[MR] raising and lowering expectations

[Eirikrindanski at aol.com]

I do agree with being a peroid as possible thats the whole point of doing all 
this. My dear lady and I are just starting out nad has had some success in 
making clothing. At the last event I even purchased two hand made wooden 
chairs for us to use. My wife being of Norwegian descent has a sight were she 
bought 2 raindeer fur hides to cover the chairs , alas I would love to 
purchase a Viking tent I found online but we just dont have the money to do 
that now. I however do have a family hardware store that sells lumber , I 
have drawn up my tent that I would like to build, but alas I have really no 
carpentry skills whatsoever so that will have to wait till I can secure some 
help to build the thing.

As far as hauling things around  I have a friend that I am paying to bulid me 
a cart made of 3/4 inch treated plywood big enough to haul heavy loads , and 
yes I tried to talk him into buliding the tent but a no go on that one.

 I might suggest making these events go from Friday through Saturday and 
getting access to the site for those who do wish to set up tenting as early 
on Friday as possible. I know about the cabins at the events I have gone to 
and the extremely bad conditions of the roads and paths, you would think the 
park rangers or the State would fix that problem themselves before somebody 
trips and is injured. I would rather tent and be closer to what is going on 
than stay in those cabins again buts thats just my opinion.

As far as using todays tents to camp out in maybe some folks that can sew 
would love to make some bucks sowing covers to put over these tents to make 
them look peroid , Lord knows I would be glad to work out some kind of 
payment plan to get one.

As for the coolers , I plan to keep right on using mine . My wife has hand 
sown a cover to place over the cooler and its is big enough so you cannot see 
it. The same with a table cover for our fold out camping table. Lord knows 
there are ways to cover things to make them presentable even if you cant 
afford the bucks to make or have real peroid furniture. Its not that hard to 
do. 


Eirikr inn danski
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