All week was focused on the display for the big shindig local to Loren and Anja and the largest chunk of the House members. We only set up the display on Saturday of Beachcomber Days, because it seemed to be too much to set it up and tear down twice and the majority of folks were going to be here on Saturday.
We had an old friend (who is now considered to be a member of the House, or at least a friend of the House) come down from the Madrone area. Clarisse (Callie) and Anja have known each other since not long after Anja started playing with the SCA in An Tir… in Three Mountains. We ended up talking music and catching up on events in our lives since the last time we saw each other and she stayed through most of the weekend.
After prep and cookery, the display got the most attention this week, but we still had a good potluck on Sunday.
We’ve also worked out how to do the feast next February, and it may be both our House Feast and a Handfasting!
- 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
- Next Potluck – 5/20, 6/17, 7/15
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/
Early Week – We spent a lot of time planning and talking to people and digging out various bits and pieces of display stuff. Some planning happened for the potluck, too. …and pickling. The asparagus got done on Friday, so it wouldn’t be too strong (or limp) over the weekend. It’s done by cutting the stems to fit (you can see that it’s bloom end down) adding some garlic cloves that have been split longways and then the pickling broth. It’s then stuck in the fridge. The rest of the asparagus is below with the soup/stew.
Sunday is Father’s Day – this is from Thony Medina posted on Ansteorra Bards
I was taught from earliest age
that these virtues I should seek.
Braveness of heart, clearness of mind,
and graciousness to the weak.
You are no raging bear, my son
no rutting boar of lust.
Be not a slinking serpent
filled with poison and distrust.
I’d see you grow both tall and strong
and for truthful words be famed.
Let honorable actions, words and deeds
bring you, your just acclaim.
This my Father taught to me
when I was at his knee.
Not only by the words he spoke
but the life I saw him lead.
Now my Father is gone to grace
with blade placed in his hands.
His body encased in sacred Cedar
and buried on Holy lands.
I lead the prayers beside his grave
these last word I did say.
” receive him now, beloved God.
for today is Heaven graced.”
When my life comes to its end
and my journey here is done.
These words i hope are said of me
” he was his Father’s son” – Gird Truthsayer ( 969 A.D.) also 6 /13 / 18.
Cookery – Tuesday Night into Wednesday a beef potroast got done. It was fridged, separated from the broth. On Thursday we hard-boiled eggs and did a small batch of kolace and a pair of rye loaves. On Friday the pickled eggs and asparagus pickle happened. The broth was degreased and heated and celery chopped, then rutabaga and carrots and turnip peeled and cut up. Anja’s frugal soul wouldn’t rest until she peeled the asparagus stubs and added them to the soup. The herbs and greens and barley went in last thing at night and it cooked overnight. Saturday morning (after the display set-up) the meat was cut up and de-fatted and added, and then last some instant rice was because it was still a bit thin.
Asparagus stubs – The butt ends of asparagus stems (most in pickle, above) from the grocery tend to be dried out and tough. Some of the not-so-tender stems also end up a touch stringy. This is Anja’s solution.
The Soup
…and somehow it got oversalted and no more pix happened. Well, Saturday evening potatoes got added and it’s palatable, so several of us were eating some on Sunday, period or not. 🙂
Sewing Time – Anja spent a lot of the early week working on the pouch that she started last week (1st pic is last Sunday). First she had to pick out the mistake found on Sunday, but she made another on Tuesday that needs to be unstitched back to, to fix. Later she was attaching frames.
Sewing Time – Saturday
Herb Bunch – The early summer harvest is really overwhelming, at times. Roses, ferns, bracken, cedar and the usual culinary herbs were what we worked on this week. The rose sugar had one or two flowers added each day. On Tuesday some of the herb harvest went into a chicken kiev and a cheese-stuffed chicken breast. Several types of pickles happened during the week (see elsewhere) and more herbs and greens went into the soup that was being worked on all week.
On Wednesday Loren and Anja spent quite awhile in their garden, moving pots to final locations, weeding, moving others out of the way of the mechanical sheep (lawn mower) before they’re moved back…and dumping some pots where the contents were dead. Loren also did some raking up of morning glory, along with other weeds, to trash can rather than letting it get a foothold.
Beachcombers’ Friday – Ended up being mostly cooking, since all but two things had been found. The stew is above in cookery. Callie got in around 11pm.
