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It’s been pretty quiet without the classes and Project Days. Not having the feast this year hurt, too, since that’s always my big thing of the year. Despite that, some things are still being planned. The House is going to have a display at the Greenwood Faire in Toledo at the end of June.
Anja is planning to be at the Lane County Fair in July and also Shrewsbury in September.
September 10-11, 2023
The gardens at Castle Pundergasp are doing well, and a few SCA things are happening. We’re making more of the bone needles, and Anja always has her embroidery. We’re also working on some clay reproduction toys and dolls for demos, plus more balls and dolls for prizes.
In ministerio autem Somnium, Anna Javornica (aka, Anja Snihova’)
Well, friends, House Capuchin has had a good long run. It’s just about 10 years since we started this whole thing. It grew to be quite a big thing for awhile, but things change, and membership and participation has been dropping steadily. I’ve finally hit a point where what I can do isn’t enough and I don’t have enough oomph or help to keep going.
My health hasn’t gotten better since I got COVID for the 2nd time and it turned into long-covid. I’m spending energy that I don’t have to spare to keep this up.
Part of the problem is that I don’t drive, any longer, which means that a lot lands on Loren. He ends up doubling the time out and back and with the driving that he does for his job, I can’t do that to him any longer. He’s also lost interest in House activities and has stopped participating.
Part is financial, as well. Things are tight enough that I probably can’t afford to get to the events, in any case. Also, I went through the figures for the feast and there’s just not enough in our budget to put it on. Business was bad for the shop this year and there’s no extra.
I’m going to leave the website and the Facebook group up. I’ll probably be online on Sundays, but I’m not going make the event pages anymore and I’ll stop doing the reports as regularly, since most of that has been my efforts for quite awhile.
I’ve enjoyed a lot of the things that the House has done over the years, and the friendship of all of you, but it’s time for my major participation to come to an end.
In ministerio autem Somnium, Anna Javornica (aka Anja Snihova’)
This has been quite a year. No events, then thinking we were starting back up and then getting squashed again. Summits Coronet did occur, but with only the absolutely necessary people there. All hail Luciano and Tessina, the new Heirs!
There’s Crown this weekend, which was cancelled and then moved over the Canadian border to this weekend, so that the Crown could attend. Their Majesties Christian and Helene have reigned for a long while. I think it’s a good thing that they had been on the throne before, so that they could easily adapt what they knew to the circumstances of almost two years of Plague.
Many classes, an Ithra and various symposia have been held online. A lot of groups have gotten really creative about it, to the point where Crown is going to be live-streamed and lots of subsidiary interviews and activities will show up online!
Tripot – Borscht at the top, pork stew to left, veg thinnings to right.
Business meetings, A&S nights, live-streams of fight practices, classes and interviews have bounced the SCA into a Virtual World presence, even House Capuchin, since we’ve been holding Project Days and Potlucks online since March of 2020. For those of us whose real-world participation has been restricted by physical circumstances this has been wonderful, but we’re all tired of it and hoping that the Plague will subside and “real life” can happen again.
Herbs (Anja has a garden, now), Cookery, Clothing and embellishments are most of what we’ve been working on, in our various capacities.
Anja has been teaching quite a lot over the last year, mostly blackwork, balls and marzipan. There are a few recordings, now.
We are having in-person meetings at Ancient Light (mostly). Masks are required and social distancing will happen, if possible.
Regrown veg pot
This month (these are standard meeting times) All are in the Virtual Realm at the current time.
Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Thursday, 709pm
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, 1 to 5pm (and online)
Cheese and Wine is an occasional meeting. Watch our Facebook group for notices!
Potluck is 3rd Sunday of the month. Virtual potlucks mean that you set up a meal for yourself, in garb, and get pix of whatever. Sometimes that will be the food (get us a recipe or review), sometimes your plateful, sometimes the table, or you.
The Elizabethan outfit I’ve always wanted! on a doll. Oh well. Believe it or not the doll is a Betsy McCall pattern. Remember her? I bet lots of folks don’t!
Here are the direct Portfolio links which have all the past Project Day reports and all the various projects, just whomp through pictures until what you see appeals to you, mouse-hover on the pic and then hit “view” when that shows.
<sighing heavily> No tourneys, now no feasts… I haz a sad..
