, not all fun, perhaps, but satisfying.
As we drove off site, this collection of trash cans awaiting the day the site crew will deliver them to their work zones, caught my eye. I kind of like the repetitious patterns and shapes.
28 Days ’til opening!
~MB