Beachcombers’ Display – We were working on this all week, finding pieces. Anja’s blackwork display board also needed repair, so that got worked on, but not finished. The clothing hanging across the back of the booth isn’t in this gallery since the pix didn’t work. There were 6 of us involved with setting the booth up, tearing down and talking to folks all day.
Project Day – …Was pretty busy. Callie and Anja went to the local farmer’s market in the
morning and not long after they got back, Jalida showed up and then Isabeau. We had a lot of fun and worked on project and talked and drank cherry tea and snacked until Callie had to head for Southern Oregon, and then Jalida, Isabeau, Loren and Anja sat and talked for a while longer until the food was ready, and then we ate until we nearly popped. Even Isabeau could eat most of the foods! Everyone headed out before dark. We were all tired enough that while projects were going, no pictures happened, except for Anja’s blackwork….
We have next Winter Feast’s specifics worked out as far as whether and when and who and we even sat and talked menus!
Project Day – Potluck menu
Potluck Menu
- Beef/Vegetable/Barley stew (worked on all week)
- Utopenci (pickled sausage) – There was some left!
- Asparagus pickle (made Friday)
- Carrot pickle (made last week)
- Turnip/parsnip pickle (made Tuesday)
- pickled eggs (made Friday)
- Rye bread – Sam (made on Thurs.)
- Lemonade – Jalida –
- Kolace (made Thurs)
- Třešňový chai (cherry tea) – (feast leftovers)
Music – Claude Gervaise Danceries (a quatre parties) Renascença – EGMusic Classic – Álbum: Claude Gervaise : Danceries (A quatre parties) Artista: Ensemble Musica Antiqua: Novus Brass Quartet; Christian Mendoze, cond.
Funnies
Jay (V), Sash (V), Anja, Loren, Isabeau (V), Jalida (V), Callie (V), then Callie, Jay, Jalida, Alexander and Isabeau on the weekend.
Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)
- ASXLVII = 24
- ASXLVIII = 88
- ASXLIX = 794
- ASL = 2138
- ASLI = 731
- ASLII = 304
- ASLIII – 1 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 15 (plus 25 unfinished) pincushion, 2 sewing kits (except for bone needles), varnished stuff (124) 7 snap pouch, one double drawstring pouch, 4 brocade pouch
Total as a Household = 3665 handed off
In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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It’s been another quiet week in Lake Woebegone… wait, wrong program, there… 🙂 It applies to House Capuchin, though. We accomplished some things, mostly cookery and herbal stuff, but the pouch project that Anja’s doing made progress, as did the Hedeby Bag.
Planning is going for the display next weekend, although it’s going to be a little iffy as to how it’s manned.
<<<<<<<< pink towel is so you can see the actual plants! Tomato in the middle, hops on either side. <<<<<<<<
Cookery – …on Tuesday was a soup of harvested greens, lentils, bacon and an onion and carrots purchased at Gathering Together Farm. These were greens that Anja and Loren grew. The carrots were absolutely delicious and tender! It was almost a shame to put them into the soup, so Anja snagged enough to fill a small canning jar for pickling. She and Loren also ate several, as they were. 🙂
took Anja several hours of washing greens and chopping to get all the ingredients into the crockpot. She started with lentils and water and then about 1/4 cup of leftover rice. Next was dried mushrooms, caraway, mustard seed and wasabi powder. That’s when the greens started being hacked up. After all those were in, the carrots and carrot greens were next, then the onion, then the bacon ends. It was stirred every hour for the first 4 and then sat from 3am-6am when they it got fridged …and the chives got parked on top. .
Lots of pix from Egil’s! We chose a few of folks we know and some of the notables.
display (and to display on, chairs, tables, etc), what we need are a couple of extra bodies to help with manning the display during the day, since us locals are all going to be working hard. (It’s a crazy weekend….) We will feed people during the day and have bathroom and such space accessible. It’s a great spot, just two doors down from the headquarters of the event. The parade goes *right* in front of us and there are a ton of activities in town all weekend. There’s no real place to set up an eric (not safely) although if there’s interest, I’ll see what I can work out with the committee.
All meetings this week at the regular times.
Early Week – Tourist season is starting, so Loren and Anja’s time is limited and there wasn’t much this week with the holiday. Isabeau is still working on that mundane dress and it’s awfully pretty. Anja saved some Egil’s pix (gallery below) and her blackwork from the shirts can finally be shown, since the Princes wore them at Egil’s.
