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

[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.