House Capuchin 3

We’ve talked about doing this Faire for years, but there were always problems. For one thing no branch has wanted to sponsor it, when we’ve asked, so finally this year, House Capuchin decided to go out on a limb and sponsor a demo ourselves. We didn’t say we were SCA members unless we were asked, just talked about the research and the House. So, this weekend was this year’s Faire.

More below….

In other House news

The garden is growing well. Some pictures have been added to the “garlic” report, and more will get added as the season goes on.

A few updates have happened with the Long-Term Projects pages and the Stories, including a few new ones….

The foods that were prepped for the feast-that-didn’t-happen ended up going to the food bank in Waldport.

Kaylee/Gudrun has moved to OK to stay with her brother.

Castle Pundergasp is gradually getting re-organized and getting House property sorted out from the pandemic chaos. We should have a box of largess going out at some point in the fall, but there are bunch of projects that need hands to get them finished. Let me know if you have ideas on how/what to do with those.

The House feast gear is also getting gradually organized. At some point over the next few years Anja and Loren aren’t going to be able to store it all anymore and it’s going to have to go. Things that they spent money on will probably get garage-saled, but offered to House members, and then other SCAdians first. Things that were donated will be gifted on. If there are things you would like to have, let Anja know, or if you know other households or small branches that could use some of the equipment….

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/

Report on Glastonbury/Greenwood Faire – Anja

We had a great weekend at the Glastonbury/Greenwood Faire. Got to talk to lots of people about blackwork and sundials and toys and games and such! We didn’t make it official with any branch, so we didn’t talk SCA much, but had a number of people who recognized us, a couple from the blog, even! You know me and demos… I enjoyed it. 🙂 pix from the Faire!

Friday night we were loading at the shop until nearly 7pm and then 4 cars headed for the site. We ended up not stopping for supper, which was a bad idea for me. First, we set up the pavilions, then tables, then offloaded to the tables and then moved the cars. Next was walls, and while that was going. I found myself some food and ate. At that point most everyone headed home, and Stella and Isabeau headed for the participant camping area and set up their stuff, while Loren got my bed set up and he headed home. I got things to their right places as long as the light lasted, but we never did find a working battery light, so I sat with my tablet and wrote, before lying down. Isabeau came back once her camp was ready and stayed awhile to do some planning for Saturday and then headed out and I went to sleep. I did the usual up and down overnight, but I got enough sleep that I woke fully around 7:30am.

It was a little chilly overnight, but not so bad that I got cold, and the trains that came through at midnight (heading for the plant, farther into town) were *really* loud and a lot of them. One of them started his whistle going about 6 blocks to the west of the park and kept it blowing until he hit the outskirts of the plant. Urf! I spent a little time up reading after that, but I wanted to conserve the tablet battery charge, so it wasn’t as much as usual. Security kept coming by and several times that’s what woke me. I lifted the sidewall and said hi. 🙂 They were non-plussed. 🙂

Isabeau showed up not long after I woke and took my mug to find me some coffee. There wasn’t any creamer or sugar, but I was awake. 🙂 We moved the tables to where they needed to be and added the tableclothes, then started setting up displays. We were ready well before 10 which meant we had a chance to sit and adjust things before we got going and the Travellers showed up. No breakfast, though. We didn’t find the participants inn until we were shutting done on Sunday! So, I nibbled on my dried kiwi (delicious! I had grabbed one of the bags from stock….) then on some of the other snacks in my bag, since I couldn’t get at my stuff in the ice chest, since someone was sitting on it! Isabeau found a nice food vendor that delivered, so she had a pulled pork sandwich and I had a grilled cheese. What a lovely sandwich! It was the two slices from the middle of a large round loaf of sourdough bread and 3 kinds of cheese and it really hit the spot.

We had lot to people to talk to about the displays, some of whom were fascinated by the history and some were just blown away by the amount of work that it all represented. 🙂 Stella wandered in and out, but the rest of us were mostly there all day! She got to see the Seattle Knights and several of the music acts. The Faire was supposed to shut down at 6, but there were few enough left by a little after 5, that they closed early. Not a bad thing at all!

I sabeau “borrowed” a fellow from a nearby booth to set up my bed. I got the blankets and and crawled in and that was all I knew until well past dark. Isabeau kept checking on me in her rounds of socializing, so she stopped by after I woke and we chatted until nearly 10pm. Venus was very bright, startlingly so! Later the not-quite-quarter Moon was even brighter in the same opening in the pavilion walls. Again I was up and down overnight, and read or wrote in the intervals, plus caught up on food, since I could finally access my ice chest. Only problem was that I took a tumble on the way back from the porta-johns and ended up crawling (literally!) back to camp and into bed. It’s only 20 feet, but I was too shaken to try to walk. Not really hurt… bruised a bit, but I’ll be fine. Lifting boxes actually did more damage. 🙂

I woke at 6:30 and told Isabeau I was going back to sleep for awhile and woke again just before 8. She found me coffee again. 🙂 … and then she brought the loveliest breakfast sandwiches from the grilled cheese folks. Fantasic breakfast! I described them to Loren so he can learn how to recreate them. I made sure my ice chest and water were going to be in reach for the day and waited for the Travellers to arrive. The day went well. Again there was lots of interest in the displays and some people even brough chairs to sit and chat, including a young lady who is also from an immigrant family (Swedish, in her case), a history professor, plus several folks who teach history and/or crafts in various schools. There were also a number of embroiderers who wanted to learn about how to do blackwork.

We had grilled cheese for lunch again, and teardown began at 5. By 6 the boxes of the displays were all packed. Coleman (Isabeau’s other half) got there just as we all sat down. Stella’s stuff came down and into her car at that point, and then the displays boxes and she headed on home. We sat for a bit waiting for Loren and then folded walls and tableclothes, gradually clearing the tables and folding them down and loading them as quickly as they were emptied, leaving piles on the remaining flat surfaces. Alexander (Alida’s other half) was helping with that bunch of loads.

The last pavilion came down and the final loads went into our car when Loren got there. Isabeau (since she lives in the valley) went home with only her stuff so she didn’t have to offload at the shop today or drive the extra hour. The sandwich people gave me batch of leftover pulled pork for Loren. We said our goodbyes, drove to the shop and offloaded, then home. I puttered in the garden for awhile, although my in my Renn gown I must have looked interesting. It was spitting a little.

Offloading of the heavy stuff just finished (It’s 3pm pm Monday). The last load (with Stella) ought to get here around 5:30. Stuff is partly put away, but just like I packed all week, I’m going to be unpacking all week!

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Offloading of the rest was done by 6pm and by today (late Tuesday) it’s mostly been put away. There are a few stashes of personal stuff yet, but it’ll happen during the tail end of the week.

Notes for things to fix/change (or not)

The pop-ups that we used worked perfectly well. Ditto the tables.

The walls need to get shower curtain clip hooks added back in with grommets, or we need to find the walls where that’s already been done.

It would be nice to add the Aquitaine Dial and the Star Globe, and maybe an armillary sphere and the Da Vinci Trebuchet to the Sciences display.

Anja needs to dress a Bartholomew Baby, add one grass-stuffed ball to that display, mend the whistling top and get a bit more signage for the toys.

The games need to be sorted back out. When they were packed at the end of Shrewsbury, the folks didn’t bother putting the pieces in bags. Also, the backgammon board and the big Byzantine chessboard got forgotten.

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