The tent arrived several days ago, and we put it up as best we could on our very inclined front yard yesterday. We took the dogs out and put them in their enclosure, and made an event of it. We ran out of yard. We could only stake it down on 2 sides, really. It went up easily enough. Hardest thing about it was pounding in the stakes -- there are a lot of them, and while they're not plastic and not the flimsiest metal I've seen, they also ended up bending on a couple of roots or rocks. We might have to take our iron stakes.
The canvas isn't as heavy as our Regent pavilion, but that's ok -- it's sturdy enough. We did stir up some excitement in the 'hood: a little kid was screaming "What is that thing?!" while his dad was walking him around our corner. Miach kept insisting it wasn't any bigger than our current tent, but it sure seems a lot bigger to me. Now that we've put it up and can see how low the walls are, I'm thinking we'll just stick with our air mattress. I'd go with a futon, but that would add another heavy thing for us to carry in/out of camp. We'll see, I suppose.

The big aggravation is that I just spent my entire Sunday making HUGE stencils. My neck, knees and back are aching from so much time tracing and cutting. Everything was working really well, too. I had discovered that you can use freezer paper to make iron-on stencils, which you can then peel off once the paint has dried. So, I figured I'd need 4 big heads, 8 large triskeles and 8 knotwork panels. Miach enlarged the knotwork and triskeles for me, each one about the size of 4 sheets of regular printer paper. I then fitted them together and laid a piece of the freezer paper (plastic side down) over them, and was easily able to trace the design --which I then re-traced for the number of stencils needed, and then cut out. It took HOURS. The sample stencil worked like a charm during the test on the canvas tent bag.
They did not work on the actual tent, however. My theory is that the waterproofing agent on the canvas works so well that the plastic on the freezer paper can't be stuck (using a very warm iron) onto it. It just won't adhere.
So, I drew the Celtic Heads on freehand, and I'll make an actual hard stencil of the knotwork and triskeles tomorrow. Hopefully.
Miach keeps saying we need to do this when the tent is up, but I don't think we can on the roof. The pitch is too severe, even if we got a ladder. And it would require us hauling PAINTING SUPPLIES on top of everything else, so no way.