The 'Chanoyutah' group here in Salt Lake just finished a day long series of demonstrations for the general public at the Nippon Matsu-ri Festival on Saturday. My dowgs are beat and my knees reeally hate me, but we all had a great time. Our theme was "the pioneering spirit" with a tori-awase of a pioneer kettle form the 1880's, a bean crock from the 1860s, a writing from Sen Sosa, Grand Tea Master of the Omote school, a Papagano tribe pineneedle incense basket, A Navaho tribe pottery Hira-chaki, and Fukusas made from Western Bandanas (red for the girls and blue for the boys). We suspended the kettle with a chain and hook from a tripod made of ash wood and lashed together with twine. The "fire" was a set of sterno cans surrounded by rocks. It all happened on red felt for a 'Nodate' style effect. It was great fun. We will have pics up soon on chanoyutah.org so any of you can see how it went. I am so glad that there is a tribe for tea here on this sight. I hope that I can make some good friends here and maybe get the chance to serve you some tea someday. Best wishes to you all---Randy/Urasenke .P.S. if you have any questions please feel free.