MDRF 2009

[Sir Edward]

It was pretty muggy today. By the end, I was dying to get out of the armor, but mostly due to my back muscles rather than the heat. I strained them a bit this week hunching over my mail to make repairs and improvements, which made carrying the helmet a painful exercise. But it was a fun day, and a rare treat to be able to wear armor at all on opening weekend!

Check these out:

   

[Dragonlover]

Looks awesome sir Edward!!!!1

[Sir Brian]

In deed! I love the second picture especially! Fantastic!

My wife also caught us in our battle with deadly spurs! 
"Noble knights prepare for battle!"

"LAY ON!"

[Sir Edward]

Haha, this is most excellent. Tales will be told of this noble duel!

[Sir Edward]

Well, I'm watching the weather like a hawk again. Figures that so far they're calling for rain this coming weekend again. I hope that changes!

We keep getting beautiful weather on my pager-duty weekends, and I've missed about 2/3 of the faire season.

I'm anxious to give my plate armor a workout.

http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USMD0113.html

[Sir Brian]

Funny thing is they were forecasting rain this past weekend all during last week right up to
Friday afternoon then it changed to a few showers early Saturday morning, which happened
but stopped by 5 or 6 AM. 

Now the link you provided is saying rain but this one is forecasting less chance of rain.
http://www.accuweather.com/us/md/crownsville/21032/forecast2.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=1&metric=0
I guess we'll have to do the old wait and see game!

[Sir Edward]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed because I'm running out of faire season!

We only have 3 weekends left, of which I can only go to 2, and I won't be there on the Saturday of the closing weekend, so I'm down to only 3 faire days left.

[Sir Brian]

Well you and Kat could always invade CRF in November with Rosemary and I.

[Sir Edward]

I think the weekend we're thinking for CRF is Nov 14th. I'll have to check with her.

[Sir Brian]

So who is going to MDRF in armor this weekend? The druids have revised their forecast a bit...
http://www.accuweather.com/us/md/crownsville/21032/forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=1&metric=0

http://www.weather.com/weather/weekend/USMD0113?from=36hr_topnav_undeclared

Saturday still has more of a chance of rain than Sunday, so I think I'll wear armor on Sunday but I'm
good for either day if anyone is planning to wear armor on Saturday. 

[Sir Edward]

I'm going to watch the weather reports pretty closely, but right now I'm still hoping to aim for Saturday for armor, just because it's nice to wear it when I'm rested. If I'm up to it, I could wear one kit each day. Heh.

My hope is to get the plate armor out. If the weather report remains as a light chance of small showers, that's probably not enough to stop me at this point.

I really want to see if the report changes at all tomorrow though.

[Sir Edward]

http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USMD0113.html

Morning showers, then partly cloudy the rest of the weekend. I can probably armor up in that. I'm tempted to wear armor both days, and get both kits out there. You know, take advantage of the cool weather. We'll see if I feel up to it!

[Sir Brian]

Damn it I missed seeing you in your new and improved steel armor! 

With the forecast for some rain, I decided to work and make some overtime to help pay
for our stupid car repairs. 

[Sir Edward]

The rain was pretty light and infrequent on Saturday, so it wasn't too bad. But it all worked out OK today anyway:

[Sir Brian]

Thanks for wearing the steel two days straight, I know how uncomfortable that can be and appreciate
getting to see your new and improved steel harness!

btw, sorry I missed saying goodbye yesterday! I thought you, Kat and Marie would come over and join
us for the small combined birthday/anniversary gathering we were having. It turned out to be at the
White Hart. There were plenty of cup cakes to go around!