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[featherynscale]

It's a rich and varied pageant out there, folks. I know this because I consistently find myself sitting down to write an entry and trying to choose one or two out of the eleventy-billion things that I've been involved in or thinking about lately, so that there can be a nice, tight focused entry that is reasonably true, entertaining, and perhaps even point-inclusive. It's a standard I try for, but don't always (often?) meet.

Sometimes, the best I can do is a list of highlight moments. Today is one of those days.

• Wild Hare Samhain on Friday was at our house. Bonfire, torchlit processional, sacrifice of a Wicker Bunny (who was processed to the flames with a rousing round of "Here Comes Peter Cottontail"). The neighbors love this. Also, somewhere in the course of this event, I found myself promising to join ADF. I'm not terribly keen on being a card-carrying member of anything, but it seemed like a good idea at the time, and I think if I can keep off the email lists, it might even be good for me. We'll see.
  
• Saturday morning, triadruid and I went to a pancake breakfast fundraiser for one of his neighborhood groups. Unlike Frank Zappa, we refrained from stealing the margarine.
  
• Later Saturday, wandering around Crown Center, trying to pick up a gift for Sunday's ritual, we discovered that Cy Rudnick's (which, for those not KC-local, is the king of fabric stores) is going out of business. We wandered around their store for a while, hoping that we could think of something we absolutely had to make, so that we could get the fabric at 40% off. Sadly, the only thing that leapt to mind was trim for triadruid's ongoing Forsaken Coat Project, and they didn't have anything appropriate.
  
• We also visited the train shop. I <3 trains.
  
• Much later (after a nap that was supposed to be an hour, tops, but somehow stretched to four hours), we dropped by starwyse's apartmentwarming party, and stayed until she threw everybody out, somewhere around 3 a.m. A starwyse party always comes out with a favorable fun-to-drama ratio and this was no exception. Also, during the party, lexpendragon agreed to join the crew of theperilous, as our token ninja. We're still uncertain as to whether he represents an Ambassador from the ninja nation, or a hostage exchange. Anyway, we like him, and are glad to have him around. Also, as usual, met some lovely new people who I don't now recall the LJ-names of. Further also, triadruid was clever and generally rotten to niveus_tigris, and iron_clad earned his talking dirty merit badge. Good times had by all, except kittenpants, who was still dicking with the music for Sunday's ritual at Gaia, and didn't go. She was full of kitten hate.
  
• Previously mentioned Rave Ritual at Gaia. It is completely unreasonable to put on two completely different public rituals (that you have to create a lot of stuff for) in the same weekend. And yet. Fortunately, everybody who showed up seemed willing to extend us a lot of good will, which covered the places where the setup was technically inelegant. Also, I'm too damned old to be doing energetic dance and moving that much woo-woo at the same time. (Not that partying the night before, or skipping 4 days or so of my meds helped any.) Today I'm mostly recovering.