Padon's First SCA Event

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Walter and I are part of a group called the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism). This is world wide club that practices and studies what it would be like to live between the 10th century and the late 15th century (well with the addition of the women's movement because we are in the 21sst century). We get together (during the summer) every other weekend (almost) and camp out in local camp grounds dressed in clothing as "period" as we can and camping in canvas pavillions. There are many activities such as fighting in wars (sword, archery, etc) , arts and sciences, siege cooking, bardic and many other competitions. People come and practice their crafts and over all it is a really good time.
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When we go out camping with the SCA we camp with a household called Medlested ("Welcome" in Gaelic). Medlested prides it self on being a bardic group that fights in almost every war through out the summer season. Every night they get together and sing bardic tunes and people come from all over the camp ground (roughly 500-2000 people camp at single SCA event) to sing along and share food and drink that they have made. It is with this group that we planned an archery and throwing weapons event and BBQ in our backyard for the first weekend of June.



We have two acres, one of which is nicely landscaped. It is in the first landscaped portion that Walter and his friend Jason built and constructed an archery range, throwing weapons targets, and a mock castle wall for a mini battle. It was really really amazing and I don't think our yard has looked that good since we bought our house.
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It was great to present Padon to the group who was very eager to meet him, but much to their dissappointment they were only a loud to look and not touch since he was only 5 days old and so new. I was so impressed with the work that Walter had done and he even took time out to watch Padon while the gals in the group threw me a baby shower!

It was a cold and rainy day (go figure in Seattle) but it didn't keep us from having a good time inside and outside and we just made sure Padon was nice and snug.

To top off the night we were welcomed as official members of Medlested instead of just company of Medlested. It was a great time, roughly 30 people came, and they look forward to coming back again.