shiny objects

[rising_moon]

* The Berkshires are still there. Our hosts at the 1886 House impressed with cozy lodging and tasty breakfasts. Over the weekend we stumbled on (and right through) Northampton Pride, plenished our kitchen with widgets at Thornes, hot-tubbed at East Heaven, sushi'd at Teapot, and refilled our lungs with their proper supply of greenery and pine on the mountain. All good.

* MI-3 is missing a theme song. Watching Philip Seymour Hoffman sneer and growl (eevil Lester Bangs) didn't quite do it. Playing hooky on a Monday made it worthwhile. :)

* Benjamin-Moore has an online color-viewer. My workday is over.

* LJ thoughts are turning to the Camping Season, so I begin to wonder... Apart from essentials that appear on all the packing lists (extra tent stakes, first-aid kit, copies of your prescriptions, etc.) what much-appreciated but rarely-mentioned items come to Pennsic with you?

Comments

RE Pennsic

[tracytris.livejournal.com]

My rugs for the yurt floor - i feel they make the whole camping thing so much more comfortable for me.

Re: RE Pennsic

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

Rugs are good, but rugs and the chandeliers add that extra touch...

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

what much-appreciated but rarely-mentioned items come to Pennsic with you?

Teakettle.
T-tunic made from terrycloth ("Pennsic Bathrobe").

[mylisant.livejournal.com]

Aldrich

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

Heh. Does he count as "rarely-mentioned"

There's also a pun in there about Aldrich as a verb, but I'm not going there.

[mylisant.livejournal.com]

No one else ever mentions packing one....

[mzkero.livejournal.com]

if there were more than one to pack, I'd love one! but I believe that you have the only one around. But I'll take him on loan if you need a break from him, or just want to share ;)

[dreda.livejournal.com]

The colour-viewer?!? Oh, no...there goes the afternoon. I love you, Enabler Girl!

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

There are lovely wooden sided coolers currently available at Home Depot for around $100. They are rather nice and more importantly the wood acts as additional insulation as well as lifting the cooler up out of the mud.

A couple of iron hooks to lift lights into the upper section of the pavillion, above the spokes.

A second canopy so that you can open both sides of the tent and let the breeze blow through.

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

There are lovely wooden sided coolers currently available at Home Depot for around $100.

Or you can have Aldrich (see above) build you one. His wooden coolers are insulated with pink foam insulation covered in blue tool dip, and they leak just a little bit ... just enough, in fact, to be "self draining". And they're beautiful (but I don't have a photo handy -- perhaps <lj user="mylisant" does?)

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

I have used that style and they can work well. Still these mate with a rubber or PVC tube, so you can store them inside your tent and send the drain water outside the tent. They also make a great extra seat.

[greenness.livejournal.com]

I bring warm mittens. I've used them about half the years I've taken them. Because sometimes you're too drunk to get closer to the fire but your beer is too cold to hold in bare hands. Oh, and sometimes it's actually chilly. ;)

Ooooh... color viewer... pretty...

[ceo]

Not three days ago, I was trying to figure out how to try out new colors on a picture of my house. Thank you!

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Last year I bought a million new pairs of underwear because I refused to wear a single pair of even mildly uncomfortable or unattractive underwear while at Pennsic. It really helped in its own way.