Cookery – Tuesday night was cookery night. Anja fried up the last of the herb fritters and set up cabbage rolls from the filling that didn’t get used at the feast. Those got cooked on Wednesday and turned out to be pretty tasty, although we probably won’t use the bok choy again. It went a little bitter. On Sunday the tvarog got used to make a dumpling dough (below).
oregano were harvested early in the week and ferns and dandelions transplanted later. Quite a lot of greens got eaten during the week, since Anja has not just herbs, but sorrel, arugula, dandelion and sweet cicely planted and has been harvesting plantain and dandelions all over the place.
Meetings at the regular times this week.
So the two batches of utopenci got done last week, along with the tvarog and the scalded milk cheese during the week before. On Sunday evening (after the end of Project Day) a big spiral-sliced ham got separated into ham for broth (for bean pottage), ham for potted ham and ham for just eating. One batch of ham broth (for pottages) happened that night and then a 2nd over Monday evening into Tuesday. During Tuesday evening, pickled eggs and potted ham got finished and then a batch of sweet and sour cabbage.
Maybe some year we’ll have interesting weeks again. 🙂 Otoh, “interesting” can be a problem all its own! This one was quiet. Some projects got finished (Tinkle Loom and some embroidery) some cookery got done (tvarog and utopenci and ham prep), but otherwise quiet….
Pickling broth and a batch of utopenci (the Czech pickled sausage >>>> ) happened on Tuesday and Sunday.
Project Day – Amy stopped by on her way from errands to chores and dropped off the pouch that she made and an extra piece of fabric. Loren had made bread, so he was cleaning up in the back. Photos were next, and then tinkle loom photos, and then the herb photos.
It turns out that 1 egg, 1/4 cup cream of wheat (farina) and 2 tsp olive oil, with a shake of salt and two shakes of dill is an ok recipe. The dumplings boiled in broth for just under 20 minutes and were kinda damp. (Instructions said to do that with even smaller dumplings. What are they smoking?) The 2nd batch we used a duck egg and no oil, and boiled for 10 and that turned out well. 3rd set turned out, “juuuuuuuuuuuuust right: That was 1 duck egg, 3/8 of a cup of farina. After sitting for 20 minutes it set up to a consistency that allowed it to be rolled into balls. They were chewy, but not too hard. …and boiled for 10, again.
A poem about the day:
Eleanor gave several of us a tour of her beautiful garden and few us bits and pieces of herbs.
We invited a number of folks to come visit us at our Project Day and then headed home and had a good trip back, with Taylor, Rosie and me all falling asleep!
…but don’t count a week over until it’s over! It was another quiet week until the weekend. 🙂 Bits and pieces were accomplished as usual, but then we had some new people who came in both Saturday and Sunday to talk.
Harvest was in the morning. The soup got made during the day but took way long to cook. Loren made bread and we had fried rice for lunch and then baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, chives and tvarog. Nick loves the tvarog, so we’re going to make some more in the next couple of weeks.
Just keeping on keeping on… more cookery, more embroidery, more tinkle loom, fun pix and an interesting take on knighthood. Meetings this week at the normal time/place, although we’re talking about trying mozzarella again, so watch the House facebook group….
Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
<<<<<<<<<< Sewing – Anja worked on this a little each day. This pic was taken at the beginning of Saturday, so the 
cumulative stitching of the week that far.
Anja – “Leslie picked me up at about 11:15. She and Tempus loaded my walker while I was greeted by Bella (Leslie’s lovely little dog) and then we headed over to pick up Rayna, then out 34.
20 Rules for a Knight
Humility – Never announce that you are a knight, simply behave as one. You are better than no one, and no one is better than you.
Pride – Never pretend you are not a knight or attempt to diminish yourself because you deem it will make others more comfortable. We show others the most respect by offering the best of ourselves.
We must live and work together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Courage – Anything that gives light must endure burning.
Justice – There is only one thing for which a knight has no patience: injustice. Every true knight fights for human dignity at all times.
Dedication – Ordinary effort, ordinary result. Take steps each day to better follow these rules. Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer.
Equality – Every knight holds human equality as an unwavering truth. A knight is never present when men or women are being degraded or compromised in any way, because if a knight were present, those committing the hurtful acts or words would be made to stop.
Death – Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us. A knight concerns himself with gratitude for the life he has been given. He does not fear death, for the work one knight begins, others may finish.
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