Will & I went up to Highlanf Farm last weekend and stayed till about midnight. The party never manifested but we did do some drumming by the fire.
I dodn't know if we wil get up this weekend, there's so much to do and Duncan (son #2) is flying to Oregon at 7AM on Sunday so that's goinf to be an early day.
On the Isaac thing, I spoke with the lady who is putting on the conference and explained that this area already has 4 yearly conferences and a couple of festivals. No one had even heard of this conference, its the weekend after FSG so no one is going to have any money, and the line up other than Isaac didn't do anything to light my jets. She wants to charge $20 a person if we just come to listen to Isaac speak and do a ritual with him. She told me that was just covering the costs of the food.
She called me back the next day and said she had been thinking over what I had said. She is thinking about rescheduling the conference to mid-Oct. I also spent some time talking to her about the conferences already in this area and if she wanted to something, other than what was already being done, she would have to bring in folks to present topics that we can't get at the other conferences. Such as a professor in celtic mythology to present a 2 hour talk on celtic myth, a history professor to talk about the history of the celts especially as it pertains to celtic myth, a class on gaelic pronunciation with help on key phrases, get Isaac to give his workshop on large ritual production, etc, etc, etc.
So I don't know if the conference of the 25-26 is still on. If it is, I am going to try to get up there but if we have actually slept at the grove, I don't imagine that any of us will be overly presentable.