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Friday night the DH and I watched Saving Mr. Banks. I really enjoyed it; Emma Thompson was amazing in it!

Saturday was a quiet day; the DH did some yard work, I tidied the house and did some laundry and after lunch we pretended to watch TV and nap. Then Saturday evening there was a free rodeo at the local rodeo arena. There was even a free meal. It was sponsored by some churches and was also an evangelistic event, so you knew going in listening to a sermon was the "price". Supper was a choice of hot dog or hamburger, small bag of chips and a canned soft drink or bottled water.

We had not been to a rodeo in years and years, and it was a lot of fun; the best part (I always think) is the barrel racing, but they also had bronco riding, several roping events, and bull riding. For the kids they had "mutton busting" (sheep riding, which was hilarious!) and a calf scramble (about a hundred kids trying to chase five calves and get a ribbon off its tail. Winners got $20 and every kid taking part got $1. They also had a junior and a peewee class for the barrel racing. The highlight was a little girl in the peewee class--she looked to be about six or seven--riding a pinto. She approached the first barrel and her horse balked. It would NOT go. She sat there and kicked and bounced, and the pinto just set its hooves. then tried to turn and go the other way. She pulled on the reins and finally it meandered around the barrel. It went on to the next two barrels and didn't balk, but it didn't rush any either. She was so cute and stubborn! The only bad thing was: sitting on bleachers for four hours! We are getting way too old for that. Our backs and backsides ached and we were so stiff that we were hardly able to walk back to the car!

I took some pics with my phone, but I'm not sure they came out good enough to post.

Today I did have to work, but it was only a short shift from 10AM to 2PM; I rested this afternoon. After supper the DH went down to the pond at the high school to fish. I listened to music and played around with trying out some Zentangle which I've been interested experimenting with for a while. The DH got home with a mess of crappie and blue gill, which he cleaned and we put in the freezer. Sometime this week we'll have fish for supper.

I wanted to make this post yesterday, but it took me forever to get my pics uploaded!

The DH and I had a great Easter weekend, in spite of my having to work Sat. and Sun. I had short shifts, so I was off after 1:30 both days. Saturday after work, we took a drive to Shawnee, where we found a cool used book store: I replaced my one-volume paperback of LotR, my paperback Tolkien Reader, both of which were falling apart. I also found a paperback edition of CoH, and Tolkien in the Land of Heroes by Anne C. Petty, as well as a nice book on silk ribbon embroidery by Judith Baker Montano. We found the Hancock fabric store, where I picked up some notions that were on sale, and we located a store my husband was interested in, that deals in water features for the yard. We were too late to look around, but plan to go back now that we know it's there. We ate supper at a Boomerang Diner (their chicken-fried steak is to die for!).

Sunday morning it was pouring down rain, so the sunrise service at the church was moved indoors to the sanctuary. It was a brief but moving service, and we got home in plenty of time for me to get ready for work.

When I got off work, the DH and I had a nice relaxing afternoon, watching TV and coloring in coloring books, followed by coloring some Easter eggs. Then we had a supper of ham, green beans cooked with new potatoes, homemade rye bread, a salad made up of stuff from the garden, deviled eggs and strawberry pie for dessert.

I hope everyone else had as nice a weekend as we did!

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I had a really nice weekend! I am now the herald for our local Barony in our SCA group!!

Our little one day free event was held at the new home of our Baron/Baroness. It's an old house, and they've done a *lot* of work on it, and it's really cool. They've decorated the front room to look like a 500 year old pub. It's located well inland, but in spite of that the property lost a lot of trees so they call it "Broken Oaks", LOL! The event was called "NUTS to Katrina", and was very laid back--there was a small tourney, with only four fighters, a games competition, and several classes on things like weaving and so forth. Mostly I spent time talking to friends I had not seen in a while.

I hope to post pictures in a few days.

Yesterday was resting up, although we did go out for lunch at Subway, got gas, and went to Barnes & Noble. I bought a pantograph kit in the remaindered book section, and ordered two books that they don't carry.

Today I have a ton of laundry--including the Baronial Herald's Tabard--which is really, really *hot*. *wheew!*

One more note: as the new herald reading out the names of the winners of competitions, the SCA name of the one who won the Live Weapons (that is, throwing spears, knives and axes at a target) was "Drogo".
I really had to bite my tongue to keep from saying something about Frodo's father!!