Stronghold
Oct. 8th, 2007 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revchrisWe survived the weekend, but only barely.
It was 86-87F for highs and 94% humidity. The site has a lot of trees around it, so there wasn't much for breezes, either. I think the two of us went through a case and a half of bottles water.
We did, however, have a lot of fun. Maggs did lampworking demonstrations for most of both days while I ran sales in the tent. Saturday started off slow ($25 in sales by 12:30p), but then things picked up until by the end of Saturday it was a "really good show."
Normally we expect that Sundays will start off slow, as everyone has to get done with church first. With a site run by the Presbyterians, you'd expect that that would be even more the case. Shortly after opening on Sunday a couple came in, saw the larger of the two chain flails and were interested. They decided they didn't like the smaller one (I need to put a bigger hand loop on it), and when I took the bigger one down off the display they were even more interested. After he tried it out oh her, and she declared it to be "fairly thuddy, but with just a little sting," they decide to buy it, and gave me a pile of cash. That was about half of Sunday's sales, dollar-wise.
So, now I need to start thinking about making another one. Probably in anodized aluminum, if I can figure out what size rings to do the handle in.
We got everything packed up Sunday night in about an hour and a half, finishing in the dark (the fair ends at 6p, and by 7:30 it's fairly dark, as there really aren't any outside lights). We stopped at the first fast food place we came to (Burger King) for food and dry clothes, and then drove the rest of the way home. When we got back, we parked the whole rig on the street since it was too dark to see to maneuver the camper, and we were both tired. This morning, I got the camper and the truck into the driveway in one try (take a Ford Ranger, add on a trailer with an 11' x 7' box, and then, using only a normal 2-lane street for maneuvering room, back it into an 8' wide driveway). My trailer skills are definitely improving.
Maggs got the tent laundry (side walls and table covers) done today, but I probably still need to pull the laundry basket out of the camper. The tent top is spread out over a bunch of stuff in the basement, and is probably dry by now, so we'll need to decide how we're cleaning it, and then put it away if we're not going to do anything soon. I think Maggs said she's going to unpack the truck back into her cart tomorrow; hopefully there won't be any rain to interfere with that.
It was 86-87F for highs and 94% humidity. The site has a lot of trees around it, so there wasn't much for breezes, either. I think the two of us went through a case and a half of bottles water.
We did, however, have a lot of fun. Maggs did lampworking demonstrations for most of both days while I ran sales in the tent. Saturday started off slow ($25 in sales by 12:30p), but then things picked up until by the end of Saturday it was a "really good show."
Normally we expect that Sundays will start off slow, as everyone has to get done with church first. With a site run by the Presbyterians, you'd expect that that would be even more the case. Shortly after opening on Sunday a couple came in, saw the larger of the two chain flails and were interested. They decided they didn't like the smaller one (I need to put a bigger hand loop on it), and when I took the bigger one down off the display they were even more interested. After he tried it out oh her, and she declared it to be "fairly thuddy, but with just a little sting," they decide to buy it, and gave me a pile of cash. That was about half of Sunday's sales, dollar-wise.
So, now I need to start thinking about making another one. Probably in anodized aluminum, if I can figure out what size rings to do the handle in.
We got everything packed up Sunday night in about an hour and a half, finishing in the dark (the fair ends at 6p, and by 7:30 it's fairly dark, as there really aren't any outside lights). We stopped at the first fast food place we came to (Burger King) for food and dry clothes, and then drove the rest of the way home. When we got back, we parked the whole rig on the street since it was too dark to see to maneuver the camper, and we were both tired. This morning, I got the camper and the truck into the driveway in one try (take a Ford Ranger, add on a trailer with an 11' x 7' box, and then, using only a normal 2-lane street for maneuvering room, back it into an 8' wide driveway). My trailer skills are definitely improving.
Maggs got the tent laundry (side walls and table covers) done today, but I probably still need to pull the laundry basket out of the camper. The tent top is spread out over a bunch of stuff in the basement, and is probably dry by now, so we'll need to decide how we're cleaning it, and then put it away if we're not going to do anything soon. I think Maggs said she's going to unpack the truck back into her cart tomorrow; hopefully there won't be any rain to interfere with that.
