Kevin's musings

Nimby Twyla 1999-03-18 to 2006-06-13

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Well, I seem to have taken 91 pictures this weekend. Most of them of Twyla (Imagine that!)

I’m going to go through them and do a proper photo post (or perhaps 2) later, but if anyone wants to look at all 91 of the pictures, you can go to:

Saturday pictures
Or
Sunday pictures

Off to get ready for the role playing groups arrival and try and get Twyla to eat a bit more…

Twyla hasn’t been doing at all well today. She doesn’t want to do stairs, has trouble breathing, and in general no energy.
She did scarf down the hot dogs I gave her, but turned up her nose to the nice smelly canned dog food.
This afternoon shes done somewhat better, managing to make it out to the yard to do her business and back, and she’s been able to sleep a bit, somewhat peacefully looking.
There’s a chance she’s just wiped out from the faire, so I am going to see how she’s doing tomorrow before making any decisions, but if she’s at this level from now on, it might be time to help help her go. She’s not having much fun at this point.

Have a bunch of pictures to upload, will probibly do that tomorrow…

It was nice to see lots of friends and folks out at faire. On saturday Twyla was pretty raring to go, and managed to make it up to the booth without much trouble. She was lower energy than normal, but she really liked the attention. I have a few pictures of her grinning when people are petting her. Sunday she was even lower energy and we had to take a number of breaks on the way up the hill, she really got tired out sunday afternoon, but did manage to make it to the car ok. I did have to carry her into the house from the garage tho. ;(
All in all it was very good for her to go out and enjoy. Time is running short for her I fear…

This weekend is the opening weekend of the Colorado Ren Faire down in Larkspur.
It’s gonna be a hot one.

Twyla is not doing that great right now. She’s started having more labored breathing, and has been very low energy.
She didn’t eat much yesterday either. I have been plying her with yummy foods today to try and get her energy up.

Not sure how much faire she will be up for this weekend. Will see on saturday how she does.

I should be anticipating going to faire, but I am just mostly worried about Twyla. ;(
Need to get all my garb together tonight and check through everything, then I need to decide what outfit to wear to what day. I am leaning toward the chainmail tomorrow and the scottish outfit sunday right now. I guess it doesn’t matter much.

This last weekend was the second annual Colorado Castle Faire up near Fort Collins. I didn’t make it last year, but wanted to at least stop by some this year. So, sunday afternoon I headed up there.
First of all, they didn’t have their site marked very well. There was a small and not very orented banner at the turnoff. Took me a while to find the place. The site was pretty dusty. Apparently saturday they had a ton of wind and dust storms.
By no means was it a big faire, but they were trying. They had mead, and a little tavern. The main attraction was apparently some fighting troupes sparring in the middle of the site. There were some romans there who were very nice to talk with. I ran into some old friends there and it was nice to hang out with them and catch up some. There was also a number of folks I knew from the more southern faire.

I spent about 4 hours there and that was just about right. I pretty much looked thru everything and talked to everyone in that time.

Some old friends:

My friend M:

Some of the grounds:

Some of the fighting taking place in the middle area:

Another view of the fighting:

They did have shade for the folks watching the shows:

Looking back at the front gate from the parking lot:

Here’s a few pictures from bazcamp this weekend…

Twyla was happy to get attention:

Some folks relaxing around camp before dinner:

More of the camp:

E, Dj and his new pup Violet: (11mo old keeshound):

There was some frosty paws:

Nice sunset:

Violet:

Passed a milestone on my urban… right when I pulled into the garage coming home on saturday:

This weekend was Bazcamp weekend. Pretty delightfull time. I wandered up there friday evening, getting there just in time for the last bits of dinner. There was wireless, there was lovely outdoor setting, there was lake, there was movies from a projector. All in all a nice time. I was worried that Twyla wouldn’t be up for it, but she had a nice time getting attention from people there, and then later cuddling up with me in the back of the urban to sleep (I put a futon in there, so me and the dogs were cozy).
Saturday was going to be a scorcher, so I headed back home pretty early. I didn’t mean to, but managed to take a nap saturday afternoon.
Then, I headed back to camp in time for dinner saturday night. Very nice dinner… quite yummy pasta and bread.
Saturday night had more movies and geeking and then I wandered home to get back to the pups.

I took a few pictures, will try and get them up tomorrow…