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As the sign reads:
Death March
Conquered Indians were taken from their homes and forced to carry the immense amount of baggage required for de Soto's expedition and to serve as personal slaves. They were chained during the early stages of the march. Once beyond the borders of their own territory, those who had not escaped continued unchained, staying with the march for protection from the elements and from neighboring enemy groups. Many, if not most, of the Indian porters died from exposure, disease, or sheer exhaustion.
The pirates were awesome at Mercer Island Summer Celebration! Check out SeattleSummerFun.com for details and for more fun stuff to do in Seattle!
Somewhere around Unity, ME our route led us down an old farm road that appeared to terminate at an abandoned house. Around the side of the house this doubletrack was visible, so we continued onward, riding through some mud and enjoying the change of surface. Segments like this on a long, mostly paved route made us smile.
Fnally got the IKEA cabinet together to house my toys. Thank goodness for relatives who are good at that kind of thing :).
Celeste's trip to Camp Clearpool in April 2009 (upstate NY) that she went on with classmates from her school, I.S. 230 in Jackson Heights
Just to be clear, my two painted pieces are here (red parka hood and rock monster). If only they made an ice monster like that (I got the idea from a rock raiders book I read as a kid, there was an ice monster in it)
Look what showed up in today's mail! All right, so the instrument on the left is just a wee bit too modern for my mini-Deryni, but only by a few centuries. But I'm sure Dhugal would have loads of fun with an electric guitar, and if we modern folks can enjoy groups like the Society for Creative Anachronism, then maybe my little people enjoy going forward in time on their weekends. OK, that's a bit of a stretch, but I have to admit that the idea of Dhugal and Kelson rocking out makes me giggle a bit.
I actually bought the pair of ornaments for the guitar on the right. It still doesn't exactly match up to the "gittern" that I had Dhugal and Duncan playing at the end of Visionaries, as from the pictures I've seen of gitterns, they seem to be more like smaller, flat-backed lutes, so a modern mandolin might be a closer equivalent. Our modern characteristic "guitar-shape" didn't come along until the 1600s or thereabouts, if I remember correctly. But still, if musical tech in the Kingdom of Gwynedd is as advanced as their other tech, then maybe it's not too much of a stretch to hope that Duncan could somehow get his hands on an early proto-guitar?
As for the gameboard-in-progress, despite what I said about not planning on making it too fancy, I'm beginning to think that maybe some sort of motif in the central square might pretty it up just a little bit. Perhaps a golden fleur-de-lys?