Baby @Baitcon?

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is rather last-minute to be looking for tips as it's too late for us to reasonably acquire anything that someone here doesn't have for us to borrow, but it seemed worth an inquiry...

DD and I will be at Baitcon with our insanely cute 3-month-old. (In fact, his three-month birthday is at Baitcon. Plus nine months is exactly one year and yep, we will happily embarrass him with that factoid for years to come. :) The fabulous BCC have reserved cabin space for us, though we will also be bringing a tent. My feeling is that a nice big bugproof tent would be more comfortable, but DD thinks a cabin is better. In any case, backup seems like a good idea.

What I don't know is where/how he should sleep. We don't have a pack&play or any other sleep-thing that could come to Baitcon. Right now he beds in with us, but on an air mattress that may or may not stay firm all night depending on weather and whatnot, that seems potentially fraught. (We'll bring a travel swing for naps. And of course there's the carseat...)

Any advice, tips, etc? Maybe you have just the right item that you can bring and we can use for the weekend? Something else?

Julian looks forward to meeting y'all. :)

GPS Location

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

If you want an address to put into your GPS try the intersection of:
Abode and Darrow roads, new lebanon, ny

According to Google Maps, the actual location of Baitcon check-in is: 42.4365,-73.3817 (but Darrow Road no longer has a name at that point)

Last Minute Idea Seeking

[khatru.livejournal.com]

So among the things I'm bringing to Baitcon is 1 bulb of Korean Aged Black Garlic.

I couldn't resist 'black garlic' -- especially with a 'gummy bear texture'... My immediate thought is the garlic with the Black Onyx cocoa (which lends to all sorts of weird names... black on black ice cream?) Anyway, the website says that foods made with it turn out dry, and to add either regular dutch-process cocoa or add extra fat. I don't think that will be a problem with ice cream. :)

I've gotten off track. Garlic! Weird Garlic! Comments (Other than 'eewww'), suggestions? I have *tonight* to do this if it involves kitchen space... (and I'm posting this later than I wanted...) (and just managed to recover it, dammit...)

(Currently: ground cardamom, dried coconut milk, orange flower water, 'black onyx' chocolate powder, kaffir lime leaves, dried spearmint leaves, and unsweetened pomegranate juice rendered down to the consistence of molasses... hubby went back and got rose petals, hibiscus flowers, and the garlic today. The cardamom and coconut milk is for the rose water flavoring; the kaffir and dried spearmint are for the lemon-lime-spearmint sorbet I want to do again. The rose petals will be tossed into the rose ice cream - I don't think I'm going to do anything else with them, and we've done this before with fresh rose petals from the garden up there. I'm pondering what to do with the hibiscus flowers; one thing I wonder is if it will curdle milk, because most of the tea I've had that had hibiscus in it has been milk-unfriendly. I suspect that I may do only a simple thing, just the milk/cream/sugar and the flowers, to see what tastes emerge, and contemplate for next year. I don't have any immediate plans for the orange flower water or the black onyx chocolate. That was bought explicitly to share out, as is the pomegranate molasses.)