…but people are still doing videos of classes and dances and interviews…. so I gets over it. 🙂
Last month’s potluck was fun. “Chicken flour” 🙂 That turned out to be a chicken in almond milk gravy (the “shred” pic”.)
Cooking
Shred
Egg/Cheese/Bacon Tarts
Fried (they got overcooked)
Peach Tarts
Kalamata Chicken
We’re all still “cooking” along. We had a nice potluck last month and are working on this month’s. With it being harvest season the soup pot and the dehydrator have been working overtime. …and mead….
Lots of dried stuff – yellow squash, celery and tomato, lemon, apple, honeydew, cantelope, zucchini, tomato
Peggy has a bunch of nice scroll pieces and finished the embroidery on a brick-work project. Amy has some spool-knitting and njalbinden in the largesse stash. There are a couple of nice bits on sundials in the reports.
Sewing was mostly construction this month, although a few embroidery bits happened…. Arlys’ Assisi-work and flower vine, Peggy’s brickwork, a bit on a sampler, the edging on the table runner, mostly it was mundane, crafting baby toys….
Back so you can see the pattern
Arlys – front
Isabeau
RUnner
Pouch
Arlys’ Assisi-work
A lot of plant and herb starts are getting one and a lot of harvesting and prep has happened there, too.
…and there are always lots of links and funnies in the reports!
Virtual Potluck is next Sunday (10/18) and project days are happening every Sunday.
This month (these are standard meeting times) All are in the Virtual Realm at the current time. …and yes, we’re still trying to keep to the schedule!
Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
Cheese and Wine is an occasional meeting. Watch our Facebook group for notices!
Potluck is usually 3rd Sunday of the month. Virtual potlucks mean that you set up a meal for yourself, in garb, and get pix of whatever. Sometimes that will be the food (get us a recipe or review), sometimes your plateful, sometimes the table, or you.
Here are the direct Portfolio links which have all the past Project Day reports and all the various projects, just whomp through pictures until what you see appeals to you, mouse-hover on the pic and then hit “view” when that shows.
Tourists and plague. Plague and tourists. Summer. <sigh>
With no way to meet in person it’s been difficult to keep enthusiasm up for group projects, so we’re all just working on personal stuff, trying to make things that will enhance our “game” when we can get back together.
Lots of classes have been going on and this weekend is a Grand Ithra that starts in just a few hours from now. It looks fantastic!
Class and cookery links have been the big ones this past month and in some of the reports what we were working on was so much the least of it as to disappear!
2nd batch with one with chopped lil smokies, bottom are fig jam to the left, wild blueberry to the right
Anja and Loren did a lot of cooking this month, mostly learning how to make various tarts, from egg custard, to fruit, to egg and cheese. We’ve had a bunch of new recipes for this, historically based, if not perfectly period. They’re also working on cordials of various sorts and will probably be starting another mead or metheglin this weekend. Butr’d Wortes were another new one this month and we’ve also been following Volker Bach’s translation of a 1460 cookbook by “Master Hans” from 1460.
Cardoons fruit/bud
Herbs are being worked on constantly. Watering and tending are the largest part of it, but harvesting is constantly happening, as well. One crop was the fennel blossoms that went entirely into a batch of sausage put by for winter in the freezer. We’ve tried various recipes with sweet cicely in them
Lettuces, dandelion and sorrel
that aren’t quite what we were aiming for, so a lot of those are still being worked on. A lot of the Butr’d Wortes from the potluck came directly out of our garden-in-buckets at Anja and Loren’s shop. The cardoons had one tiny blossom this year. We’re hoping they’ll do better next year. The various fig trees are doing well, several need to be planted still. We were also gifted a batch of Egyptian Walking Onions that should be getting planted this week.
Loren’s newest needle
Bone needles and little wooden animals get made this time of year, because they don’t take up a lot of space and materials and are something that can be picked up and put down. Likewise many pincushions, only a few of which have actually made it into the reports.
Scissor bob
Anja has been working on an ethnic rag doll. That’s our featured photo, here. Other sewing has been happening. Claire finished a re-make of a fur collar last weekend. Kiss-lock pouches, and various embroideries are going on and some very mundane sewing, as well. Amy is working on her lucet cords.
North garden
This month (these are standard meeting times)
Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
Cheese and Wine is an occasional meeting. Watch our Facebook group for notices!
