2011 Texas Renaissance Festival 10/8

[Zardoz]

If you guys go and take "weapons" don't forget your peace ties...
I was getting cash out of an ATM in the drizzling rain when I was approached by a polite TRF employee who noticed that my sgian dubh was not secured with a peace tie. I tried to explain that the knife was for cutting food and there was really no way to secure the knife to either it's sheath or anything else. We both laughed and he said he was just doing his job and I could get one at any of the weapon vendors. I wrapped one around the sheath, cut the tag end short with the sgian an then sheathed the knife. :-/

First time for everything! I don't recall ever hearing that one before!
TRF certainly asks that blades be tied, but they are talking about swords and axes etc... the folks who's job it is to worry about that stuff pretty much know that you can't really tie down a sgian dubh.
But there are a lot of 'new' employees at TRF this year. I'd chalk it up to the really small crowd Sunday, somebody didn't have enough to do.

Truth be told, In spite of the rain I wish I'd have gone Sunday instead of Saturday, there were about 20,000 less people!


The Girltouage and I on Saturday morning