Activities through 5-3-20

Staying at home is getting people really upset, but so many are getting creative instead! The Dance-Off and Glow videos are really amazing. There are tons of class links and some other links in the report this week.

House stuff is pretty quiet at the moment. We’re kinda all tied up in personal stuff. You’d think we’d have more time to play, but no…..

All meetings are on hold for the moment, although Project Day and the Monthly Potluck are being held in the Virtual Realm.

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 happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Virtual Potluck – 5/17
Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/15/21, Theme ??

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here: https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and new one here: https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Happy 55th Birthday, SCA!

Some pictures of the awesome 20th year tapestry from Adiantum.

Misc – Lest we forget…. Absent Friends

Dance Vids – What a lot! Everyone’s hitting full stride! – and we have a page to stash these on. – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-3kC

AnTir! AnTir! AnTir! Dance-off Better When I’m Dancing!

Here comes Caid! Dance-off I’m Still Standing.

Artemisia – Dance-off Gangnam Style!

West Kingdom – Glow up

…and they get weirder! Trimaris (Star Wars, Our House and Never Gonna Give You Up)

…and still weirder! ….this one really made me laugh, though…. the beard…. 🙂 CUC challenge

This is from the Viking Meadhall.

Atlantian Glow Up – Hymn of the High Seas

Ansteorra – Jailhouse Rock

East Kingdom – Dance-Off – Eye of the Tyger

East Kingdom Ethereal Court

Classes –

Duct tape pattern class

Oh, Hel! A development of language class

Starting a fire with flint and steel – https://drive.google.com/file/d/16R2GtFvsg1ZjBGkcWChllnDUoCdGpHPe/view?fbclid=IwAR1osh1rC0e2Dx9ZbA7Uz-w5nAB95HAneHrMMh_tTfTLWLIyQv78Vy9xAUI

Putting on Arrow Heads

What to expect when the Royals are expected. – https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Stm34Oyhd6ILz3XNtXF_gGJuhkaRoZs/view?fbclid=IwAR3-zcJSkNZYxkFVVd3Zas-jkrPFJwRn-nHkHo3kxU4S9XEn2BtOh-Lksdw Video does not start immediately.

History of Goldwork Embroidery

Medieval Trekking Camping Kit

Black Soap (Three videos)

Class Handout – https://www.academia.edu/27757652/To_Make_Black_Sope_a_manual_for_making_soft_soap_from_scratch_?auto=download

Firing raw earthenware with wood, pit fire

Medieval Mayhem, Leather Belt, Leather Pouch, Frame Saw, Sewing Box

Glass Making (ongoing series) – https://www.facebook.com/merced.j.romero/videos/10222309097306054/

Kumihomo – https://moas.eastkingdom.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Quarantine-Kumihimo-v5.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0KbchZyHylu4NmaT0wAiMpnC9bU74HxN_0PY5bJD7sjThnymBkYa6SCPI

Make a Pamphlet Stitch Book

A whole series of horse-related stuff!

My Guitar’s Persona is a Lute

Interview with Sir Ataias, Lion of An Tir

Early Week – We caught up on getting projects cleaned up and then caught up on mundane stuff. A lot of Tuesday was spent writing, as well.

Cookery – Estella says, “I ate some fiddleheads for the first time, after boiling them in lots of water. I had been destroying these ferns that grow all over my yard. If I don’t get sick, they may live and prosper.”
“Picked ’em, boiled ’em in lotsa water for 10 minutes [I started the water heating while I went out in the yard with a bowl and scissors and harvested them], took ’em out of the pot with a slotted spoon and ate them right away with nothing on them. Yummy.”

Caution! Some fiddleheads can make folks sick!

Know which before you start chewing! The following link can help. https://www.fiddleheadheaven.com/pages/fiddleheads?fbclid=IwAR2vKZZ_u97-VJMQxdCVHBPtXNPxAJm_L-zJAfUtEHWkRbo70q1qIpug0d0

The last batch of Capouns in Concys got made Monday evening and consumed in two nights. Anja wanted to try making some cheesy goo, but we didn’t have the ingredients. That’s the biggest problem with sheltering at home…. Potatoes in Chive butter were consumed all week. Friday night was a chicken soup using greens and herbs from the garden pots.

Soup and bread – Lots of harvested greens.

This week’s challenge recipe

Sewing – Progress on the cuff.

Herb Bunch – Indoor plant tending was a lot of the week; moving pots so that plants get better light, trimming dead stuff, staking up floppy things….. Several batches of really old herbs went for compost, too.

Last week – Horseradish and garlics, growing like crazy

This is the big mixed pot, dock rose potato garlics, chive, thyme – You can see where the chives were chopped down for the chive butter. , the dock is going berserk.

Last week – Sweet Cicely on left, chamomile on right.

Project Day – Peggy and Rafny stopped in to the Virtual Project Day.