Potluck is usually 3rd Sunday of the month. In garb (if you can) and bring a dish to share! Next on 12/15, 1/19/20
Winter Feast Date is 2/23/20 Theme is German Renaissance
Done! No thanks to the kitten who was attacking the bottom as I tried it on. I’m definitely going to have to start dressing when I get to day trip events instead of at home.
…and this coming week’s (live by Monday) Activities through 9-6-20 Grand Ithra – https://wp.me/p8ngGY-3GZ
Here are the direct Portfolio links which have all the past Project Day reports and all the various projects, just whomp through pictures until what you see appeals to you, mouse-hover on the pic and then hit “view” when that shows.
Still dealing with the Plague… Back in March people were saying this would be over, long since. Anyone who had read anything about pandemics knew better. No in-person until the end of January 2021, now.
We’re continuing with the Project Days on Sunday, online, and the Virtual Potluck on the 3rd Sunday.
Viscount Edward, the man in red. Photo courtesy of Duchess Dagmar Halvdan
Viscount Sir Edward Zifran Crossed in July. Another piece of our An Tir history is gone.
There have been lots of class links posted each week and lots of cookery. One thing this pandemic has been good for is getting that sort of thing online. Vlogs that put up the occasional link have been doing weekly or even more frequent posts. People that have never posted before are coming up with things. There are several people doing interviews and discussions. It’s great! We haven’t had nearly the time we’d like to go ahead and take all the classes, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t participating!
Fig
Back in June the Hedeby bag with all sorts of goodies went out for the gift exchange the same week as that month’s potluck. Various embroideries and sewing projects have been going since, from a kiss-lock pouch, to a UFO to a sampler of designs copied from period pattern books to a couple of different kinds of dolls. Bone needles and fids have been produced during the last few weeks.
Herbs still has no weekly workshop, so things are proceeding mostly with tending and harvesting. We lost one fig tree, but it was replaced with
several more, and we did lose a number of starts to lack of watering while Anja was sick. The strawberry and raspberries produced well this year and we have a number of plants to get into buckets and pots.
Cookery has been amazing! From the cheese
Bone needles
dumplings, chicken/leek stew, pickled mushroom, Tarte de Bry and renaissance meat pies that we made for the June potluck to the Transylvanian Cherry dish, Stella’s dehydrating garlic, pork meatballs cooked in wine, started a limoncello, made lemon curd and pickled beans. The July potluck included Peggy’s Farts of Portingale plus various pickles, bread, Lemon Curd, the last of the Membrillo, scraped icebox soup, Pork in Sauce Bob, Carrots in butter sauce, Cacik and Egg custard tarts. Garlic cheese got opened and a beer/cheese soup got made….. and there are links and links and links to Vlogs like Jane’s Medieval Kitchen and Tasting History among others.
This month (these are standard meeting times)
Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
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Cheese and Wine is an occasional meeting. Watch our Facebook group for notices!
Potluck is usually 3rd Sunday of the month. In garb (if you can) and bring a dish to share! Next on 12/15, 1/19/20
Winter Feast Date is 2/23/20 Theme is German Renaissance
Here are the direct Portfolio links which have all the past Project Day reports and all the various projects, just whomp through pictures until what you see appeals to you, mouse-hover on the pic and then hit “view” when that shows.
This feels so strange. This past month all the big tourneys that start the season were cancelled. A bunch of the big demos are cancelled. The fairs are all cancelled. It’s like we’re in a holding pattern, but with all that, SCAdians are coming together in different ways.
Classes, dance videos, silly fun. It’s all going up online.
A plate of the chicken and the root veg
People are doing retrospectives of previous events. Get-togethers for sewing or games or crafts are happening. People are finding ways to do courts and vigils and such (there’s an online vigil this weekend) and it’s all the in the virtual realm.
Fruit Cordial
Your scribe doesn’t get to very many events in the flesh, anymore. This has turned into a feast for my Elephant’s Child to learn and play and enjoy with my SCA family. It’s made a rough and scary time bearable.
FInished top with the “mend” bundle
Over this last weeks of reports, there are tons of links to the above. We also have lots of herb/plant stuff in the newsletter, even if the Herb Bunch isn’t able to meet… and we’re working on that. Lots and *lots* of cookery! (One of your scribe’s addictions is to getting together with other cooks!) …which means recipes (stuffed beets?) and even a mini-potluck. Embroidery and sewing are something else we’re doing quite a lot of.
