BFC report 1

I promised a con report for BFC but I only got to Friday night. The B F stands for "bare fur"...nudist furries!

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I arrived on Thursday in the early evening, being the first. After going to the wrong door, I met Jeff and Renee. It was a little awkward with them being naked, but it was also awkward because I didn't have much of an idea of what they looked like before actually meeting them. I went in to use the bathroom and took most of my clothes off then, I wanted to take a shower first before I was completely naked. I did that a little after I arrived and we chatted until Odie arrived. Renee and Jeff began to make dinner, the awesome manicotti, while Odie and I watched. Dinner was really nice, we all sat at the table to eat and chat some more. Afterwards we just hung out, waiting for the arrival of Kenari and Tyke. Bijou, Jerrell and Renee's cat, made a rare appearance and I tried to play with her some, she mostly feigned interest. Kenari and Tyke finally arrived late in the evening and they spent times getting settled in and we all got caught up on their adventure getting up there.

Friday morning started off with buckwheat pancakes, bacon, and scrambled eggs prepared by the tigress and racooon. Once again we ate together at the dining room table and had nice conversation, getting to know each other and whatnot. Avalon Fest did not start until 2:30 or so that afternoon, so we had time to first go down there and reserve our spaces with setting up our chairs and also do some meet activities. Back at homebase, we had fun with bubbles on the "balcony" (:P). We had a large wand and a few smaller wands and had a good time making, watching, and of course popping the bubbles. Next we went out to the front of the house to do chalk drawings with those huge "sidewalk" chalk sticks on the porch. Jerrell did a nice mountain scene, Tyke did a self portrait, I did an abstract type piece, and Renee drew a cute tiger. By this point I was getting warm, and bad me I hadn't put on any sunscreen yet. I went inside to block up and by the time I was done doing that, everyone else had come in. We hung around and prepared for AF, getting food and towels and things together. We went down to Avalon a littler early and got situated. This was the only part of the weekend where it rained. It wasn't much, just a sprinkle, and it didn't last long either. If anything struck me as odd during AF it was this: just about everyone headed for shelter when it began to rain. I thought it was kind of funny, since there were no clothes to get wet...there was a bit of a chilly breeze and true towels could get wet, but I still thoguht it to be funny. I was glad it rained and was hoping that at some point there would be a little downpour so I could run around in it. Well, I stayed out and Tyke stayed with me nd I think just about everyone else went under the food tent to stay dry. But that was all for the rain, which was very fortunate for the festival since they had to cover up the sound equipment, and that would have put a "damper" on the performances. (Okay, I got my pun out of the way...). I beleive it became sunny and warm again fairly quickly.

I watched a couple of the bands and also watched the audience, just getting a sense of the other type of people who were attending and getting used to the surroundings. As well as my first nudist event, this was my first music fest. Jack Williams was first and he was great. I especially liked the story and song about his mother. Next was Stephanie Corby and she definately saved the best for last, really belting it out on the last song. The AF songwriters' contest was next. I was getting warm though and used this time to go for a swim in the indoor pool. It was very nice to cool off and splash around a little. There were ample fun noodles to use as well. Eventually everyone else joined me, some going into the hot tub for a soak. After a time in the pool, I went into the hot tub as well. There was a guy in there asking everyone's story and telling us about his...when he asked me why I hot into nudism or some thing similar, I was saved by the person in charge of videotaping AF asking if we were okay with being filmed in the tub. So we were being filmed for about 5 minutes or so, it was difficult to not look at the camera since it was right there. When he was done with that, I went back into the pool to cool down from the hot tub (I like the tubs since they are soothing, but do get me overheated a little) and swam/noodled with Tyke for a little bit. When I was done swimming I went out in time to catch about half of Ricochet's set, a 4 piece "redneck" a cappella group who sang some funny songs. By the end of their set it was dinner time, and we went to the Avalon fieldhouse to eat their catered buffet. It was not spectacular. Apparently in years past with Avalon's own cook it was a quality biffet, but this year was disappointing. It was -okay-, but I expected more. We all sat at a table towards the back and were fortunate to get some entertainment as we were letting our food settle from the members of Ricochet who happened to sit at the table next to us. Back at our seats we got ready for the evening, which included applying bug spray. There weren't too many other people back from dinner yet but there was one woman who felt the need to tell us that bug spray was nothing but poison and to not spray it by her or anyone else. She gave us her life story about how she's allergic to all these chemicals and how the world is being poisoned...yet apparently second hand cigarette smoke isn't poison because she was sitting with a person who must've smoked 5 cigarettes in the following 2 hours. Just another interesting character (like the ones with the ears :P.). Friday night at the fest might be my favorite time. The band that was scheduled to play could not make it, so Tempest filled in. The lead singer looked like he came from the heavy metal textbook yet they also had a member in a utilikilt playing an electric violin. They were on the more heavy electric side, but they played an ecclectic mix of songs, some with a more traditional European folk tune (oh yeah, and what was that instrument the lead played...a double neck electric mandolin?). The energy was awesome, from the band and from the audience. Everyone was getting into it, clapping and some eventually getting up and dancing with the band. When they were initially done with their set the audience called for an encore, and Tempest obliged. It was a whole lot of fun listening to them and it seems like they had a lot of fun playing for us. Back at homebase, Jarrell set up his mega-scope (I don't know the name of the model, but it was a rather large telescope) for a bit of stargazing. He set the scope on Jupiter and we could actually see 4 of the moons and one of the planet's stripes. It was nice being able to see a clear sky, especially since all the rest of us live in more urban areas with bad light pollution. Friday night was when I made my "specialty", puppy chow. With some help from the skunk, I made two batches and it was immediately a hit. Since it was also the night of the Olympics opening ceremony, we settled onto our towels and enjoyed the ceremony. Then it was off to bed.