Peggy Vlach says, “Thought today that I would share what my son just finished. Cut from a maple board, turned, glued on the tips and notchs, finish applied, then hand fletched with sinew. Draw length 36″ (he has long arms) and weight within 10 grains of each other.”

Anja was online and also in a few classes as the afternoon went on, stitching on the cuff while she was in the classes. She did the songwriting class, then puppetry. After she and Loren she worked on the outside plants, especially getting the fig trees planted.

The pot (sorry for the pic quality, low light)

A thistle that’s volunteered. We’re hoping that it will survive long enough to get large enough to eat.

Recipes

Cooking Payne Foudre (something like fondue) – http://greneboke.com/recipes/paynefoundewe.html?fbclid=IwAR3aGn_1FSLiYhfJaXOkcLz21oEBX3MxTDBepXbgj5qteRAcIV9vpuDF_sc

Also a recipe for

Medieval Apple Pie

Miscellaneous pix

The legend of Icarus and his doomed attempt to fly to the heavens is one of the most potent of the cautionary tales of the western ancient world, enjoining mortals not to try too far, lest their human failings plunge them into disaster. It is one of the great stories that references hubris as a concept. That said, within it is the unassailable desire of humans to reach beyond their limits, to go where we have not, and be what we have not. So, while being a story of admonition against failure, it is also a paean of praise to human aspiration, to the desire to become more than we have been. This cameo of white agate was carved in the 1500s in Italy. It measures barely an inch across in both dimensions. The level of artistry is astonishing. Some of those waves are less than I mm across. We are amazing creatures for what we can achieve, and what we will endure in the name of possible achievement.

Attire’s Mind – It is a strange thing that shoes like these, alternately referred to as Poulaines, or Crakows were the go to fashion for over a century. Beginning around 1300 and continuing as a fashion until the mid 1400s, they extended and contracted in length over time, often being stuffed in the toes with various materials for support. In some of the most extreme versions the toe points were tied at the knee with a string so that the over-long toe could not flop under the foot while walking.As is so typical of us, once the fashion faded out it was replaced by its opposite, shoes that were unnaturally wide across the toe and instep. That fashion did not last long and was replaced by a shoe shape much closer to the natural form of the foot.This leather example is part of a large number of items excavated from a site on the Thames River, London.Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Another view

Medieval manuscript — peed on by a cat, then cursed by Scribe, Deventer, ca 1420. Translated: “Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.” Photo: Cologne, Historisches Archiv, G.B. quarto, 249, fol. 68r

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest “The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist” Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1566 Museum link: https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/the-preaching-of-saint-john-the-baptist-4/ Larger image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Younger_Preaching.jpg

Music –

Cariadoc’s Virtual Bardic – http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Bardic_Circle/Virtual_Bardic_Circle.html?fbclid=IwAR32wJ3D0VcMvrOPzNwLZnTTgyTa3zwL4Qh6-bnXPUMpvz93BUm9cBaKw7w

This was written by the same person who taught the songwriting class.

That’s a lot of strings!

Links

Surviving climate change in 6th century Finland – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/04/surviving-climate-change-in-6th-century-finland/

The Art Of The Vikings (BBC Secret Knowledge Documentary) – https://www.thedockyards.com/art-vikings-documentary/

Why So Many Medieval Manuscripts Depict Violent Rabbits? – https://www.sadanduseless.com/rabbits/

Working with Bone Antler and Horn (PDF) – https://halldorviking.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/working-with-bone-antler-and-horn-david-constantine-1-4.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3w2JZamwjuB_IkQTs01j1SusqTHWAXyIBzDTbdi22k6sg0RONwZc2m6yk

A-Z of Tudor Places – YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/HxA25YS47CM

Video Links

Shoes! – https://www.kenstuart.com/shoes/?fbclid=IwAR3UI2frqeE6uUv3VoJE1HNeMNPtzUsm-XmvZ2FLMWqLlMhqz-ccYaLmeWA

X-ray analysis of artifacts from Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose – https://phys.org/news/2020-04-x-ray-analysis-artifacts-henry-viii.html

History of the Home Living Room – 1st 20 minutes

History of the Home Bathrooms – (1st 25 minutes is the period stuff)

History of the Home Bedrooms – (1st 20 minutes)

History of the Home Kitchens (1st 15 minutes is the period stuff)

New and updated pages

– and we have a page to stash the dance vids on. – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-3kC

Funnies

Roses are white Roses are red My rose is Tudor So off with your head

Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 146
ASLIV – 207 plus 4 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort, 9 cheese spice and 10 powder douce packets, 10 tiny bobs, 8 pincushions, 5 pins, 5 snip case w/snips, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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Last updated 5/3/20

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An historical recreation household centered on the Central Oregon Coast (households are not official groups of the Society for Creative Anachronism and do not represent the views or policies of SCA, Inc. )