Weekend Update

As another lovely weekend comes to a close here in the Duchy, it seems time for a bit of reflection. 

It was rather nice to get out and about yesterday even if that meant missing the weekly VWC meeting and not getting up to Luzerne County to roll dice and push lead. It was also the Del-Val Gamers' Game Day and I chose not to go there either. 

Instead, Sandy and I went to Baldwin's Book Barn in Chester County. Baldwin's is built into an old dairy barn that was constructed in 1822. It's now a five-story, so to speak, bookstore with over 300,000 old, rare, and contemporary books for sale. It's amazing. 

Of course, I found something...

After visiting Baldwin's, we headed off to Skippack Village to visit a specialty cheese shop and have lunch. There were two cheeses we were especially looking for, more Norwegian brown cheese and some taleggio cheese, which is often called the Italian brie. Delicious stuff.  

Today, after doing some of my schoolwork, I found myself with a half an hour to kill before a Zoom call, so I thought I would pop onto ChatGPT (we have been talking a great deal about AI in my one Army class) and decided to ask for a background for a fictional English Civil War campaign in a fictional county. I was prompted to do this after visiting one of my usual blog haunts and reading several of the owner's posts about the English Civil War. 

I liked how he based his figures, one large 4-inch by 3-inch base for a unit of infantry or cavalry. Anyway, it made me think and then I got out another Abandoned Project from the Pile of Shame....

After noodling around with some of the figures, I decided to pop down to the local Home Depot to get a broom for suitable pikes, since they are bendy and less prone to breakage and wounding than metal pikes. 

Hmmm.....maybe if I can find another loose figure, 10 foot to a base, make one of the pikemen into a standard bearer... Hmmm....

Well, I think there might be another project to clean up and I think I have found the motivation to do so...wasn't there a Pike and Shot variant of The Portable Wargame? Why, yes, indeed, there was....

More anon.