This is a cry for help

[featherynscale]

As most of you know, we're off to DragonCon over Labor Day weekend. This is good.

However, there are a couple of things we need some help on, if someone would be so kind:

1) saffronhare/agrnmn: Can we come over tonight or tomorrow and use your sewing machine?
2) General population: Could someone come over and feed the beasties? druidevo said he would take care of it, but that was before the thing about moving to Lawrence. We will feed them Friday morning, but the Black Beast is used to getting fed daily lately, and the Small Spotted Beastie goes through a bowl of frisks every two days or so. We'll be back late Monday, so we're probably just talking Saturday/Sunday here.
3) Also general population: Does anybody have a pair of black fingerless gloves (short, not elbow-length), and/or a black coat with tails that they would be willing to loan us for the trip?

Thanks muchly!

Comments

[zylch.livejournal.com]

2. I would be happy to feed the beasties.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you! I think you know where the beastie food is, if not, drop by sometime between now and then and we will demonstrate. :)

[zylch.livejournal.com]

IIRC, the Spotted Beastie food is somewhere in the upstairs bathroom with the Spotted Beastie's bowl, and the Black Beastie's food is somewhere in the Garage of Doom (and Stuff). What quantities are appropriate for the respective critters?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You are correct on location.

The Black Beastie gets a green bowlful of food every day (I feed him in the afternoons when I get home, but being a dog, he's pretty adaptable). The Spotted Beastie gets a bowl of frisks as necessary, i.e. just check the bowl and refill if it's empty.

The Black Beastie takes his water from the kiddie pool (as long as it's warm enough that the kiddie pool doesn't freeze over), but we will refill him before we leave, so he should be okay on water. The Spotted Beastie has a clever coke-bottle sort of container attached to the feeding dish, which also we will fill, but you might want to look at, just to be sure. She's very pathetic when she notices she's out of water.

You bet.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

We may be a bit entangled with ordinary things like laundry and dishes, since we've got water now, but you're welcome to take the machine with you or camp out at the dining room table. Please note that I'll be trying to get to bed early...maybe you'll need to lock the door behind you.

Re: You bet.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nifty. Thank you!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Doesn't sound much like pleading to me...you're awfully cheerful for that sort of behavior.

In any case, not so much pleading as moping, but check the Clanedar for possible changes to tonight's plans.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Maybe pleading makes me cheerful.

How late are you going to be tonight? I think I can go on my own... all we need is green fringe, yes? I got bodice lacing and silver bells today already. If you like, I can stop at Hancock's on my way home and get the fringe.

Maybe just being on your knees makes you cheerful.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I suspect if all we need now is fringe and the second piece of green, our time is better spent with you getting what we need. Glad you found bells.

I *should* be done by 7-ish, which begs the question of what we do afterward. Sewing? Household check-in/9F spice council? Last one was at the end of April, probably about time, with everything going on...

Re: Maybe just being on your knees makes you cheerful.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I don't think we even need the second piece of green, really. I think we can cut a diagonal in the one piece that we have and make both out of it. Unless you think it would work better doubled over.

I understand that Saff is going to be otherwise occupied tonight with the return of water to the house and the sleeping, so probably won't want much to do with us (relatively speaking). We can do the sewing either tonight or tomorrow night, your call.

Re: Maybe just being on your knees makes you cheerful.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Aha. I had been debating about trying to double-up the fabric, or leave it as is. The positive to doing it as a double-layer shawl is primarily that it will a) be a little more weighty on the shoulders, less likely to fly away, and b) the underparts where the reverse/fringe seam are are covered. On the negative side, it'll be somewhat harder to make everything line up just right.

We could ask Saff's opinion. IIRC, the green was the $2.50/yard on sale stuff, so it would be a minimal expense, just a slightly larger hassle to make them. Tomorrow night would be after Druid Study Group, is why I was suggesting tonight...but spending tonight at home is fine too.

Re: Maybe just being on your knees makes you cheerful.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I can pick up some more green, then. No big thing.
I'll grab that and the fringe, and then come home. We can sew tomorrow night (and when I say 'we', I realize I mostly mean 'I', because you'll be working and then going to class.).

I need to finish working on my resume tonight anyway, and maybe kittenpants will help me cut teardrops.

Re: Maybe just being on your knees makes you cheerful.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Why don't you just come pick up the sewing machine while you're getting fabic? If it's not too far out of your way, that gives you the option of sewing whenever you like in the comfort of your own home. We don't need the machine back before DragonCon, anyway.

Not that I don't want to spend time with you. :)

Re: Maybe just being on your knees makes you cheerful.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Or that, yeah. :)

Thank you so much

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

that gives you the option of sewing whenever you like

Like at midnight last night. The first Aes Sedai shawl is 80% done, just need to affix the teardrop.

By the way, Satin Sucks, but it's So Shiny. But you knew that...

Re: Thank you so much

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Was a bit worried this morning - I didn't see the shawl anywhere, and thought you might have chucked it into outer darkness in your Druidy Rage.

Incidentally, Coworker D, who is (obviously) of Irish descent, also reports that August is her Month of Cranky. It's my first report of August Crank in Non-Druids. I think I'll write a thesis.

Re: Thank you so much

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Nah, I took it to show C, and it's hanging on the closet door in the bedroom, where the Spotted Beast can't eat/claw/shed on it.

Re: Thank you so much

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Ah, satin. I can only sew with it about once a year, because that's about how long it takes to recover from the last time...

For me, that was last summer's all-night session of sewing the "shoot me" cloak for J's birthday.

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

The girl has the black fishnet hand thingies of (she thinks) sexiness. I'm sure she would let you borrow them. You don't have to worry about holes and stuff, she has torn plenty in them. Let me know.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Do you think triadruid could fit in them?

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

Yes. I just asked the Girl if he could use them (that was an interesting conversation, let me tell you!!) and she said fine, but that if he destroyed them she wanted another pair. Trust me, you can't destroy them much more than she already has, and if I get pictures of you destroying them, with triadruid wearing them, I'll buy her another pair myself. Even if you don't destroy them, I want pictures!! :D

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Well, if he's going to destroy them, I'll make sure he does so in an entertaining manner.
:)
Thank you!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine the Riffraff costume is going to be the one that gets destroyed in an interesting manner...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I don't know -- I mean, we respect The Coat and wish to see you wear it again.