2022 Happy To Be Here

My children… okay, adult children, have found a book to enjoy. It is a murder mystery that is put together in the wrong order. Bel is scouring through it with post-it notes and a notebook.  The book is made so that the owner can cut out the pages to rearrange them into the right order. If only I could have found homeschooling materials that were so interesting when they were kids! Other happy things from today: The milkweed has started growing the seed pods. They are so cute! Wild sweet William is blooming amid the weeds of the flower garden. Today I reached day 1300 on DuoLingo. One of the things I forgot to mention about the GNEW is how wonderful it was to see so many of the activities sheep themed. There were sheep on the fighting fields and I think as thrown weapons targets. My favorite was the archery target that had little sheep dangling that were to be protected from the wolf just beyond them. The objective, of course, was to hit the wolf while missing the sheep. ☮ Curr...

Our first schtick was prior to their majesties first court this morning.  This war we do for fun is over lost sheep.  There is an offending Barony that claim to have had nothing to do with the disappearance of our sheep at sea.  This morning they say they found someone who might be the culprit and, all in fun, the culprit was placed in a pillory.  Again, this was all in fun, the person placed in the pillory played the part of the culprit and in real life actually made the pillory.   Okay... I'm having technical difficulties.   I'll write more tomorrow.  ☮️ -

Keziah and I are at the Great Northeastern War.  Gideon and Zed will join us later in the weekend leaving Bel and Zed's mom to watch the animals at home.  Here are some happy things from today: -Because of the event, I took the volunteer time off when it became available and left work super early.  Next week I will regret this choice, but now, I know it was the right choice.  I was able to pack better, look for things, and not do these in a time panic. -We managed to time our arrival just as the rain was ending.   -There are people that I haven't seen in quite a while and it is really great to see them.  We had a bunch of help with set up from a gentle that we have seen recently.   All the help we've had has been very appreciated.  I'll work harder tomorrow for some better pictures. ☮️ I'm using my phone to write this over the next few days and I'm lazy.  So today I read a little from the same books I did yes...