You can see the layers better in this one.
or the month of June and probably July, we’re keeping House stuff in the Virtual Realm. We have a Virtual Weekly Project Day to show off projects and a monthly Virtual Potluck, to show off cookery. Depending on how the plague is progressing we might start doing more mini-potlucks, or project days. Watch the weekly reports for info on these… and if the camera shows up soon, look for House classes!
membrillo and olives top, pork to the left, compost to the right.
This month (these are standard meeting times) Virtual Realm events (potluck, project) are the only ones being held, at the moment
Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm (on hold)
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm (on hold)
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm (Virtual Realm!)
Cheese and Wine is an occasional meeting. Watch our Facebook group for notices! (on hold)
a 3 braid and a 4 braid
Potluck is usually 3rd Sunday of the month. In garb (if you can) and bring a dish to share! Happening in the Virtual Realm only. Look for the event invites 6/21, 7/19, 8/16, 9/20.
Winter Feast may not be happening. Tentative date would be 2/21/21
…and this coming week’s (live by Monday, usually) Activities through 6-14-20 Virtual CoroVestiture – https://wp.me/p8ngGY-3t2
Here are the direct Portfolio links which have
…and decorated!
all the past Project Day reports and all the various projects, just whomp through pictures until what you see appeals to you, mouse-hover on the pic and then hit “view” when that shows.
This has been absolutely nuts with the COVID-19 virus disrupting anything and everything!
Anja came down with it (we’re pretty sure, and so is her doc) the weekend after the feast (2/28) and was one sick puppy for a couple of weeks. Right after she was deemed to be recovered, the Herb Bunch took a trip to
Rizky top left with spaetzel below and peas and carrots to the right.
Eugene to visit Marion’s garden (3/8) and within a week everything began to close down. The March potluck was a virtual one as April’s and May’s are to be. Anja and Loren’s shop closed as of 3/22, so everything else cancelled or was put online. We’re having virtual project days and potlucks at the moment.
As things have closed in and shut down there are more and more online classes and videos and links. That’s what we’ll see until this begins to let
Progress on the footstool cover. The top edge is finished. The bottom one needed to get a wrong line of stitches cut out.
up. …and a few ongoing projects that Anja and Loren are doing….. …and anything contributed on the Project Days and feasts…. and Amor’s bagpipe… omgs, that’s a hoot! (This Sunday’s report…)
Next month still looks to be more of the shelter in place, so everything is on hold. Oh, yes, weekly reports are still coming out! (Links in the usual spot below)
This month (these are standard meeting times)
The rest of the way up.
Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm (On hold)
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm (On hold)
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 5pm (Virtual Realm)
Cheese and Wine is an occasional meeting. Watch our Facebook group for notices! (On hold)
Potluck is usually 3rd Sunday of the month. In garb (if you can) and bring a dish to share! (Virtual Realm) Next is 4/19 and then 5/17.
Winter Feast Date is 2/23/20 Theme is German Renaissance
Here are the direct Portfolio links which have all the past Project Day reports and all the various projects, just whomp through pictures until what you see appeals to you, mouse-hover on the pic and then hit “view” when that shows.
This is not our usual monthly post! We didn’t move to a new blog site. We found a way to keep our current address. 🙂
The House Capuchin Winter Feast is coming up on 2/23! There are still a few spots left if you would like to attend. The event is free, although we will have a donation can out, if you feel so inclined. If you’re interested, comment below or comment on one of the Facebook links and we’ll send you an invite with all the information.
Partly this post is to let folks know that this coming Sunday’s post will come out on time, then a shorter week, probably through Friday post, then another post about the Feast itself…which will probably be on the new blog, address TBA.
In ministerio autem Somnium,
Anja Snihova’, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Tourists and plague. Plague and tourists. Summer. <sigh>
Class and cookery links have been the big ones this past month and in some of the reports what we were working on was so much the least of it as to disappear!
Still dealing with the Plague… Back in March people were saying this would be over, long since. Anyone who had read anything about pandemics knew better. No in-person until the end of January 2021, now.
This is not our usual monthly post! We didn’t move to a new blog site. We found a way to keep our current address. 🙂
House Capuchin 3 