Happy Birthday, Altavia!<\/p>\n
In just a few short days we will be celebrating our wondrous Barony\u2019s 39th<\/sup> birthday with our first in-person Anniversary in three years! We are so looking forward to all the fun we\u2019ll have and memories we\u2019ll make at this Highland Games-themed event. As His Excellency is so fond of saying, it\u2019s going to be a grrrrrrrreat day!<\/p>\n Looking back on April, we had quite the busy month starting out with Dun Or. It was a lovely yet breezy day\u2026quite the theme in Caid these days as you\u2019ll hear. Thanks to Amabel, we were able to present our Cousins with some lovely custom dice which they loved. Thanks to all who came out and helped and hung out with us!<\/p>\n The next week it was up to Wintermist for me and my ladies as we saw all the amazing artwork being produced in Caid. Our own seneschal, Sibylla, entered the costume review event in the arts&sciences faire and acquitted herself quite well!<\/p>\n The following weekend, His Excellency headed out to al-Sahid for their anniversary on yet another blustery day. However, the wind couldn\u2019t keep our good Niko down and he came away with the title of al-Sahid\u2019s rapier champion for the year!<\/p>\n The next two weeks saw His Excellency and I travelling to two back-to-back baronial investitures, first in Starkhafn and then in Nordwache. Starkhafn was a lovely day full of ceremony, humor, and yes, more wind. Nordwache was a calm and lovely day with much marshalling for Niko and much arting with our friends from Dreibergen for me. Our newest Cousins of Starkhafn, Thomas and Catylyn, and our newest Cousins of Nordwache, Cormac and Dalla, very much appreciated the market bags created by Edith, the chess sets created by Amabel and Edith and the lovely painted boxes by Sibylla and Marianna. Once again, thank you all for you generosity with your art.<\/p>\n Oh, I forgot to mention that on Sunday after Starkhafn, we spent a lovely day in our own backyard at Woodley Park celebrating Robin Hood Archery and Thrown Weapons tournament with our friends from Angels. It was a bitter-sweet day as we said good to our Cousins Johannes and Sophia who sadly needed to move out of kingdom. Honoree stepped in as Vicaress for Angels and there will be a full investiture of new baronage for Angels this September at their anniversary.<\/p>\n Last weekend, His Excellency and a few Altavians made their way out to Darach Anniversary. I hear it was a lovely day with a light breeze and much fun was had by all.<\/p>\n Coming up this month, besides this weekend\u2019s momentous occasion, we have Wintermist Anniversary on May 21\u2026. which is also an investiture. We hope that you will all be able to join us up there and while the site is small, we will still have some shade in the form of a pop-up.<\/p>\n Then, later that week, is something I think a lot of us have been look forward to for years\u2026the return of Potrero War! I will be travelling down with Cassandra and Monique, your trusty camp mistress, and we are aiming to be there at noon on Thursday. Even if you are not camping with the Barony, please stop by camp and say, \u201cHi!\u201d We\u2019re hoping to have a potluck populace dinner in the dragonwing on Friday evening so look for more info on that on the Book of Faces as we get closer to war.<\/p>\n These notes are a bit epic already, so we\u2019ll save more comments and thank yous for Saturday\u2026save for one more. You might have already heard His Excellency and I mention this but on Saturday, after 4 eventful and joyful years of service, we begin our search for heirs. More will be posted about the details after the event but the general shape is that we will accept letter of intent through mid-August, do polling in the fall, announce heirs at Yule and then have the changeover next May. If you are interested, please feel free to ask us any questions you may have. We hope that there at least a couple of folks out there interested in taking on one of the best, most challenging, and rewarding jobs in the whole of the SCA.<\/p>\n Please know that we couldn\u2019t do any of this without you and we are eternally grateful for the time you all give to the Barony and the trust you have placed in us as your Baron and Baroness.<\/p>\n Yours in Service to the Dream,<\/p>\n Baron Nikolaos Phaistos<\/p>\n Baroness Briana MacCabe<\/p>\n Happy Birthday, Altavia! In just a few short days we will be celebrating our wondrous Barony\u2019s 39th birthday with our first in-person Anniversary in three years! We are so looking forward to all the fun we\u2019ll have and memories we\u2019ll make at this Highland Games-themed event. 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