And now comes the hard part...

Each year, I come home from Augusta exhausted and not feeling particularly motivated to make another road trip. And now that the Pennsic War has been moved to start on the day I come home from Augusta, it's even harder to get the motivation to come home, unpack and then re-pack right and take another road trip right away. I'm going to try to get some of that started this afternoon and maybe if I get lucky, I'll go out tonight or tomorrow morning sometime. I just wonder how many people will be there to help with set-up, which can be very time consuming and exhausting, and given that I'm still in an air cast until mid-September at the earliest, it's going to be tough for me to be of much help doing some of the heavier jobs that are normally done by those who won't be showing up this year. I have to wonder how many people will show up, given gas prices and other things that have been hard on all of us in recent months. I just hope that there will be enough people to where camp can get set up in a reasonable amount of time. It usually takes about five days to complete camp set-up and in that time, we rarely get to leave camp to just roam around and see friends. We also normally wear our regular street clothes of T-shirts and jeans while we do the heavy work, but what bothers me is how many people stay in their street clothes while in camp and then when they go out, they change into garb, but then change right back into jeans and T-shirts the minute they're back in camp again. It really ruins the atmosphere for me if people insist on only wearing garb if they are leaving camp and if they aren't, they stay in their street clothes. I sweat out wearing garb even if it's a hot day. I have nice light stuff that is cool and comfortable to wear even on very warm days, and I pull my hair up in braids or some other way to get it up and off my neck. But people will do what they will, and I can't convince them to stay in their garb when they are in camp, so, I guess if they want to run around in shorts and tank tops in camp, I can't do anything to stop them from so doing if that is how they want to spend most of their vacation, acting like it's a regular 21st century camp-out where you occasionally dress up in period clothing. So, anyway, I am trying like hell to find the motivation to start packing and get some things done here around the house. I just need to muster the stamina to get started. I'm unpacked from Augusta but laundry still must get done and then packing started in earnest. Guess I'd best get started sometime today if I am to get out there in the next day or so. I just hope that folks understand that I'm a bit slowed by the air cast and can't maybe do some of the heavier tasks around camp but I can still be of a great deal of help doing smaller jobs that don't require a lot of lifting heavy things and moving stuff around a lot. So, here it is, nearly 4:00 in the afternoon and the day's a-wasting. Time to go down the basement and get the plastic crates that everything goes in to War and start studying my packing list to see what all I can get done today with what time is left in the day before I get too tired and want to hit the hay. I hope to be out of here no later than tomorrow afternoon. At least that's a goal I am setting for myself. Let's see if I can accomplish that!