Old Firepit
Purchased from DragonWing Pavilions

For some reason cooking at event is one of the things that really excites me about the SCA. The potential of creating an authentic experience of the middle ages with food just does it for me. That and I'm supposed to cook a feast in November (2006) and I won't have an on-site kitchen. Somehow the idea of serving spit-roasted venison with furmenty cooked in a cauldron over an open fire really makes me happy.

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In July 2005 I finally published my instructions for How to make a wedge tent.

Here's a couple of backup, historical links to go with those instructions.

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Twin slat bed plans:
http://www.geocities.com/wolfram_von_taus/HowTo/Slat_Bed.htm

Modern bed fastenings:
http://housebarra.com/projects/bed2/

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http://midtown.net/dragonwing/col0003.htm

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Very cool camp kitchen setup:

Found here: http://www.roguehaven.org/Events/Estrella2004/Kitchen.jpg

From author (valentinepeter@hotmail.com):
Also, we incorporated our need for coolers as "ice-boxes" which allow
us to place blocks of ice or dry ice in the top with shelves for the food
in them as the "base" of the kitchen, and then place a wood counter-top
over them and top that with folding kitchen boxes that are pre-stocked
with spices, paper towels, tools and utensils needed for cooking.

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When SCA camping, trees are a luxury. Usually we don't end up with any in our camping allotment. That and since we covet Eric space, trees are hard to come by. That means we either have to suffer in the sun (no fun at all) or make our own shade. Option two is the option of choice. There's not a whole lot published about sunshades.

I'm a software engineer not a structural engineer. This means that although I can envision beautiful concoctions, I don't know if they will stand up to the lightest wind. This also means that making my own sunshade has been a long (and ongoing) learning curve.

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A merchant tent from Pennsic
http://www.pennsic.net/grifden.html

I can't imagine "building" a house at every event... but it's impressive.

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Paper mache over a cooler to get a cooler cooler (that looks like a leather trunck).

http://kelly.dwarfworks.com/sca/cooler/

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