The good:  Glorious weather, much merry making and walking the Queen’s parade route.

The bad:  On the way to the faire, my SIL Jezabel called to tell me that my Faux-lder* brother had died.  He was only 5o but had heart problems in the past.  But this was so sudden it leaves us all in shock.  I cannot even remember a time when he wasn’t part of the family and this has hit Maurice hard.  They are the same age and of course anytime something like this happens-someone your age dies from something like this, it really is a shock.   I am sending healing energies to his wife and my brother. 

The crafty:  Hubs made himself a pair of bracers and a baldrick instead of buying them.  We saved big bucks on them and he really enjoys doing stuff like that.

*I guess ”faux-lder”  only works if someone who is your “extra” sibling is older than you.  I wouldn’t even know how to do that if you have a younger “extra” sib.