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	Last Dragoon Event for 2009	-	Mon Nov 16 21:13:36 2009
	Me presenting at Putnam Cottage November, 2009 The 15th was finally the last Dragoon event of the season, wrapping up a hectic schedule for 2009. The year closed out at one of my more favorite venues, Putnam Cottage and the weather couldn’t have been more perfect. Since this event was more of a school show format rather than the usual cavalry demo, I dragged out the currency exhibit again along with a few new props that I acquired (coins!) since I did the first demonstration at the beginning of the year. All in all, things went much smoother this time, though I suspect that the reason was the quality of the crowd rather than the quality of my presentation (those Greenwich folks are much more polite than school kids). Filed under: Rev War. No comments.
	Making a New Pick and Whisk	-	Sun Nov 08 21:37:30 2009
	Making a new pick and whisk chain. Note that the links are about 1 and 3/4 inches long before bending. After bending into a figure eight the final links are just over 3/4 on an inch. At some point of riding around in the tall grass at Old Store Fort I broke my pick and whisk chain and managed to lost most of the chain and the whisk. Given that the chain was made of small gauge brass wire this was inevitable. Given that you really need to have one of these when you do battles, I decided to make a replacement, but with much heaver gauge wire - and not just any wire, gold plated wire! I figured that if it was gold, it would be one less item that I would need to polish before each event. It turns out that all you need to make a pick and whisk chain are wire, wire cutters, pliers with duct tape on the jaws to make a soft grip, a fork, and some spare time. I’ll write out the instructions for the process of making the chain and whisk another time. Suffice to say, the whole project turned out better than expected, though the tips of my fingers hurt for about a day afterward from all the wire bending. Final result of all that link bending. Later on I might solder the links closed to further reduce the risk of the chain breaking, but for now I’ll leave it as it is until I make sure the length is where it should be. Filed under: Rev War. No comments.
	Window Seat Done	-	Fri Nov 06 12:15:36 2009
	The window seat as it looks right now (Nov 2009). Jason finished up the window seat the other day and it looks great! The only thing left to do is try to find some pillows that more correctly match the size of the window seat as it is now. The window seat as it was before it was replaced. As you can see in the before shot, because of the previous size we tended to use the seat as a table since it was too tall and narrow to sit on. It also wasn’t secured to the wall very well, so it tended to move a bit as well. Filed under: Uncategorized. No comments.