Good Things

[dancerjodi]

We had breakfast at Cafe Bagel in Needham (yum) and headed down to grab our monthly milk in Foxboro. DW, they had meat, so we grabbed a lb for you. There was enough change from breakfast and groceries for us to hit a Starbucks on the way home for some pumpkin lattes. We have a couple hours at home to be productive before heading out to Raks Spooki. Brian's down to the wire for finishing up his Rex and is working with DW on his Snow Trooper. I spent last night cutting the muslin and piecing it together for Suave Calrissian and the fit is pretty good, safe for some tightness around the shoulders. Brian is going to tweak the muslin on Tuesday night, cut the fleece and work with him on finishing the thing up.

The rebels are working on the landspeeder today and the imps on the dewback. The parade is a week from today. Whatever happens, I know the groups will look awesome, and we'll have a lot of fun. I think this event is my most favorite of the year.

I had hit the farmer's market yesterday to buy more autumn harvest goodies: green beans, potatoes, kale, some random broccoli (!) and I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff. I washed and cut the beans, blanched them and put in the freezer to hang out until Thanksgiving, and the potatoes are down in our basement with last week's squash to also hang out for the same meal. The turnips are in our crisper drawer (which allows for adjusted humidity, so I turned it low). We have 2 more weekends of the farmer's market, so I want to use them wisely. Less vendors are there each week. I'm having fun with this freezing/canning thing. Tomorrow I'm going to do some apple butter and some ketchup (I have the day off for this energy audit thing).

OK, I'm a big dork, but I love sitting in the den with the fireplace DVD playing. It throws a good deal of light and the noises with our sound system are very much like sitting in front of a fireplace. I'll take what I can get. I did some grocery list making, and I have time to read and do some knitting before we head out to Arlington.

Mal just gets snugglier and snugglier the longer we have him. I'd say that for half of the time we were in bed last night he was squished up to one of us. He's still not sitting on me, but I'm holding out hope for it. :)

Comments

[radegund-lj.livejournal.com]

Where's a good place to watch the Woburn parade from? I kinda want to come see the landspeeder in action. ;)

Woburn Parade

[dancer.livejournal.com]

The parade runs about 2 miles down Main street in Woburn from Rt. 95 (we line up at the movie theater parking lot) and toward the Winchester line. They do close Main street at about 11:00 to traffic, but the parade doesn't start until 1:00, so people either camp it out along the route early or they find some sneaky back-roadsy way in through Winchester or Arlington.

This site http://woburnhostmalions.clubwizard.com/ForMoreInfo.cfm has some information on it, maybe a map on one of the pages (they keep changing it). I know that the directions link gives information on how to get to the end of the route, so parking in that area and walking up the hill to main street may be your best bet. It will make sense if you compare the directions to a google map or something (its pretty straightforward once you can see the streets). :)

Today was the drop dead date for getting both large props ready. If they weren't mostly done by today, they were getting pulled to avoid last minute frantic scrambling/safety concerns. Either way, we'll have an awesome showing of troopers! I'll be with the rebels in my new Fleet Trooper Costume, guarding the Princess, and Brian will be Captain Rex in the back with the Clone Wars folks (Anakin, Grievous, Ventress, Ashoka, etc). It will be an awesome showing, 2 huge props or not! :)

Of course, we're always looking for wranglers to help out along the route, so if you're looking to get your geek on in another verse and can get out there to the theater parking lot, we could always use company from folks along the route to take pictures, keep the few rare drunkards away (this is a more family-focused parade) and to pick up bits falling off of troopers. :) That is, if you feel like walking with a bunch of SW geeks in a parade.

Re: Woburn Parade

[radegund-lj.livejournal.com]

I have done some Star Wars geekery (http://world.std.com/~MHonig/costumes/starwars/starwars.html) in the past, though nothing up to 501st standards. ;) Yeah, I could help wrangle and take photos if you need help, so long as people will forgive me for not having watched Clone Wars. ;)

[deadwinter.livejournal.com]

DW, they had meat, so we grabbed a lb for you

Grill ahoy!!! Any other way is a crime...

Mal just gets snugglier and snugglier the longer we have him.

Some day I'll get Long Cat to snuggle me. Yes. Someday.