Heather Dale / Mike and Amy

It was probably terribly wrong of me to go to the heather Dale Concert Friday night rather than to the wedding rehearsal. In fact, the single wisest thing I could have done would be to stay home and sew so that i could in fact get a full night's sleep.

Maybe. I give myself the excuse that I actually needed the recharging, since I was a point where having to work day jobs on Thursday and Friday was *stress relief*. Even before Friday's shift proved to be another really quiet one. That much business.

( The concert )

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Three AM after the concert, I hammered in the last grommet on the back of Brenna's dress. (To my credit dress wise are the cutting out of 2 underdresses and about 80% of the outer dresses, the dead-basic sewing on 2/3 of the dresses, and the fitting and finishing - the *hard* parts - on Brenna's and my overs and unders. This is *not* to understate the results of everyone else; which included three men's tunics in velvet, outfits for four children in either velvet or satin (Two about two-year-old girls, one almost four, and one older boy), multiple banners and all the rest of the sewing and finishing of the ladies' outfits. (The mother of the bride did the bride's dress so we didn't have to.) And that is the *sewing*. Add painting and carpentry and multiple other tasks....

So the first thing I asked when i got to the house where the women were assembling and getting hair done was "So who here has had more than twelve hours of sleep in the last three days?"

The answer seemed to be Teresa, and even she'd only had three the night before.

( The wedding... )

Heather Dale / Mike and Amy

It was probably terribly wrong of me to go to the heather Dale Concert Friday night rather than to the wedding rehearsal. In fact, the single wisest thing I could have done would be to stay home and sew so that i could in fact get a full night's sleep.

Maybe. I give myself the excuse that I actually needed the recharging, since I was a point where having to work day jobs on Thursday and Friday was *stress relief*. Even before Friday's shift proved to be another really quiet one. That much business.

( The concert )

________________

Three AM after the concert, I hammered in the last grommet on the back of Brenna's dress. (To my credit dress wise are the cutting out of 2 underdresses and about 80% of the outer dresses, the dead-basic sewing on 2/3 of the dresses, and the fitting and finishing - the *hard* parts - on Brenna's and my overs and unders. This is *not* to understate the results of everyone else; which included three men's tunics in velvet, outfits for four children in either velvet or satin (Two about two-year-old girls, one almost four, and one older boy), multiple banners and all the rest of the sewing and finishing of the ladies' outfits. (The mother of the bride did the bride's dress so we didn't have to.) And that is the *sewing*. Add painting and carpentry and multiple other tasks....

So the first thing I asked when i got to the house where the women were assembling and getting hair done was "So who here has had more than twelve hours of sleep in the last three days?"

The answer seemed to be Teresa, and even she'd only had three the night before.

( The wedding... )