Some Progress.

.....I actually made a little progress on a few things today. :-)

.....I unburied the hammered dulcimer and worked a little on tuning it. It's going to be a little while though. It has been closeted for a while. I suspect that it will not 'settle' for a couple of days as it acclimatizes to being actually played and NOT being in its case. I was chasing strings all over the place. As I tuned a pair and moved on to set it against the next, I would finish that second one just to find that it did not ring true to the first one. Part of it is me having to re-figure out what I'm doing, I'm sure.

.....It was a pleasure to hear the strings being struck with the hammers though. I could listen simply to the notes being struck and think it wondrous music. :-) Which I found myself doing way too often. :-)

.....Pulled out the tiny loom I borrowed from TBT and re-figured out how to RE-start the card weaving. Finally made it to a point where I was getting the tension to an acceptable level (where the shuttle thread could no longer be seen :-)). I think I'll bring that with me to work on this evening at Fight Practice.

.....Went out to have lunch with Gwen over on the West side of Bremerton. I'm working on trying to convince someone from Dragon's Laire to go out for the Kingdom Arts and Sciences Championship sometime. I think that Mistess Gwen has a repertoire that could make the grade. Now just have to convince her to do it. :-)

.....Worked on a second stanza for my epic. Definitely needs some work, but will record it here for future effort:

With skillful fingers a great spell she wove.
Her hands moved in an intricate life dance,
As faster and still faster did they rove.
A blur of flesh on this cloth of romance.

Arose then images of elegance,
From wafting colours floating in the air.
The specters of high kings did they enhance,
As willing souls allowed them to ensnare.

All that was ill of health was then laid bare.

.....Time to get cleaned up and ready for Fight Practice. It will be interesting to see how many make it there tonight. I suppose it could go either way: not many people because they are all involved in holiday pursuits, or a lot of people because they are all on vacation and looking for something to keep them entertained. :-)

.....O.K. enough delay. Time to roll...

.....Aaron / Arontius.